Volume 1, Issue 2
November 2009
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“The Official Newsletter of the GAC Big Partner Little Partner Program”
Thrills & Chills: BPLP Halloween Party
See page 2 for the winners
of the BPLP Halloween
Costume Contest!
On Thursday, October 29,
the Gustavus Campus
was filled with
swashbuckling pirates,
prom queens and gumball
machines as part of this
year’s annual BPLP Halloween Party.
For this year’s event, BPs
and LPs got to play games
such as BINGO and
Spooky Musical Chairs, do
crafts like pumpkin decorating and ghost suckers
and, of course, go Trick-Or
-Treating throughout some
of the campus dorms. This
year, BPLP gave out over
150 bags of Halloween
candy.
As always, the Halloween
Party is one of the most
favorite and most attended
events of this year.
BPLP on GAC TV
Watch the GAC TV Story
on Big Partner Little
Partner, featuring BP
Phil Helt and LP Josh
Ellerbeck as CoReporters. Watch it at:
http://orgs.gustavus.edu/
Page 2
HANDPRINTS
BPLP Halloween Contest Winners
Little Red Riding Hood and
the Big Bad Wolf
Giant Gumball Machines
Mad Scientist
Volume 1, Issue 2
Page 3
BPLP Craft of the Month: Make a Paper Cup Turkey
Kids can make several of these paper
cup turkeys to be used as place cards
for the big Thanksgiving feast!
What You’ll Need:
Paper or foam cup (8.5 oz)
Acrylic paint in fall colors (brown,
tan, orange, red, green, yellow,
etc.)
Large pom-pom for head (brown,
yellow, red, orange, etc.)
Small foam heart for gobbler (to
contrast with color of head)
Small foam triangle (orange or
yellow)
2 small wiggle eyes
3” or 2” piece of orange construction paper
1 sheet of white construction paper
White craft glue
Scissors
Directions:
1. Place cup upside down on work
surface and paint brown.
2. To make the feathers, paint the
white construction paper with several fall colors, crisscrossing as you
go. Let dry.
3. Cut feathers out in one large piece;
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should be shaped similar to a hand
or crown. Cut the tips of each
feather into a point.
Apply glue to the bottom portion of
the feathers and press onto the
bottom of the cup. Hold in place
for a minute or so to let the glue
grab.
Place form heart upside down so
that the bumps are facing downward. Glue the foam triangle,
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point down, onto the upside down
heart—the upper points of the
triangle will be hanging over the
edge. This is the beak and gobbler.
Glue the pom-pom to the top of the
paper cup.
Glue the wiggle eyes and the beak
and gobbler to the head.
Cut two feet from the orange construction paper and glue to the
bottom of the cup.
BPLP Pair of the Month: Hannah & Zachery
November’s BPLP Pair of the Month is Senior
English Major Hannah Twinton and 5th Grader
Zachery Manko. This is their second year in the
program and they love playing chess (see photo)
and pretending to be Lord of the Rings or Star
Wars characters.
Hannah and Zachery are both obsessed with reading and are both avid readers of Tolkien. Hannah
describes Zachery as “very creative, smart, and
great at impersonating characters from films. He
is always thinking of or creating new characters.”
At the BPLP Halloween Party, Hannah was a Jedi
Knight and Zachery was a phantom. Hannah says,
“Zach enjoyed trick-or-treating around campus and
blending in with the shadows in his phantom costume.”
Find a Good
Book...
Scholastic Book Fair
December 2 - 6, 2009
12 - 6 pm in the Gustie Den
Don’t miss this month’s MOUTH-WATERING EVENT:
Sponsored by the
Gustavus Student Educators Association
Monday, November 16, 6 - 7:30 pm
- ALUMNI HALL Come learn about healthy choices at the dinner
table by listening to a guest speaker, eating
healthy snacks and playing fun games
(including relay races)!
Nominate a pair as our BPLP Pair of the Month! E-mail [email protected].
Gustavus Adolphus College
Community Service Center
800 W. College Ave
St. Peter, MN 56082
Be sure to check out the Big
Partner Little Partner website for
updates on events, activity ideas,
fun pictures, monthly evaluations, and
contact information.
www.gac.edu/communityservice/bplp