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Storytime, Spooktacular Halloween Edition: Will Kawalec reads Halloween Monster by Catherine Stock
As Halloween draws near, Tommy starts looking under his bed and in his closet for monsters. Happily Tommy’s mother understands his fears and helps him to make a super costume so that he can join his friends for his first night of trick-or-treating.
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Storytime, Spooktacular Halloween Edition: Dave Smith, President of Dave Smith Ford and the Chairman of the WNY New Car Dealers Charitable Fund, reads The Little Engine That Could by by Watty Piper.
The story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before reaching the children. After asking several passing trains for help over the hill, a little blue train agrees to help the stranded toys. Even though she is small, the blue train tries her best to bring the toys to the children on the other side of the hill.
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Storytime, Spooktacular Halloween Edition: Dan Walsh reads Ghosts for Breakfast by Stanley Todd Terasaki
PON! PON! PON! PON!The pounding on the door brings three unexpected guests to our young narrator’s home — Mr. Omi, Mr. Omaye, and Mr. Ono. The Troublesome Triplets, as they are called because they always seem to have some sort of complaint, have just seen ghosts — dozens of them — in Farmer Tanaka’s field!
Amelia Schrader
Senior Manager of Learning and Education
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Materials:
Rangoli Outline (download here)
Colored Sand
Liquid Glue
Shallow Tray (optional)
Activity Time: 15 minutes +
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Halloween is not the only holiday celebrated in the fall. Each year sometime between mid-October and mid-December Diwali is celebrated throughout the world. In 2020, Diwali will begin on November 12th and end of November 16th. It is a five day long celebration that originated in India. The most important day of Diwali is the third day of celebration. This day is so important that it is a national holiday in India. Today, as we learn a little more about Diwali or the Festival of Light, we are going to make our own rangoli sand art!
Rangoli sand art is a traditional part of Diwali celebrations. Traditionally these artworks are created out of colored sand, rice or quarts and created on the floor. Rangoli art is though to bring good luck to the home. Today, our rangoli art will be created on paper instead of the floor but you will still gain a sense of beauty and tradition from this art form.
Step 1: Trace the lines on the Rangoli outline with glue. Try and make your glue lines as thin as possible.
*Hint: Choose your colors one at a time! Only trace glue lines where you want to put each individual color. If you trace all the glue at once it will be harder to separate the colors.
Step 2: Carefully sprinkle colored sand over the glue. After a few minutes, gently shake the excess sand into a separate container.
Step 3: Let your Rangoli design finish drying. Depending on the amount of glue you used this could take several hours or eve over night. Once it is dry, display your rangoli design with pride to celebrate Diwali!
Diwali – The Festival of Lights: This is one of the largest Indian Holidays and it is celebrated by a billion people of 4 different faiths – Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. This massive celebration signifies victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Diwali is celebrated by lighting Diyas (clay lamps), creating beautiful rangoli sand art, enjoying fireworks, wearing new clothes and eating special foods!
Rangoli – Intricate floor art created with colored sand. Images can be simple geometric shapes or elaborate floral designs. The purpose of rangoli is to feel strength and generosity. These designs are also believed to bring good luck.
Special thank you to our Super Spooktacular Halloween sponsor, Hunt Real Estate and to the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association for their generous grant for the Pay What You Can program.
Storytime, Spooktacular Halloween Edition: Betty Murphy, Executive Vice President of the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association reads Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss.
