Stop your dilly-dallying and jump aboard….we’re sailing our sieve to the land of Ricochet Words! On this episode we’ll explain how to play with ricochet words, we’ll stop in to visit Shim-Sham the Shoe Man and our Buttons & Figs kids travel from Wibbleton to Wobbleton, making up their own ricochet words along the way. Subscribe to play with words at www.buttonsandfigs.com

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Can you figure out the order to this classic Rube Goldberg machine?  make your own machine and share with friends.  see if they can figure it out!

We’re going on an ONOMATOPOEIA hunt! We can’t go over it, we can’t go under it….I guess we’ll have to go through it! On this episode Buttons & Figs is going to sail in our sieve to the land of onomatopoeia words. Hear excerpts of the great Michael Rosen’s “Going on a Bear Hunt,” learn the meaning and how to spell this crazy word, and hear some Buttons & Figs kids come up with some great onomatopoeia words. Squawk. Squelch. Burp. Excuse us!