What can you do with a cardboard box?

What could possibly be more fun than taping up a giant refrigerator box?

Hiding in the giant refrigerator box:The boxes inspired a LOT of robots:Corrugated cardboard can be tricky to cut:
Not all boxes turned into robots -- one of the boxes turned into pool tables:

Box Creations

PJ has become Robot 885792, and is coming right at us!



Dylan practices on his new pool table.

Paper Magic

Libby, Natalia, and their after-school friends make snowflakes, a banner, and paper-doll chains to decorate the gym for Monday's family dinner. (Singing by UVM partners Jeff, Libby, Natalia, Shauneen, Molly, Jackie, Stephen, Joanna, and Nancy.)



How'd they do it? Our experts explain:

Interviews (with and without Guitar and Accents!)

An interview with Samantha:


Samantha plays "guitar":


An interview with Anna:


An interview with Connor:


If we were from Texas or from Scotland:

Memory and Computer time

Bethany and Fartun play Memory.

Tim plans his next attack.
Jeff and Lili work together on the computer.

Recordings of Interviews and Potterwatch

Anna interviews Noel:











Cheylene interviews Noelle:

Anna interviews Cheylene:



Anna interviews Molly, Noelle, and Cheylene:


Anna interviews Jujuan:


Molly interviews Anna:


Anna's Top Secret Answers


Anna hosts her show, Potterwatch:

Nguyen likes fall and Isaiah and Shauneen draw

Isaiah and Shauneen confer about what to draw: "No guns?!"


Mission accomplished!

Nguyen drew this picture of a little boy named Billy jumping into leaves.

The Zombie Attacks

Lili's Picture

Isaiah's Wrestler

King Street Robots

"I like robots because . . . I don't know. That's funny. I like robots. Go."

-Dylan, age 5

Fartun Sings "The Candy Man"

The Evil Hotdog

By PJ and Seamus

Illustrated by Seamus and PJ

A man was walking in the city when a hot dog salesman showed up. He said “Hot dogs! Fresh hot dogs!” It smelled like burning ham. “Delicious hot dogs!” And then the man bought the hot dog. But the hot dog tasted like garbage! So they said “What?! This is false advertising!” As the man shook his fist and yelled at the hot dog, then threw it down in the sewer. But there was radioactive sludge down there… And it changed him into THE FEROCIOUS HOTDOG! He had big teeth and huge burning red eyes, with a fork and a knife on his back. He climbed finally out of the sewer. The man saw the hotdog that he had thrown down in the sewer just laying on the sidewalk. He said, “What the--? I thought I got rid of that hotdog!” Then he threw it in the garbage. But the hotdog jumped out of the trash bin and sliced the man in half with the knife that had been on his back! Then the hot dog ate his remains. He said, “This is for throwing me in the sewer!” Then he crossed his hands and said, “Mm.. Delicious… I can’t wait for my next victim!” Then the hotdog finds an old lady walking in the street at night. She heard something creeping up on her, but every time she looked back, she just saw a hotdog laying down! Then it got closer, then she squeaked, “Wasn’t that hotdog just laying over there?!” And then, the hotdog jumps out at her and tore her head off! And it ate her head, and said, in a high voice, “Yummy! Tasty!” And in a few nights, it ate almost all the people in New York! Then there were two boys walking in the street. They were PJ and Seamus and they saw the hotdog jump at them! But then PJ and Seamus walked out of the way, but Seamus kicked the hot dog and struck it with a knife! And PJ stabbed it with a fork while it was on the ground, and threw it down a hill! Then they moved to a new city in Alabama, but they could hear the hotdog’s voice as it said “I will have my revenge!” In a very scratchy, scary voice. The voice was coming from behind the hill…



The End—Part 2 Coming Soon!

leaf rubbing by anna valenti

hi i am anna!! i made this at king street today. i turned a leaf up side down and put a pice of papper on it an applied a crayn and rubbed. that is how i did my leaf!

Stories by Groups

Four people created each picture -- one drew the head and then folded down the paper; one drew the body, one drew the legs, and one drew the feet. Similarly, four people wrote each story, each person writing only a few lines.

This is the story of Baby Dude:

Anna reading the story of Baby Dude:

This is the story of Boxing Girl:

Anna reading the story of Boxing Girl:

This is the story of Colby:

Anna reading the story of Colby:


This is the story of Molly & Mrs. Longneck:

Anna reading the story of Molly & Mrs. Longneck:

Two More Puppets!

Here are a few of the puppets the kids created on Friday. Bartholomew the Gentleman is "oh so refined."

This Super Puppet has rectangular orange teeth!

Rhodedendrums and Connor's Puppet Show

"I got this idea because I wanted to do the puppet show at King Street Youth Center, and it's really fun to make puppet shows. The only character in my show is called Rhodedendrums, it's like she loves singing, she sings one song-- the ABCs, and a little of Patty Cake. She's a movie star and she has an mp3 player, she went down under her basement so that she won't get caught by the paparazzi, and she's kind of dumb. I had 100% fun on it! It was really really fun."

-Connor

Home Construction

Yesterday, 10/25/2007, Libby and Natalia led the homework room in a house-building project.

Anna interviews Natalia on today's construction project:

Our roving reporter Andrew interviews home-builders, people-makers, plus Peggy and Connor the singer:

This is a picture of Anna carefully creating walls:

Misky decorated her walls with markers before gluing them together:

Ryan's finished house:

Eric changed the parameters of the initial idea just a bit . . .

Puppets and airplanes

Live Puppet Show!

The ravenous Supper Puppet eats other puppets and people!

With all the Red Sox fever around here, it's not surprising that one of the puppets reported on a game!







It's a skateboarder! It's a plane! It's a skateboarder plane!

Shauneen inquires about airplane making:


Shauneen hears about a jet:

Treasure Maps and Past-Present-Future

Hawa's treasure map












Colby's treasure map














Anna, Eric, and Iliana talk about their pasts, presents, and futures:

Andrew Entertains!

Puppet mania continues, just when you thought it was safe to eat lunch again...

For next week, we plan on creating some new puppets in the afternoon as well as building up and decorating our new stage. We will also start practicing some shows with our new puppets and thinking of ideas for stories or adventures. Some of which may (with luck) involve Mr. Winking Cow.

-Tim and Jeff

Puppets, puppets, puppets!

On Friday, Tim and Jeff made more puppets with the afterschoolers. Here's one of the shows they produced. There were some truly fantastic puppets made, including Shayleen's "perfect puppet," Dylan's hungry puppet, and Eric's alien monster puppet (who was visiting us from Neptune and eating our cows). Below is a super puppet who can "beat anyone up." Watch out!

Here are some photographs of the puppets that the kids created: