![]() ![]() "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". ![]() "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters. The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries.A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.You could also cut the famous green doors of 123 Sesame Street out of card stock and add these to the backdrop too.Fun Facts and Trivia Bet you didn't know. You could make this part of your backdrop (which would help add some nice 3D elements) by stringing a line of cute baby / toddler clothes accross the top of the brick wall backdrop. I also think the clothesline, complete with laundry, in the picture below is a really nice touch. Just save them to your computer, enlarge them and print off yourself. You can use the special Paint and Color game on the Sesame Street website to print off drawings of Sesame Street characters (below center). Then add some cut outs / airwalker balloons (see below) of some of the Sesame Street characters such as Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, or Elmo so they look like they're popping their head out of the window (like Big Bird in the photos below). SESAME STREET GAMES WINDOWSUsing card stock, cut out some shapes to resemble open windows (with a window ledge, etc) and add these to the brick wall backdrop. If you're using the brick wall backdrop, start to build up the street scene by taking inspiration from the photo below of the Strong Museum of Play Sesame Street exhibit. You can also line the inside of each banana with some red fruit leather to create the inside of his mouth.įor the face: Then fill the bowl with the pineapple punch (covering the pineapple base) up to the bottom of the apple eyes / banana beak, and wrap a couple of yellow feather boas around the bowl to create Bird Bird's feathers. Repeat with another banana for the bottom part of the beak. Then, using a skewer fix the banana into the pineapple base so that the top of the banana is more or less the same height as the apple eyes. Cut 2 semi circles of orange fruit leather (or orange peel) and put these on top of the apple slice as eyelids.įor the beak: Peel a banana and cut a bit off one end to create a flat base. ![]() Then add a slice of apple (dipped in lemon juice to stop it browning) to the top of each skewer with a black grape in the middle of each. Alternatively, serve it in a punch bowl and then follow the steps below to turn the bowl into big bird's face:įor the base: Cut the top, bottom and sides off a pineapple so you're left with a large block of pineapple that will stand up in your punch bowl.įor the eyes: Stick two skewers into the top of the pineapple, so the top of the skewers stand an inch or so below the rim of your punch bowl. Serve them in these Sesame Street party cups (or sippers for younger kids) from supplier 4. Make this Yellow Pineapple Punch, from Tree Top, and call it Big Bird Punch.
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