Giddy to have an activity kit out with the brilliant folks at Candlewick Press. Nothing like working with the best designers in the country to make you look quite suave.
To be exact it is a Non-Activity Kit for animation genius, Tony Fucile‘s hilarious picture book, Let’s Do Nothing. Characters, Frankie and Sal have worn themselves out by doing everything so they decide to try doing nothing for a change.
Poor bespectacled Frankie’s overactive imagination makes him anything but Zen. When told to “be the tree,” he imagines being peed on by the dog. When told to “be the heavy, tall Empire State Building” he imagines King Kong mounting his heights.
Given the task of creating an event kit for kids to gather and do, well, nothing, I was stumped. I finally had to tell myself if Tony Fucile (of The Incredibles fame) was coming tomorrow and I was supplying a roomful of kids, what the heck would we do?
Then the ideas came in on cat feet–a balance challenge (thank you yoga), a staring challenge, a “don’t make me laugh” challenge and a good-old-American-kids-bored-at-family-parties game of statues. And then my first ever board game–The Game of Nothing (will the Candlewick designer forgive me for this one…).
Please–if you are tempted to do nothing in response to this post, buy the book to get the instructions first.
