sail in a sieve for jokes at the library! the Oak Park Public Library invited Buttons & Figs in for a podcast petting zoo, where families could listen together to other great podcasts for kids….and to record a few jokes from Michael Dahl’s joke books. Check them out! be sure to sign up for summer reading at a Public Library near you!
#18 – explore – discover more podcasts
here’s a downloadable brochure with just a few great kids’ podcasts and some help to get you listening today! listening also counts toward summer reading! visit your library!
check out even more great podcasts @ app.kidslisten.org
#17 – Crazy Cars
rev up that sieve and #hittheroad with the buttons & figs kids as they share “Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems” by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, pictures by Jeremy Holmes. Can you design a crazy nonsense car of your own?!
#16 – Gertrude is Gertrude
sail in a sieve, because, as everyone knows, sieve is a sieve is a sieve is a sieve…..listen to the newly discovered audio of some of the most famous artists of the 20th Century visiting with GERTRUDE STEIN!
#15 – Seven Wonder Flags – Design Thinking
sail in a sieve to Seven Wonder Flags. WATCH and listen to the Kit-Kats use design thinking to create their own amusement park!
7 Wonder Flags (Buttons & Figs Podcast) from Tim Kaegi on Vimeo.
#15 – Seven Wonder Flags
sail in a sieve to Seven Wonder Flags! listen in as the Kit-Kats, Mr. Kaegi’s 2nd grade class in oak park, il design and make an amusement park! be sure and watch the video too!
#14 – Blackhawk nonsense
sail in a sieve to the land of Blackhawk nonsense! these 2nd graders have a little fun with the highlights of their school year….enjoy some fushi-sushi and flying fish tales as an army of buttons & figs guys sing along with the smurfs!
#10 – make
there once was a fig in the park
who stole buttons just for a lark
he went running away
yelling, “hip-hip-hooray!”
that nonsense fig from the park
lollygag of limericks! listen! episode #10!
extra – happy valentine’s day
here’s a little nonsense extra, extra….an interview with Patrick the Squink. apparently, his favorite holiday is valentine’s day! capers anyone?!
#13 – Rube Goldberg Machines
Sail in a sieve with the Buttons & Figs kids to the land of Rube Goldberg Machines! Kids find inspiration from Rube Goldberg’s cartoons and design a couple of wacky machines of their own. Can you take a guess at how many cartoons Rube Goldberg drew during his lifetime?! Take a listen to find out the answer to this question and more!