Admission is free. Pippi & Thelonius by Harrell Fletcher. Image below is by Phillipp Ottendörfer.
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Children's Films | Kino für Kinder
Admission is free. Pippi & Thelonius by Harrell Fletcher. Image below is by Phillipp Ottendörfer.
The pineapple bird
Ooh, ok, I think this is a pretty good one. We found a video on youtube called Jim Henson on Making Muppets, 1969, from Iowa Public Television. Jim Henson shows children how to make puppets from household objects like socks, potatoes, spoons and tennis balls. It is great!
Augs and I watched it together and then gathered up some materials and made a handful of puppets and little movies.
The dish mop lion, Auggie was very excited to make a pink scarf for the lion because "he was cold".
Wooden spoon puppet.
The pineapple bird. I put on the eyes and Auggie did the nose with a sharpie. By the way, he was horrified by the feeling of his finger in the potato, so we poked a pencil in the bottom and he could hold that instead. I don't have a picture, though — this is my finger. The pineapple bird is the only one who received a name from the Augs, he is special.
November: Watch something fun
Well, finally, the end of our November week: a lazy post for a lazy activity. Sometimes it's time to curl up somewhere warm and watch something fun: Barbapapa.
The Wouldbegoods (updated)
The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit (of The Railway Children fame).
After getting into their elders' bad books and being sent to stay in the country 'to learn to be good', the Bastable children and their two friends Daisy and Denny formed themselves into the Society of the Wouldbegoods.
With the best of intentions they set out each day to be helpful to others, but always became involved in further trouble, as, for instance, when their pet goat did acrobatics on the kitchen dresser.
The Wouldbegoods is not available online yet, but here is a free ebook of The Railway Children . Highly recommended in any form.
Update: Thanks to Sharilyn from lovelydesign for these two great suggestions:
— You can find a copy of The Wouldbegoods from abebooks.com, here. It is part of the Treasure Seekers series.
— There is an annotated and illustrated version of The Railway Children from Usborne books that you can find here.
And an update from us, too:
— Watch The Railway Children (1970) right on youtube.
After getting into their elders' bad books and being sent to stay in the country 'to learn to be good', the Bastable children and their two friends Daisy and Denny formed themselves into the Society of the Wouldbegoods.
With the best of intentions they set out each day to be helpful to others, but always became involved in further trouble, as, for instance, when their pet goat did acrobatics on the kitchen dresser.
The Wouldbegoods is not available online yet, but here is a free ebook of The Railway Children . Highly recommended in any form.
Update: Thanks to Sharilyn from lovelydesign for these two great suggestions:
— You can find a copy of The Wouldbegoods from abebooks.com, here. It is part of the Treasure Seekers series.
— There is an annotated and illustrated version of The Railway Children from Usborne books that you can find here.
And an update from us, too:
— Watch The Railway Children (1970) right on youtube.
The Red Balloon
"What does it take to entertain a child? It doesn't take 3D or CGI or talking animals or pop songs or celebrity voiceovers. Children's pleasures are much simpler. The Red Balloon, a 34-minute film by Albert Lamorisse, is a masterpiece of simplicity." —AO Scott., New York Time Critics Picks.
You can find a copy for yourself online SFMoMA or watch it on YouTube.
For more information, see Janus Films (and find out more about the lesser known White Mane, as well).
R & J collections
We have new activities to package and post, but in the meantime we thought we would show you this surprisingly accurate portrait of us. In fact, here are some samples from our collections...
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