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By: Patrick Girouard,
on 3/4/2016
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By: Phyllis Harris,
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By: bookkm,
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Today, I am sharing books about fireflies with the children at the Allentown Public Library. And we will be making this Karen Maurer original craft: Bugs in a "Jar". (I decided to do away with the crumpled paper at the bottom of the cup. It's distracting.)
I got my inspiration for this craft from an article I read, suggesting that children could use clear plastic take-out cups and the lids as bug collecting "jars". That's a lot safer than the canning jars I used as a kid. One trip on the pavement and there would be shards of glass everywhere. And take-out lids already have holes punched in them for the straw.
To make my "bugs" glow, I used glow in the dark pony beads, available online at Oriental Trading. Any pony bead will make a bug and you can get a bag of 100 hundred beads for $1 at Dollar Tree. The glow-in-the-dark beads go with my firefly theme.
The wings are scraps of tulle. I bought mine at Dollar Tree but any craft store has rolls of the stuff for cheap. Other possible materials for wings include tissue paper, which is a little delicate, and scraps of thin fabric.
My take-out lids were given to me by the good people at Panera on Cedar Crest in Allentown. If you are doing this with just your family, save your take out cups and lids and the craft is truly cheap.
It's Thursday and that means I should talk about Storytelling. One of the best types of storytelling is when people share stories of "when I was little". So instead of featuring a storyteller or a book, I challenge my readers to tell stories of summer nights "when I was little."
When I was little, we chased fireflies, counting them up and trying to outdo each other. The smaller kids would swing their hands through the air and shout out numbers, whether they caught a bug or not. There is nothing worse to a little kid than not being able to keep up with the older kids.
How do I know my little brothers and sisters counted pretend fireflies? Well, when they finally caught a lightning bug - that's what we called them - they got so excited, they gave themselves away.
We lived near a park - the picnic kind of park - and there were perhaps six lone streetlamps casting our shadows long and dark on the grass. The street lamps didn't put out enough light to discourage the lightning bugs.
We ran outside in our pajamas and in our bare feet and we sang snatches of songs. My sister and I liked to pretend we could speak other languages by singing "O Sole Mio" as loud as we could and then gibberish to the rest of the tune. We only did this at night. Night makes anything seem possible.
Those memories are not really a "story" but they were fun to share with you. Catch some real lightning bugs tonight. Check out Firefly.org for information about these amazing little lightbulbs.
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By: Patrick Girouard,
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By: Phyllis Harris,
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By: bookkm,
on 7/5/2012
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I got my inspiration for this craft from an article I read, suggesting that children could use clear plastic take-out cups and the lids as bug collecting "jars". That's a lot safer than the canning jars I used as a kid. One trip on the pavement and there would be shards of glass everywhere. And take-out lids already have holes punched in them for the straw.
To make my "bugs" glow, I used glow in the dark pony beads, available online at Oriental Trading. Any pony bead will make a bug and you can get a bag of 100 hundred beads for $1 at Dollar Tree. The glow-in-the-dark beads go with my firefly theme.
The wings are scraps of tulle. I bought mine at Dollar Tree but any craft store has rolls of the stuff for cheap. Other possible materials for wings include tissue paper, which is a little delicate, and scraps of thin fabric.
My take-out lids were given to me by the good people at Panera on Cedar Crest in Allentown. If you are doing this with just your family, save your take out cups and lids and the craft is truly cheap.
It's Thursday and that means I should talk about Storytelling. One of the best types of storytelling is when people share stories of "when I was little". So instead of featuring a storyteller or a book, I challenge my readers to tell stories of summer nights "when I was little."
When I was little, we chased fireflies, counting them up and trying to outdo each other. The smaller kids would swing their hands through the air and shout out numbers, whether they caught a bug or not. There is nothing worse to a little kid than not being able to keep up with the older kids.
How do I know my little brothers and sisters counted pretend fireflies? Well, when they finally caught a lightning bug - that's what we called them - they got so excited, they gave themselves away.
We lived near a park - the picnic kind of park - and there were perhaps six lone streetlamps casting our shadows long and dark on the grass. The street lamps didn't put out enough light to discourage the lightning bugs.
We ran outside in our pajamas and in our bare feet and we sang snatches of songs. My sister and I liked to pretend we could speak other languages by singing "O Sole Mio" as loud as we could and then gibberish to the rest of the tune. We only did this at night. Night makes anything seem possible.
Those memories are not really a "story" but they were fun to share with you. Catch some real lightning bugs tonight. Check out Firefly.org for information about these amazing little lightbulbs.
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By: Mary Lee,
on 6/24/2011
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Flickr Creative Commons Photo by davedehetre Hundreds of Fireflies
BY BRAD LEITHAUSER
Sky yet violet,
shadows collecting
under the trees
and first stars wan
as night birches, the fireflies
begin: from the first,
the night belongs
to them.
Darkness brightens
them: from our screened porch
we watch their blinkings
sharpen: three, four of them
lighten nightfall of all
solemnity; ten or twelve
and the eyes are led
endlessly astray;
and in deeper night
it’s twenty, fifty, more—a number
beyond simple reckoning—
and still they keep
coming.
shadows collecting
under the trees
and first stars wan
as night birches, the fireflies
begin: from the first,
the night belongs
to them.
Darkness brightens
them: from our screened porch
we watch their blinkings
sharpen: three, four of them
lighten nightfall of all
solemnity; ten or twelve
and the eyes are led
endlessly astray;
and in deeper night
it’s twenty, fifty, more—a number
beyond simple reckoning—
and still they keep
coming.
I didn't experience fireflies until I grew up and moved to Ohio. It's too dry for them back home. I would have loved to have met them as a child.
It's magical the way the light goes out of the summer sky and becomes condensed in those small green flashing lights that lift up out of the grass. They keep us grounded in the mystery that exists before our very eyes. Everyday magic. Everyday mystery. All we have to do is pay attention; it's there all the time.
Carol has the round up this week at Carol's Corner, and she's also got a poem about paying attention to the ordinary beauty of the world.
Carol is the last blog on the current round up schedule. However, I believe in the power of three. This is the third week I'm putting out the call for round up hosts and I believe that we will have a full schedule by the end of the weekend! Check it out the weeks that have been taken and choose your week!
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By: ARIS,
on 6/18/2011
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It's so true about the "when I was little" stories. Those are by far the most interesting ones because they're true. I always love to hear about peoples past. Right now I'm reading about Julie Andrews childhood and it's fascinating!
Thanks, Michele. What book are you reading? Julie Andrews is one of my all time favorite actress/singer/authors/people.
Thanks, Michele. I meant to reply to you and put in a comment instead. Oh well. I LOVE Julie Andrews. Are you reading a memoir or a biography?
Oh man did you bring back memories of our gang of younguns catching them at Nana's! Thanks! :)