The books Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Pickles to Pittsburgh by Ron and Judi Barrett were having a revival, and I wanted to do a program celebrating them.
The complete set of both titles was republished in 2009 and the movie
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was released later that year.
My kids grew up with these books and we loved them along with
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing. The big problem that I had with
the books was that the illustrations were too small for a large group.
To solve issue I used a real view overhead projector called the Elmo Document Camera.
I was able to project the book's illustrations while reading it. The kids loved it and I solved the image problem. I have used this for other program and event needs.
Today, if I had to do it again I would scan the images and put them in a slide show
and project them from the laptop with an In-Focus projector.
The craft was to recreate the city and food of both books. I included stiff cardboard for the children
to make buildings with windows and doors, signage and helicopters on toothpicks
for Chewandswallow. There were mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, pickles and,
of course, meatballs.
The kids had fun with their creations and enjoyed snacking too.
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