Remember, I offered these FREE to any book group reading Starry River of the Sky? Well, so many people ordered them that I had to get a new batch of stickers! Order yours now (and they're still FREE) while the supply lasts!
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Monday, November 19, 2012
on my desk monday
It's a re-order of my Starry River of the Sky glow-in-the-dark stickers!
Remember, I offered these FREE to any book group reading Starry River of the Sky? Well, so many people ordered them that I had to get a new batch of stickers! Order yours now (and they're still FREE) while the supply lasts!
Remember, I offered these FREE to any book group reading Starry River of the Sky? Well, so many people ordered them that I had to get a new batch of stickers! Order yours now (and they're still FREE) while the supply lasts!
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Glow-in-the-dark sticker giveaway and event kit!
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| Your group--classroom, book club, reading group can order these glow-in-the-dark stickers FREE! |
These stickers are part of this event kit that goes with the book. Have your own Starry River of the Sky Book Party! With this event kit readers can listen to Chinese legends and then, marked with the symbol of power, save the earth!
ABOUT THE EVENT
Many of the stories tell of why the sun and moon hang in the sky and what can happen when their balance is disturbed. This interactive read-aloud and follow-up game features one of those ancient stories and rewards readers with a glow-in-the-dark sticker that can represent for them the sun, the moon, and how their places in the sky effect our traditional stories and the story of The Starry River of the Sky.
Many of the stories tell of why the sun and moon hang in the sky and what can happen when their balance is disturbed. This interactive read-aloud and follow-up game features one of those ancient stories and rewards readers with a glow-in-the-dark sticker that can represent for them the sun, the moon, and how their places in the sky effect our traditional stories and the story of The Starry River of the Sky.
The Interactive Read-Aloud allows you to read aloud from the first ancient story told in the book while using the whole audience for sound effects. The script will also prompt you to use members of the audience and some simple props to tell the story of a hero who shoots multiple suns from the sky.
The Game allows all the attendees to participate post-reading in a simple tossing of a rice-filled arrow onto a sun target. They can be rewarded with glow-in-the-dark stickers that you can order free of charge. You can order the glow-in-the-dark stickers from www.CuriousCityDPW.com (while supplies last!)
Download the EVENT KIT!
The NOXIOUS TOAD:A Craft Activity
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| Make a toad lantern! |
THE NOXIOUS TOAD
Rendi is as confused as the reader when the toad he has found in the well is welcomed by old Mr. Shan and Madame Shan like an old friend. The sweet and clever toad proves to be a friend to Rendi as well when he frightens off the kidnappers who believe the small toad to be the Noxious Toad that will fill the air with its poison and kill anyone near. The kidnappers are tricked because the toad has been fed fireflies and glows from within (pages 171-184). The idea for feeding the toad the fireflies must have come from Madame Chang's wonderful trick of gathering fireflies in silk to make glowing lanterns on a dark night.
(special thanks to Curious City for creating this)
To celebrate, Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, I designed a Bunny Lantern. Use that craft if you'd like to make the softer representation of the moon. If, however, you want to scare your neighbors with the sight of the Noxious Toad or charm them with the sweet toad of Mr. Shan whose belly is filled with fireflies, you can follow these suggested instructions HERE.
DAY OF FIVE POISONS: An Art Activity
The Starry River of the Sky opens on The Day of Five Poisons, one of the most dangerous days in ancient China. The day was observed on the fifth day of the fifth month and marked the beginning of summer when villagers were most vulnerable to poisonous animals, insects, and disease.
Right after Rendi arrives in the Village of Clear Sky, we see Master Chao paint Peiyi's forehead with wang, a symbol of power, to protect her from this unlucky day. Master Chao uses wine mixed with realgar or arsenic. Realgar/arsenic is a poison and the villagers believed you needed poison to fight poison.
Poisonous Animals
The five poisonous animals were the snake, the scorpion, the centipede, the spider, and the toad. If you lived amongst these poisonous animals in the summer, you too might want to wear protection like all Chinese children did on this day. The adults took their protection in a more potent way by drinking the wine with a touch of poison in it. You get a sense of how much these animals were feared when you see how easy it was to trick Rendi's kidnappers into believing that the Noxious Toad was after them.
The Tiger
It was not just Chinese children in ancient China that wore the character for power or wang on their foreheads. Tigers were believed to be the most powerful creatures of the animal kingdom, and in paintings and drawings of tigers, the black marks on their foreheads often formed the character, wang.
Another common protection from the Five Poisons were charms that were hung about your neck or nailed to the your house. If you search online for images of "Five Poison Charms," you can see how many of the circular charms show a tiger chasing a snake, a scorpion, a centipede, a spider, a toad, or all five. Yes, tigers were also very dangerous to villagers in Ancient China, but maybe like the arsenic that fought poison with poison, the tiger pit dangerous animal against dangerous animal.
Your Own Five Poison Charm
Create your own Five Poison Charm by drawing a tiger chasing a snake, a scorpion, a centipede, a spider, or a toad (or all five) in the circle template found HERE. (Don't worry about your animals looking perfect. Remember that charms were about symbolism. Your tiger need only resemble a tiger to work!) Cut out your charm when you are finished, cut a hole in the middle of it, thread the hole with string or yarn, and hang it on a doorknob or around your neck for protection.
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