Little Labbin' with Big Imaginations! How Cool Is It To Get Homework from 8 - 11 Year Olds? I Got This! Ribbit Ribbit!

I am loving the online literacy labs and am so proud of my teaching network for making the summer camps extra special, humorous, fun, engaging, interactive, and inspiring. I was with the older kids on Day One of developing a character then swiped over to see what the 2nd week of Little Labs for Big Imaginations were doing. They were laughing hysterically when I entered and I asked, "What's so funny?"

Of course they replied, "Your face."

Actually, I am too new to them for such humor, so I arrived with my frog-friend and listened as Jessica Baldizon was challenging them to create a super-duper list about something they love and are passionate about.

50 THINGS! Wow. I wish my elementary school teachers challenged me to 50 things! Then a boy put the challenge out to me. I bet you can't come up with 50 things to do with a rubber frog!

Challenge taken, buckaroo. There's much to be done with a rubber frog.

50 Things to Do with a Rubber Frog (aka meeting the little lab challenge)

1. Chase your sister, of course.
2. Torment the dog.
3. Do rubber dissections.
4. Walk the streets in search of a rubber Miss Piggy.
5. Scare the neighborhood flies away.
6. Juggle him with your rubber chicken and rubber ducky.
7. Play a rubber chef and make rubber frog legs (they say they chase like chicken).
8. Challenge him to a game of hopscotch.
9. Attract herons to the yard.
10. Also attract snakes.
11. Leave in toilet somewhere.
12. Make frog noises with it.
13. Name at least 10 other green things with him.
14. Upload videos to Tik Tok, of course. 
15. Put it in a wig and tell everyone it's your grandma.
16. Take it for a bike ride on your shoulder.
17. Teach it to skateboard.
18. Teach him how to dance the floss.
19. Have him use his tongue to get the crumbs off you from the cookie you just ate.
20. Use him to spellcheck.
21. Have him stuffed when on a cruise and gifted to a friend like Jessica did.
22. Put him in a top hat and give him a cane to see if he can sing.
23. Play Frogger with him and his friends.
24. Ask him to tell you what it was like when he was just a tadpole.
25. Duh. Play Leap Frog.
26. Put him in lipstick and wait for all the women to flock to him looking for a prince.
27. Teach him to sing Baby Shark.
28. Debate with him what is better? Pizza, Hamburgers, Hotdogs, or Dragonflies.
29. Have him teach his friends to stay out of your mother's pool.
30. Put him in the freezer and take him out when you need a friend.
31. Brush their teeth. They do have teeth. 
32. Read Frog and Toad stories.
33. Stretch him around your head like he's a headband.
34. Leave him in the mailbox so the mail person gets a surprise.
35. Pretend to eat him like you're an alien creature.
36. Bring him to school and only talk to him so everyone thinks you're super crazy.
37. Shake him frantically as if he's Kermit at the end of the Muppet Show.
38. See if he floats in the bathtub.
39. Have him watch you fill up your writer's notebook
40. Take him to see Hamilton.
41. Have him go eat Vietnamese food with Miss Mindy.
42. Get him stuck in Ms. Stefania's hair. 
43. Assign him to get all the indoor spiders.
44. Teach him sign language.
45. Share your best frog noise impersonations.
46. Write him letters and send them to the Lily Pad (true story that).
47. Buy him wind-up toys to play with.
48. Write him a frog-poem that leaps across the page.
49. Introduce him to your invisible friends, and
50. Obviously, sing the Rainbow Connection.

Ta-da! The 50-list. Thanks for the writing prompt. Absolutely love the big imaginations!