When we arrived at the part in the book where the tree house spun, 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 a Civil War soldier. The children colored, cut out, and glued the soldier's body parts together.
When Jack and Annie brought canteens of water to the injured soldiers, we made our own canteens. Prior to the meeting, I stapled two small paper plates together and hole punched the top. The children used markers and stickers to decorate these plates. Then, I gave each child string and 10 beads to attach to the top of their plate/canteen.
When Jack met his relative, the drummer boy, we made our own drums! I passed out a Styrofoam bowl to each child, and they decorated this drum with markers and stickers. Each child also received two popsicle sticks as drumsticks. The children enjoyed playing the drums after this craft was completed.
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