Saturday, November 8, 2008

Book #11: Lions at Lunchtime

The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to Africa to solve another riddle!

For this meeting, I made a crossword puzzle using Discovery's Puzzlemaker website. We all did the crossword (clues and answers derived from the book!) together, and then some chose to do a word search also created with Puzzlemaker.

The craft we did was a clothespin lion. The idea was derived from this craft idea for lion and lamb note holders.

All of the supplies we used are available at your local craft store, and they were:

- straight, non-clipping clothespins (2 per kid)
- heavy stock paper out of which I pre-cut lion heads (1 per kid)
- googly eyes (2 per kid)
- colored pencils and markers (to draw in faces)
- yellow yarn (to create mane)
-glue (to put it all together)

1. Draw a face on the lion.
2. Glue on googly eyes and mane if you wish.
3. Glue the clothespins on to the back of the lion head so that the "legs" of the clothespins are lined up and the lion could reasonably be expected to stand.

Join us on Thursday, November 13th for the next Magic Tree House Book Club, featuring book #12, Polar Bears Past Bedtime. Don't forget to register!

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