Repurposing Projects

Little Guy came home with a play dough spider he made during his "Orange" week.  He was very proud of the spider web he drew with chalk as well.  He wanted to show everyone what he had made.

The next day Little Man tells me he has a project due in the morning as I'm leaving for work and BB's needing a ride to soccer.  Sigh.  Why is every school project so last minute?  He needed to make a Native American Kachina doll.  The doll needed to represent an important aspect of life, and Little Man wanted to do it based around the sun.  I was desperately hoping I wasn't going to have to make a late night run to the store for this project.  He hunted through the trash for a toilet paper roll we knew was there from earlier that morning and cut out the base from a box.  The problem became the head.  We didn't have any Styrofoam or a ball just the right size.  We were in the kitchen discussing this issue when Little Guy's spider caught my eye.  I said we should try to use play dough for the head, and it worked!  We were even able to use the pipe cleaners.  Wahoo!  Luckily, Little Guy was asleep when we took his spider and used it. He's already forgotten about it, and I won't be reminding him.

We raided my scraps bin, and started hot glue-gunning the doll together.  We even found old flame decals from his pine wood derby car to use on the dress.  Gratefully, it all worked out.  Little Man says it kind of looks like the Statue of Liberty with a sun burn.  Another project in the books!