When we arrived at the part in the book where the tree house spun and took Jack and Annie to China, each child received a Dizzy Pill (which is actually a tootsie roll) to help make them less dizzy. After eating their Dizzy Pills, the children were instructed to spin around three times, as if they were in the spinning tree house.
When we got to the part in the book where Jack wrote in his notebook, I showed the notebook I made that has all of Jack's notes in it.
Our first craft was making the Chinese hats that Jack and Annie wore during their adventure. The children decorated and cut out their hats. Then, I walked around and helped tape them. We all wore our hats for the remainder of the meeting!
The next craft was making a bamboo strip book, like the one Jack and Annie searched for. I cut strips of construction paper and printed copies of the Chinese alphabet. The children used the alphabet key to write their first names on the "bamboo strips." Some of the children decided to tape their bamboo strip together and wear it as a bracelet.
Later, when Jack and Annie went inside the Dragon King's burial chamber, the room was filled with Chinese lamps. All the children got to make their own lamp! Prior to the meeting, I marked on the construction paper where the children should cut. At the meeting, the children decorated their Chinese lamps, cut the lines I had previously marked, and added handles to their lamps.
Our last activity involed the yellow silk weaver and the cow herder. Beforehand, I printed out pictures of cows and hole-punched the borders. At the meeting, the children colored the cow, and then weaved the attached yellow yarn around the picture.
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