{"id":11584,"date":"2018-09-10T20:31:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2018-09-10T20:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T03:38:50","slug":"writing-party-get-your-toy-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2018\/writing-party-get-your-toy-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Party: Get Your Toy Elected President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On July 13, 2018, we had a special creative writing and filmmaking workshop for kids between the ages of 5 and 8, to make campaign videos about getting their toys elected president! <\/p>\n

The idea came from the book I’ve published with lesson plans to do writing workshops with primary grade kids: 36 Workshops to Get Kids Writing From Aliens to Zebras<\/a>. In it, you’ll find my lesson plan for this writing party and the handouts to supplement this lesson.<\/p>\n

First we read the book “President Squid<\/a>” by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Sara Varon. Then we watched a couple of funny campaign videos on YouTube, and brainstormed a campaign video using a favorite toy as the candidate. We filmed our toys talking about why they should be president, using iPads with the iClips app. It was very easy and smooth to film and edit. Parents took short clips of their kids acting these commercials out, and then combined the clips together in the app to make their films. <\/p>\n

I made a film of my own to give kids some ideas for how to use the props or sample arguments to make. Is my video amazing?… Of course not. \ud83d\ude42 That was the point–I wanted to make something very simple that a five or six year old could make. <\/p>\n