Thank YOU for listening, sharing, creating, recording, and loving nonsense. Here’s a little look at the nonsense we made together. Beau—-oootiful Soo—oop, I say. Well, actually the Mock Turtle said it first.
#21 – Funny Girls – Interview with Betsy Bird
sail in a sieve to the land of Funny Girls! Our funny girls interview the funny librarian, author, and fellow podcaster, Betsy Bird. Be sure to check out “Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. EVER.” edited by Betsy Bird, a fabulously funny middle school anthology with more than 25 female authors.
#20 – make a little nonsense – tongue twisters
listen to episode #20 and then try tinkling with this Tongue Twisters Activity too!
#20 – Tongue Twisters at the Library
sail in a sieve, with this last bit of summer nonsense, back to the Oak Park Public Library! using inspiration from “Dr. Knickerbocker and Other Rhymes”, a Canadian collection of over 100 rhymes, riddles, jump rope rhymes, taunts, tongue twisters and nonsense verse, selected by David Booth, illustrated by Maryann Kovalski, the kids at the library wrote some great tongue twisters…try saying them faster than your friends!
#19 – Math Nonsense
sail in a sieve with twin 8 year old hosts Luke and Oliver….or is it Oliver and Luke?! to the land of Math Nonsense! They share some crazy math jokes and wacky math verse from Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s book “Math Curse”. Does tunafish + tunafish = fournafish?!
#18 – Jokes at the Library
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.