Ella's Project

Don't you love when teachers assign a project that their students are supposed to do with their parents? Do teachers actually think that the student and parent will be joyfully sitting down at the kitchen table one Saturday afternoon while classical music plays in the back and we snack on wholesome goodies fresh from the oven and together design and assemble this wonderful project as we build lasting memories and giggle over long forgotten funny tidbits? WRONG!! When a teacher assigns a project that the student and parent is supposed to work on together, it ends up being a project that the parent does mostly by him/herself while the student runs around the house spraying all the creative art materials you scrounged together all over the house. Usually while holding a pair of sharp scissors. So, Ella's kindergarten class was assigned to do a family project, using four pieces of paper to show their family members, using pictures, stickers, drawings, etc. (you get the idea) This project had been looming over my head for the past four weeks and finally on Sunday I got serious and took Ella upstairs to look through all my stamps, stickers, and art supplies from my past creative scrapbooking days. Left alone, she would have stamped every inch of the walls and poured glitter all over herself in an attempt to look glamorous. I intervened and tried to direct the flow of creative juices to just the paper we were given. I printed out some pictures on the computer, let Ella choose which stamps and which colors to use, and we ended up with some fun pages depicting our family. Here's Ella with the final project:




And here's Mason playing hide and seek in a blanket while Ella and I finished her project: