Thursday, August 1, 2024

Visit the WriteOn Joliet Booth at Kidz Fest on Saturday

Can you believe it's August already? And it's a packed month in my world: work, events, doctors appointments, family birthdays, family funeral on Friday, meeting a new grandson...and debating if I should use some of my vacation days in August or wait until September.

Hmmm...

We will kick off the festivities this Saturday when WriteOn Joliet participates in Kidz Fest for the first time this year - and we are excited!

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Will County Lot, 302 N. Chicago St. in Joliet.

Activities include magic shows, face painting, pony rides, petting zoo, roller skating, inflatable slide, and vendors, including WriteOn Joliet.

And if you come out, please by the WriteOn Joliet booth where we are all about the words! 

1. We will give way approximately 80 locally authored books for children and adults.

2. We will have 140 FREE bookmarks to color on site or at home.

3. We will distribute special subscription offers to The Herald-News in Joliet.

4. We will also have word finds and crossword puzzles based on some of the books.

But the main event is... (yes, keep scrolling)
3. 

Our word blocks!

Kids and adults alike can manipulate our 48 double-sided blocks (so 96 words in all) to create fun sentences and simple short stories.

Here are three examples.








Where did we buy them? We didn't. We invented them!

We took child-safe wood blocks, curated a list of words, and then the very talented Jasmine and her Cricut added white backgrounds and each letter one at a time.

We've tried them out at home, and they are lots of fun. You might not want to stop at just one sentence.

WriteOn Joliet will also have information about the group as a whole and individual authors separately.

We hope you will leave our table more excited about reading and writing then before you arrived.

For more information, visit writeonjoliet.com, bryonyseries.com, and jolietccp.com/kidz-fest.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe your word blocks will be the next Uno or Boggle.

Denise M. Baran-Unland said...

Maybe. Several parents asked us where we bought them. I couldn't find anything like this to buy. So we had to make them. :)