(upbeat music)
-: Hello, I'm Gillian Jorgensen.
I'm the education director at Book-it Repertory Theatre.
-: My name is Nora and I'm in sixth grade.
-: My name is Ruchie and I'm in second grade.
-: For today's lesson,
we will explore a cause and effects story
called Hatch, Egg, Hatch.
To do this story you'll need a lot of imagination
and a few props.
We are making a nest out of blank note cards or paper,
and on those we'll be drawing pictures
of things that can hatch.
You can use markers or crayons or pencils,
anything you like to make your drawings.
You'll also need something that looks a little bit
or a lot like an egg.
It can be something that you already have in your house,
or a rock, or a stone,
or you can make one up out of paper,
or even a squishy sponge.
Any of those things will work to make your nest
and your egg.
Hey Nora, what are some things you might draw
on your note cards of things that hatch?
-: Well I could put like things that would hatch,
like maybe a bird, a snake, some sort of animal.
or things that wouldn't like pizza, flowers,
unicorns!
-: Blue tape!
-: (Gasps) Yes, that is definitely something
that I would like, an egg that hatched blue tape.
Ruchie, what are some other things you think you might draw?
-: A bean bag?
-: Oh yeah sure.
-: And,
It's okay some -: A book!
-: A book, a hatching book, okay I love it, I love it.
Alright, we are going to take our time
-: I'm sticking with blue tape though
-: And sticking with blue tape? Okay.
We are going to take our time to draw those things,
but for you watching, it will take no time at all.
Alright, we're getting ready to build our nest.
Nora and Ruchie and I each drew on our own card
things we thought might hatch out of nests.
Some things serious, some things not so much.
I drew a sock,
and a bird.
There's part of a nest right there.
Nora, what did you make?
-: I drew a happy cloud, an angry fire monster,
and a chicken.
-: Thank you.
Ruchie, what did you draw?
-: I drew water that is rolling it's eyes,
and a little puff ball fox.
-: And a puff ball fox, look at that.
We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
different stories we can tell right there.
We can also use this as our nest,
for an egg that might hatch on its own.
Oh Ruchie, I see you've got that soft cloth,
will you put the soft cloth right in the middle?
Alright.
Sometimes our story ideas come from just our heads,
and sometimes they come from working together
to make an object that gives us
a more heart idea to how a story could work.
How's it coming Ruchie?
-: Good.
-: Okay, good.
Here we go.
So we have our story idea cards,
that are making the border of the nest,
to keep our eggs safe.
And then Ruchie has put together the cloth
that is just ready for the nest for the egg.
-: May I have the egg?
-: Yes.
We are using a stone egg in our home.
You could use anything you want,
as long as there's an agreement with your family
of what to use.
It might be cool to use a real egg,
but it might also be very messy.
There you go.
-: I'm going to tuck it in.
-: Okay.
-: Get the egg tucked in.
-: Alright.
Thank you Ruchie.
Okay so we have our story cards
and our gentle nest,
and we thought of three magical ways
that this egg might hatch.
Nora, will you show your idea?
-: You could play a little song.
[Nora] (harmonica plays)
-: Yeah, and Nora I heard an extra story in that story.
Almost the story of how when the song faltered,
what might that do to the egg?
-: Ruchie, what idea did you come up with?
Ruchie: (coo-coo whistle plays)
Oh yeah, a bird call.
A bird calling to the nest.
-: Or something like a soft wing or wind.
-: Oh right, so thinking about
the outside of the environment.
Just from these ideas right here,
lets show them what we came up with as a family.
We found a way to make bird patterns with our hand.
They'll look pretty similar if you've ever made
shadow birds.
We've got our bird head with our thumbs together,
and our bird wings.
-: Yeah, the shadows on this really do look like birds.
-: They do.
And we thought of a way to almost make
a bird hatching play, just a tiny bit.
Here it is.
Everyone: (whooshing)
Everyone: Hatch little bird, hatch little bird,
hatch little bird, hatch, hatch little bird,
hatch little bird, hatch little bird, hatch,
hatch little bird, hatch little bird, hatch little bird,
hatch, hatch, little bird, hatch!
-: What could happen next?
When we release our hands up,
what could be under there?
It's still our egg,
but it could be anything.
Nora, what would you want to do next with this?
Would you want to write it down, act it out, draw it?
-: I would act it out.
-: You would act it out, okay.
Thank you, thank you thank you.
Ruchie, what would you do?
Would you act it out,
and I want you to pause for a moment
on that exciting coo-coo whistle,
would you want to act it out, draw it,
or write it out as a whole story?
Ruchie: (coo-coo whistle plays)
-: Act it out?
Draw it?
Oh yeah, draw it.
And I would write it,
because that is my favorite thing to do.
I love writing stories, Nora loves acting stories,
and Ruchie loves drawing stories.
We came up with all those ways from these story cards
that we drew of things that might hatch,
making a gentle nest,
and putting an egg inside it.
All different ways to hatch your imagination.
Some of my favorite stories are ones with birds in them,
especially birds that can transform into people.
It makes me curious about the world.
What makes you curious?
In Hatch, Egg, Hatch, I was able to do that story
with my kids Nora and Ruchie.
You can do this story with your family, your friends,
or your neighbors,
or even all by yourself.
Happy creating!
(upbeat music)