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Buttons & Figs
Buttons & Figs inspires kids to think critically and express creatively through wordplay.
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Created by: CalicoCast
Started: September 8th, 2016
Status: Active, 178 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
Animal Farm Fun with Kids Place Live Host Kenny Curtis
00:26:26 | June 5th, 2021
On this episode we get to wordplay with Dirk, a talking chipmunk! Which means we’re sailing our sieve to talk with Kenny Curtis, host, DJ, and animal wrangler for his radio show, The Animal Farm, which airs on Sirius XM Channel 78, Kids Place Live. You’ll get to hear about the talking animals on Kenny’s radio show, a bit of history about satellite radio, and learn about some of the music and podcast projects he works on. You’ll also hear from some Buttons & Figs kids who have a few animal suggestions for Kenny’s Animal Farm…not to mention a few interrupting animal jokes, because it’s always fun to yell into a microphone!
Celebrating Poetry with Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate Annika Clark
00:19:25 | April 24th, 2021
In celebration of National Poetry Month we have a special guest – Phoenix’s Youth Poet Laureate Annika Clark! In this episode we talk with Annika about how she came to be the youth poet laureate of Phoenix, how she fell in love with poetry, and what inspires her to write poetry…but best of all, you get to hear a poem she wrote for her little sister, titled "For Grace". She also shares the poetry prompt that inspired her to write the poem, so you can write a poem for someone special too!
Nonsense Poetry for National Poetry Month
00:05:02 | April 22nd, 2021
Happy National Poetry Month! We love listening, reading and writing poetry during April and we hope you do too! Here’s a poem I wrote, hope you’ll say it along with me, it’s called, Pails of Shoeshine.
Epic Encore: The War Of The Fools
00:31:44 | March 31st, 2021
Epic Encore: Once again…Nonsense appeared to be on a collision course with reason…presenting Buttons & Figs and the Oyster Actors on the Air in The War of the Fools. It was on this day, April 1st, in which weird happenings began to happen. Reporters began to report reportable events, reportable strange happenings, reportable odd sightings – a meat shower, a weird alphabet song, odd creatures sailing in a sieve making demands…what if it were all true?! Featuring voices from the pod-o-sphere, including The Past & The Curious, Composer Dad, and What If World. Tune in to Buttons & Figs to find out what the reporters are reporting this April Fool’s day. btw…does anyone have any stilton cheese?! Take care out there.
Activity Book Nonsense – New Album and Interview with comedy musician Mike Phirman
00:27:09 | March 30th, 2021
Do you like to say the words, Activity Books? Do you like all the puzzles and games found in Activity Books? Then you’ll love comedy musician Mike Phirman’s new album titled, "Activity Books". In this episode you’ll get to hear one of the songs from his new EP, "Word Search/Vacuum", featuring the voice of Weird Al Yankovich, and you’ll get to hear our funny and fabulous interview with Mike about how he became famous and about his unfortunate experience with a vacuum. A few of our Buttons & Figs kids were inspired to create their own word search activity after listening to this fabulous album.
Miss Mary Mack Nonsense!
00:06:20 | March 6th, 2021
Do you know the rhyme Miss Mary Mack?! If so, then we have a silly, fun, joyful nonsense challenge! In this episode you’ll learn a bit about the rhyme Miss Mary Mack, hear Buttons & Figs kid Chloe sing the rhyme AND make up a nonsense version of her own…and of course, we hope her wordplay will inspire YOU to make up your own version too!
Silly Animal Verse inspired by Ogden Nash
00:13:35 | February 18th, 2021
Do you love animals at the zoo…us too! For this episode we were inspired by Ogden Nash’s "Zoo", a collection of silly animal verse, illustrated by Etienne Delessert. We invited kids at the Velma Teague Library to read some of Ogden Nash’s poems and write some of their own. You’ll learn a bit about Ogden Nash, hear a few of his poems, and hear original poems about a panda, a bee, a sheep and more! We’ll also tell you how we went about our wordplay, so you can play our way by writing some silly animal verse of your own!
Writing Nonsense – A Word Ghost in the Portal
00:21:26 | February 4th, 2021
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a Word Ghost were to capture me and a bunch of Buttons & Figs kids after we fell through a portal along with a bunch of other friends, like horses, chickens and Scooby-Doo? Us too! In this episode you get to hear a tale from the land of Wacky Woo, Woo, Woo, spun from the imaginations of the first ever group of online writers for Buttons & Figs. During our online class we played with alliteration, rhyming verse, word rhythms then for our last class, we each wrote a chapter that I’ve woven into a story…sort of.
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Created by: CalicoCast
Started:
September 8th, 2016
Status: Active, 178 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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