planning and hosting an edible book festival
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Edible BookFestivals
Cheryl Youse
Cheryl is the media specialist for Colquitt County High School which serves tenth through twelfth grades.
Who are we?
Melanie Turner
Melanie is the media specialist for C A Gray Junior High School. Gray serves 8th and 9th grade students.
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What is an edible book festival?
An Edible Book Festival is not only a celebration of reading, it’s a true transliteracy experience! Entrants can create any type of edible representation of a book. It does NOT have to be a cake!
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1. Planning
Categories
✗ Classics✗ Children’s Book✗ Funniest/Punniest✗ Drop-Dead Gorgeous✗ Best Banned Book✗ People’s Choice✗ Or some other genre or category popular at your school
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ClassicsEveryone knows these books.(Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, etc.)
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Children’s Books
What was your favorite book as a small tyke?
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Funniest/PunniestLet your imagination run wild and show us your funny interpretation of a book. You could also use a pun or play on words to change the title a bit.
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(Maybe a scene from The Hunger Games would be "Peeping Day" instead of "Reaping Day." You could use marshmallow peeps as people.)
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Drop-Dead GorgeousThis is pretty self-explanatory. Your project is beautiful.
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Best Banned BookWe talk about the difference between a challenged book and a banned book. Participants can base their entry a book that has been banned somewhere. (This one is The Bible.)
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People’s ChoiceYour peers and teachers will vote on their favorite entries. It's an edible popularity contest!
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People’s Choice Voting Suggestion
*You do have to make sure it is not possible to ‘rig’ the ballot box and set up voting in a way that only permits one vote per person.
CA Gray Way:
We took a page from George R. R. Martin and used a token voting system. Students received a token upon entering the media center. They were asked to drop it in the cup by their favorite project after viewing them all.
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Prep Work
Scheduling
What other events on going on the school?
When can sponsors help?
What day of the week is best?
What teachers might offer this opportunity as a class project?
Start with your literature teachers!
Will you buy awards or make them?
Pros and cons
Community donations (Our local Chick Fil A is always very generous to us.)
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Other things to consider...
✗ If students are going to want to eat/share their entries with friends, have judging before lunch
✗ Give teachers an opportunity to sign up for a time to bring their classes in advance of the day
✗ Possibly schedule it for a Monday so they have more time to prepare?
✗ Require that the entries be THEIR OWN WORK
✗ Have plastic wrap available--some students will want to eat it later
✗ Set a hard deadline for pickup after it’s over--throw out anything left after that deadline
✗ Require that they have a copy of the books to display or at least the cover of the book
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Things to consider buying:
✗ Awards✗ Plastic wrap✗ Cups for voting✗ Tokens for voting (or borrow)✗ Cheap tablecloths (Scholastic book fair
tablecloths work great)
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Buying trophies:
✗ Your local trophy shop may be able to supply you with small trophies at a reasonable cost ($56 for 8 last year).
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Making your own awards...
is one idea to cut costs and also have cute trophies!
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Step 1: Buy supplies
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$24$1 ea$10
Step 2: Spray away
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Spray the face-up side of the materials, let dry, and flip to continue coating.
Step 3: Glue into place
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Other possible purchases:
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$24 $7
Award pics
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Forms
Require a deadline for sign up so that you can plan how much space will be needed that day.
This will also help in spreading out projects which might fit in more than one category as students sign up. (We make them choose just one category to enter.)
Sign up process
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Judge Recruitment Ideas:
✗ Community members✗ Cafeteria managers✗ School board personnel✗ Bakery owners
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2. Promoting
Do you like to read?Do you like to eat?
Enter the Edible Book Festival!
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Free online poster maker:smore.com
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3. Running
The Day of...
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● Be there early so participants can drop off their entries
● Number the entries (keep a list of the names and numbers)
● Plan on staying late for cleanup● Have refreshments on hand for the judges● Make sure you have batteries for your camera● Send in a morning announcement to remind the
school if the event
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After...
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● Send your pictures and announcements of winners to the local paper, post them on your website, etc.
● Write thank you notes to judges, donors, and anyone else who helped
● Start planning for next year!
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4. Additional inspiration
Potato Creations
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Pumpkin projects -Norman Park Elementary School
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Thanks!Any questions?You can contact us here:
✗ [email protected]✗ [email protected]✗ www.colquitt.k12.ga.us