Web sites for 2003 SLP

Doggone Fun!
American Kennel Club - www.akc.org. Provides information on dog breeds, great photos and a trivia game at the Kid's Corner.

Clifford the Big Red Dog - www.pbskids.org/clifford. Clifford's web site provides coloring pages, activity sheets and dot-to-dot pages.

Dav's Page O'Fun - www.pilkey.com/games.php This section of author-illustrator Dav Pilkey's web site is full of activities featuring his dog characters.

DogPlay: A Fun Place for Dogs - www.dog-play.com/youth.html. Provides information about raising dogs and links to other dog resources.

Dog Activity Ideas - www.geocities.com/chicky-ma-ma/dog.html. Dog related crafts and ideas.

McGruff the Crime Dog - www.mcgruff.org. Provides coloring pages, games and safety tips. Also provides information on how to arrange a visit from McGruff the crime dog.

Silly Eats

Edible Insects - www.mcgruff.org. Find recipes featuring insects!

Grossology, the Science of Gross Things - www.grossology.com. Site includes a Grossology Museum tour, recipes, activities and more.

Making Friends - www.makingfriends.com. You can find food images to print out at this site.

Mr. Potato Head - http://thinks.com/java/mr-potato/mr-potato.htm. Make silly faces on Mr. Potato Head, and other vegetables, on line.

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet - http://yucky.kids.discovery.com. A yucky site with an educational approach to making yucky recipes.

Tellin' Tales
Aaron Shepard's web site - www.aaronshep.com. Includes many readers' theater scripts and ideas for library programs.

ABC Teach - http://abcteach.com. Type "fairy tale concentration" in the search screen for a game you can print out and play.

Houghton Mifflin Education Place/Fractured Fairy Tales - www.eduplace.com. Click on "Folk/Legends/Fairy Tale" in the Activity Search to find a creative writing activity on fractured fairy tales for intermediate grades.

Jan Brett's homepage - www.janbrett.com. Lots of activities related to Brett's tales, including The Gingerbread Baby.

The Story Connection - http://www.storyconnection.net/activities.htm Includes simple and excellent storytelling activities that can be used with a wide variety of stories and age levels. Several ideas fit in well with this manual's theme, "Laugh It Up @ Your Library."

Pun and Games
Alan Cooper's Homonyms: www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html An extensive list of homonyms and homophones.

Audrey Wood's Homepage: www.audreywood.com For coloring pages of Silly Sally and more visit this website.

Edward Lear Homepage: http://edwardlear.tripod.com/learwk.html You'll find Lear's nonsense poems and picture rhymes at this site.

Games Kids Play: www.gameskidsplay.net Looking for kid's games? How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more? You have come to right place!

Ivy's Domain: www.ivyjoy.com This site has a terrific coloring page search engine.

Joke-a-Rama, Great Jokes for Kids: www.whatalulu.com Click on Joke-a-Rama for jokes submitted by kids. Includes gross jokes, food, jokes, cross-the-road jokes and more. There's also an online game of Smiley Solitaire!

TheKidzpage.com: www.thekidzpage.com Has a great section of printable mazes and word puzzles in the "ABC learning" section.

Mad Hatter Tea Party: www.boardmanweb.com Click on Boardman's Birthday Party Ideas. This site has fun ideas for staging a Mad Hatter Tea Party and several others.

The Official Roald Dahl Website: www.roalddahl.com Check out the classroom activities for some fun with words and Dahl's books.

Seussville: www.randomhouse.com/seussville Random House's official Dr. Seuss home page has games and activities you can print out and play.

Thinks.com: www.thinks.com Click on "Words and Wordplay" for tongue twisters, palindromes, limericks and more.

Variety Show

Becky's Campfire Songbook:
www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/8851/index.htm This website has song lyrics including lots of silly songs and chants.

Hank Lee's Magic Factory: www.hanklee.net Find and purchase a trick to wow the kids with at this great source.

Kathy Ross Homepage: www.kathyross.com You'll find numerous project ideas at the website of craft book author and SLP manual contributor Kathy Ross, including a star-shaped circus clown (Craft number 6 in the "Crafts From the Attic" section).

Kididdles: www.kididdles.com Click on Mojo's Musical Mouseum for an extensive collection of lyrics to hundreds of children's songs. Also a source for sheet music for these songs.

For more information, contact Shawn Brommer at (608) 246-7973 or sbrommer@scls.lib.wi.us.

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