My favorite Halloween book is Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman. I don't usually mess with a great book but this title would work very well as a participation story. Children could be the characters and the audience would contribute the key words to the story. The librarian would direct the action and narrate. With this in mind, I came up with -
Title:
Simple props to designate the characters:
Dialog cue cards for the audience:
Big Pumpkin (in progress - I'll post about how I put it together later -waiting for the paint to dry):
The reward:
All the clip art is from Microsoft Publisher.
Now that I have these simple props, I plan to tell this story at my Halloween Family Story Time.
Title:
Simple props to designate the characters:
Dialog cue cards for the audience:
Big Pumpkin (in progress - I'll post about how I put it together later -waiting for the paint to dry):
The reward:
All the clip art is from Microsoft Publisher.
Now that I have these simple props, I plan to tell this story at my Halloween Family Story Time.
I love that you adapted this for a participatory story! I bet your group had a great time with it.
ReplyDeleteI just learned this story and was excited to tell it. We went to the pumpkin patch this week and it was a great time to recruit some parents to help. I also made picture cards of the characters to wear around our necks. You can check out our video at http://strongstart.blogspot.com/2011/10/pumpkin-patch-storytime.html
ReplyDeleteI look forward to checking out the rest of your blog.