A Pooh-fect Time of Year

As a kid I loved Winnie the Pooh, probably because my grandmother (who watched me during the day) thought Winnie the Pooh was the best. As I was older and babysitting for family and friends, I used to watch The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and even had a few laughs then. One year for my outside display I decided to create a Pooh theme. After finding that you cannot purchase large prints or posters of the Pooh characters I found black and white images and copied them on transparencies and used the overhead to blow them up to “life size.” I traced each character on its primary color (e.g., orange for Tigger or pink for Piglet) and then used markers, construction paper, and paint to color the other key to match. After I had my life size shapes I put them outside in the hallway on top of a “100 Acre Forest” scene I had created from bulletin board paper (basically a blue background, green grass, and a tree trunk). I then placed the characters around the display so they looked like they were having a great time and wrote on the top “It’s a Pooh-fect Time to be in Kindergarten.” Around Pooh and his honey pot I glued bees with each child’s name on it.

As excited as I was about Pooh and his friends, I learned that year that Dora was much bigger than Pooh with my class. Something like “It’s a Dora-ific Time to be in Kindergarten” may have been more popular, but at least I enjoyed my trip down memory lane. J