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What=B9s Cooking Ideas Three stones: _Stone Soup_ is a perfect recipe for libraries. Consider sponsoring a book and/or recipe exchange Signs for variety of sections: Recipes for success (research or self-help) Food for thought (philosophy or fiction) What=B9s eating you? (science or psychology) Measure for measure (math & science) Sievilizations (history) Just desserts (mind candy) Pullet surprise ... in the poultry section Designate one day per grade level and cook for them: begin with an explanation wash hands and prepare whatever our cooking dish is while it=B9s baking, etc. I read the story that goes with the food pass out napkins, etc. while dish cools then enjoy usually takes a minimum of 45 minutes per class helpful to have a few volunteers Display books that feature food in the story and have real food or art=20 type facts of it. I keep a list of books that have recipes in them under the subject=20 heading RECIPES - Fiction.=20 A library tea party featuring Alice and her friends (the Mad Hatter,=20 Cheshire Cat) American Girls collection has cookbooks for each historical girl. Do a=20 bit of historical cooking. Felicity has a video on a colonial tea=20 party. We shared it and then announced a tea party to be held. Ladies=20 came from the homemakers group dressed in period costumes and shared=20 various poetry, stories or family items. Period food and beverages=20 were served. Another Mad Hatter Tea Party idea had children making humorous hats=20 based on Alice in Wonderland. The students wore the hats to the tea=20 party. Highlight different types of cookbooks in your library, especially=20 those for special diets. You can spotlight different cuisines -=20 Italian, Chinese, etc. Maybe if you=B9re brave, you can have a cooking=20 demonstrations or two. One person wrote: Two years ago we ran a similar theme. We had a fancy=20 feast in the cafeteria one day. We offered many ideas to teacher to=20 use recipes associated with books. A lot of teachers did cooking in=20 the classroom. We had a day to dress up as a chef. We had the older=20 grades find recipes for the countries they were reporting on at the=20 time. You could use books like Strega Nona, Cloudy with a chance of=20 Meatballs, The Bread Winner. Be sure to make a big deal about how=20 USUALLY we don=B9t have food in the library, but this is an exception.=20 There is a cute story by Frank Asch call Popcorn, one by Tomie dePaola=20 called The Popcorn Book and another one called Pop Corn and Ma=20 Goodness. If you cooked your popcorn in on of those hot air corn=20 poppers your school would smell of it all week. =B3Things are poppin=B9 i= n=20 the library!=B2 Visual picture recipe for a successful library including: necessary=20 ingredients in text and with pictures, then the =8Cmixing or procedure.=B9= =20 (should make a good poster or display.) Good cooking music like =B3Someone=B9s in the kitchen with Dinah.=B2 One person wrote: several years ago we did =B3You never know what=B9s=20 POPPIN=B9 in the LMC.=B2 We used popcorn as our theme and all-week=20 activities included: popcorn sculptures, voting of POPular books,=20 popcorn =8Cpop=B9 quiz, popcorn games, popcorn trivia. We used the=20 school=B9s large popcorn popper that is used at games and we made enough=20 small bags of popcorn for each student in our school (600.) It was=20 very successful and enjoyed by everyone. LMC assistants decided on=20 prizes to award for trivia, games and contests that we had. Prizes can=20 be a bookmark, sucker or sticker.=20 Thanks to everyone who responded. These are some great ideas. Sue Sheil Franklin Elementary School Manitowoc WI=20 smsheil@lakefield.net