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-: Hello! I am Gillian Jorgensen.
I'm the Education Director for Book-It Repertory Theater.
-: My name is Nora and I'm in Sixth Grade.
-: My name is Ruchi and I'm in Second Grade.
-: In today's lesson, we'll be using a scavenger hunt
to make a story called "Color Adventure."
For this lesson you'll need a lot of imagination,
and a few props.
For this lesson, the props can be anything that
you decide what it is.
Something from each color of the rainbow in your home.
Just make sure it's yours,
or you get permission if it belongs to someone else,
or it might make a big mess.
You'll need:
a red object, an orange object,
a yellow object,
a green object,
a blue object,
-: (Ruchi) An indigo object, and a violet object,
or a purple object.
-: (Gillian) Oh, yeah, it could be violet or purple.
Something you can carry will probably work the best.
Nora. - Yeah
-: So, for our story we need one object
from every color of the rainbow.
Do you have some ideas about what you might look for?
-: I have a question.
-: Okay, what's your question?
-: So you said it was a scavenger hunt, but if those
are the materials you need
then you're not really finding them.
-: Well sort of. I mean, yes, you're right.
It's a scavenger hunt in like a mom-teacher kind of way,
where it's an object that is already in your house,
but you have to go look for it,
but you get to decide what it is on your way.
Something red, orange, yellow, blue,
green, indigo, and violet.
Or purple.
-: So do you like, think, "Oh, I know that I have
a green hat,
so I'll go find that."
-: Yeah, yeah. That's a great way to look at it.
What about you, Ruchi? What do you think you're gonna find?
-: I'm not sure.
-: No, yeah, sometimes you just gotta start walking around
and then something like red or green or yellow will just
jump out and go, "Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!"
All right, we're gonna go find our seven objects.
All right, we went all around our house
and found seven objects.
Even that was a story, just like,
"Once upon a time,
we wandered around the house and found seven objects.
The end."
But it's not the end,
because of course there are more stories we can tell.
We have a red necklace, an orange candle,
a yellow little rubber chicken, a green shaky egg.
-: Blue tape.
-: Indigo scrunchy,
and purple octopus.
Dennis. -With a hat.
-: With a hat.
-: And ice cream.
-: Okay, great. - And teeth.
-: Okay, cool. Hey Nora, which one of these objects
is saying, "Pick me! Pick me!"
-: Um, I like this candle.
-: Okay, great.
So now,
Nora could tell the real story of that candle.
Nora, what's, in one sentence;
you'll be able to use a longer story later,
but for an example we're just doing one sentence.
What's the one sentence true story of that candle?
-: This is a candle I made at Science Camp
when I was in Second Grade.
-: Thank you.
All right, but what if we tell
the imaginary story of that candle?
-: Oh, oh!
-: Ruchi, okay.
Here we go.
-: This candle was made by the waxy
fire
from
the mouth
of a special
kind of fish.
-: Oh!
-: It's a
literal flying fish, so, like,
there (mumbles) the flying fish, but it's a fire breathing,
feathered,
winged fish.
-: Oh my goodness. I love it. Nora.
-: And it breathes fire, and this made that
and somehow Nora found it.
-: Thank you, Ruchi.
Nora, what's another imaginary thing
that could be true about this candle?
-: It could be made, it could be, like,
made when the Plague was actually happening.
Like it could be a real..
-: Oh, like in the Middle Ages? - Yeah.
-: Oh, so it could be like an artifact that maybe
this is something that is real from a very long time ago.
Thank you, orange candle.
Okay, let's see, let's see.
Ruchi, will you pick one of these objects
for the real story?
What one is calling to you saying, "Pick me! Pick me!"
-: Rubber chicken!
Ruchi, do you know the real story
of that rubber chicken?
-: Mom likes rubber chickens, so she bought it.
-: That is true.
I like rubber chickens,
and so I bought it.
What is an imagination story with this?
-: Look right into our friends at home and let them know.
-: It was made by a special kind of
water
that comes
from underground
Christmas bells.
-: Oh, thank you!
-: I just put random things together.
-: Nora, what's an imagination story for this yellow object?
-: Maybe this was a real chicken that got,
it was like an experiment for a shrinking potion.
-: And then it shrank and uh, died.
-: Thank you.
Oh my goodness, thank you, thank you little chicken,
thank you little chicken.
Hmm, what's another...
Should we do one more?
Ruchi, choose.
-: I choose for you.
-: Okay.
This is my favorite teaching supply,
blue tape.
Real story; I bought this at the hardware store.
Nora, imagination story about
the blue tape.
-: Um, it is the only possible tape that can be used
to tie up the lethal dragon that lives
in a cave.
-: Dragon in a cave.
Ruchi, the imagination story of the blue tape.
-: It's
not blue,
but it's an illusion!
It's actually
pink!
But, our eyes don't work that way,
so we see it blue.
-: And this writing on it is not green,
we see it green, - Oh my goodness.
-: but it's actually brown!
-: Thank you. I can tell Ruchi has so much more
to tell about this story. Thank you.
I'm feeling this now, and it's very sticky.
Which is giving me the story idea
of a time we walked into a cave and our feet got stuck.
Oh my goodness, Nora, what should we do
next with these stories, would you like to act it out,
draw it, or write it?
-: I think these stories would be good written down.
-: Oh, a writing down story? Okay.
-: Maybe a graphic novel?
-: Oh, a graphic novel, thank you.
Ruchi, what would you want to do?
Would you want to act it out, write it down, or draw it?
-: I would want to draw it
using blue tape as a special effect.
-: Oh, oh, like the blue tape as an actual material
-: Yes. - on a paper? -Yeah.
-: Cool. I think I would actually want to act this one out,
cause I wanna know how the blue tape would feel
on the bottom of my feet.
What would you do?
Find those seven color objects in your own house
and start making up your own story.
Everything in our home has a story.
On their own, they might not always be interesting stories,
but together, if we add some details,
we can turn an ordinary thing into something magical.
Today's story I made with my children Nora and Ruchi.
You can do this story with your family, your siblings,
your friends, or even all by yourself.
Thank you for joining us today for Color Adventure.
Happy creating!
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