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February 28, 2026 at 12:28 am Reply

Kay McCormack

Hi my book club loved Restart and requested reading another book by Gordon Korman. I’m thinking about either Ungifted or Slacker. I’m just trying to come up with a good craft to go with it. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
February 28, 2026 at 02:57 am Reply

Fii🤪

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@Kay McCormack those are good choices! I was in a nature summer camp once and we made tinfoil robots, so you could do those for UNGIFTED, and we also made beaver lodges out of peanut butter and pretzel sticks, so that could work for SLACKER.
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@Kay McCormack those are good choices! I was in a nature summer camp once and we made tinfoil robots, so you could do those for UNGIFTED, and we also made beaver lodges out of peanut butter and pretzel sticks, so that could work for SLACKER.
March 3, 2026 at 07:50 pm Reply

Korman Junkie

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Mini robots out of tin cans, paper beaver cutouts. Look here for a good one:

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Mini robots out of tin cans, paper beaver cutouts. Look here for a good one:

https://www.google.com/imgres?q=beaver%20craft&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi2.wp.com%2Finthebagkidscrafts.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fbeaver-craft-featured-image-2.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Finthebagkidscrafts.com%2Fbeaver-craft-for-kids%2F&docid=vC4cH0C-dEyVwM&tbnid=zymh4Ir3tVhQZM&vet=12ahUKEwjYzM29v4STAxVmE1kFHWlDMAMQnPAOegQIGhAB..i&w=800&h=800&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwjYzM29v4STAxVmE1kFHWlDMAMQnPAOegQIGhAB