Ramona Party

Last summer (2009) BCL hosted a party based on the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary (this was before we knew that there was going to be a Ramona movie in 2010.... oh, well-- guess we have to have another party).
Similar to Fancy Nancy, we had a dress up station and a photographer to take the kid's pictures ("Peas," anyone?). The kids made a photo frame from Popsicle sticks, made flags for a parade, drew the longest picture in the world, ate bananas and drank oveltine, played "gray duck" or "duck, duck, goose" and in general had a creative, exciting, and run-around good time.

Because the comments we received after Fancy Nancy included having more obvious tie-ins to the book series we had both a read aloud from the first chapter of Ramona the Pest (by Children's librarian, Ann B.) and a book display of all the books that had been referenced in the Ramona Series.

I learned from this program, that while dress-up is fun and imaginative play, it should not be done in the same program in which we use puff paints.