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Texas Reading Club Manual 115
Directions
In advance, purchase ice cream cones. The sugar cones are a bit sturdier but either kind will
work as long as the cones have a point. Place a cone upside down in the bowl so that the point
of the cone is standing up. Let the kids spread icing over the cone and decorate it with sprinkles.
Enjoy eating the hat as you celebrate!
Games and Activities
Play the game “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” with the children. Oriental Trading Co.,
www.orientaltrading.com, sells an inexpensive set if you do not have a local party supply store.
Videos/DVDs/Films
If you have public performance rights, show these videos and DVDs, or segments of them, to
the children. Otherwise, display them for home use.
“Happy Birthday to Blue!” on Blue’s Clues. Blue’s Birthday. (38 minutes)
“Super Silly Fiesta!” on Dora the Explorer: Super Silly Fiesta! (49 minutes)
“El baile del pingüino” on Fiesta! (30 minutes)
Sesame Street Celebrates Around the World. (60 minutes)
Professional Resources
Diez deditos vol. 12 by José Luis Orozco.
The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb: A Mexican Fable by Shirley Climo.
Multicultural Folktales for the Feltboard and Readers’ Theater by Judy Sierra.
Oriental Trading Company
www.orientaltrading.com