The Giraffe Blob

Kate had her first major school project to do for the first grade. She is to give a presentation in front of her class on the animal of her choice. She choose...(drum roll, please)...the GIRAFFE!

You can see the lovely poster board she created complete with her hand-drawn "giraffe blob" in the middle. I helped her find facts online and she had to select five to talk about.

I am not a creative genius when it comes to artistic or crafty things. I know some mothers relish doing craft projects with their children but I end up looking at the 5,000 bead box they get for their birthday and inwardly groaning. I am a great Momzilla for reading books (we are currently reading through the entire "Ramona" series by Beverly Clearly...and I am laughing more hysterically than the girls are) and for teaching life skills. But most my "crafty" days involved 4-H projects that still leave me scarred (don't get me started on my lack of sewing skills).

Back in my 4-H days, the crafts of choice where the wire hangers bent into a heart shape with rags knotted around the perimeter. And the lovely painted wooden heart-shaped wall hanger (three hearts with pegs coming out of the center of each heart) that held candles on a string. God bless the country blue and mauve era of the late 1980s!


Anyhoo, as I reel back from my digressions...I cringe whenever school projects are due but the results are sure fun to watch:

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