Happy Birthday Walter Wick - February 23
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Our Favorite Can You See? book |

We gathered up the seemingly endless bags of beads and a few plastic-coated wire ties that I have been collecting from toy packaging. (yes..I save weird things like this, but my collection of random items is no where near the size of Walter Wick's, nor as organized - watch this video). I began the activity by telling my daughter that I had never done this before and that I didn't know if it was going to work. She was excited just to try something new. Below is picture of our beaded friends. We called them "Search and Solve" based on the subtitle for the Can You See What I See? books.
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Solve and Search |
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Can you see a bug, ducks in a row, 2 trees, a dinosaur, where did Search go? |
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Can you see a bear, a pig in a pen? Can you help Solve find a blue hen? |
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Search and Solve see a helicopter and a light post from Sesame Street Making these puzzle was really neat! |
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Designing another puzzle with Solve. |
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He was very excited about his creation! |
I was always an easy going kid and as long as I had a cake with marshmallow frosting, I was happy. I was a skier too, and of course in February we often had snow. Once I was so excited to be out skiing that I completely forgot it was my birthday. I didn't mind, just being out all day in the snow was the only gift I needed. I don't remember if there was a cake waiting when I went home. There probably was. My mom is 94 and she never fails to send me a card.
Recently, he also posted on his Facebook Page an interesting fact about birthdays:
Once I met a boy who had a couple dozen baseball cards. I told him that I was pretty sure two players in his pack had the same birthday. He flipped them over and discovered that, indeed, there were two matching birthdays in the stats on the back. How did I know? Because of something called the Birthday Paradox which states that from a random sample of 23 people there is a 50% chance that two will have the same birthday. So, like flipping a coin the chance I was right was about 50/50, and I lucked out.
Amazingly, with a random sampling of just 57 people, the chances go up to 99%. You can easily test this on your Facebook Page. Click the event button on the left side under profile. Underneath the events you'll see a "birthday" button. There you'll find a list of your friends birthdays. If you have more than 57 in that list it is close to certain that two will share the same birthday. You can read more about this Birthday Paradox at Wikipedia. And for anyone who happens to be reading this on their birthday, this little bit of trivia can be your gift, with best wishes from Seymour and me!
Walter Wick
Update:
We have another Walter Wick fan in our house. He has been obsessed with the books since Halloween when he fell in love with Can You See What I See? On a Scary, Scary Night. Today February 23, 2013, we spent the morning making picture puzzles. Here was our favorite, Can You See What I See? Lego. We set up all our Lego mini figures, vehicles, and sets. Can You See What I See?....two helicopters or I spy a Clone Trooper on a speeder.
Links:
1. Walter Wick's Website - Full of behind the scenes pictures!
3. Can You See What I See? - Scholastic Page (Games, Videos, Printables)
4. I Spy - Scholastic Page (Games, Parents and Teachers Section)
5. Walter Wick's Facebook Page - Become a Fan!
6. Walter Wick Studio Channel on YouTube - Great Videos!
Walter Wick Studio Tour from Lunch Productions on Vimeo.
Loved Search and Solve! AVR
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderfully creative celebration. Thanks for sharing it with us! ^_^
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