Sunday dress and hair 5-22-11

 

Even though it’s actually Monday, here is Elle’s dress and hair from yesterday:

 

And here are a couple cute pictures we took last week of Elle and Chris.  Elle is making a Father’s Day gift for Chris in Activity Days, and the pictures will be part of it.

 

 

It was very sunny, so they’re  squinting a bit.

Still sweet though

 

And here is Elle’s Market Day raffle item:

 

She and her friend will be Market Day business partners.

The 4th graders get to make items, then “sell” them to other 4th graders, 2nd graders, 5th graders and parents.  The kids at school earn fake money for different things—being good,  doing their various tasks, etc.  We parents get an endless supply of cash to buy whatever we want.

The students have to think of something to make that costs less than 20 real dollars.  It’s hard to know what to make that will appeal to 2nd graders-adults.  It’s also hard to know how many items to make, and how much to charge for them.  They love it!  It’s like  going to your typical fair where there are hundreds of items and booths (in this case desks)

Elle and her friend are making little bean bags.  They also decided to make bead animals.

For their raffle, they wanted to make a giant bean bag.  I was relieved to find out that “ giant” was only the size pictured above.

I looked on a blog to find out how to make a ball, and it seemed pretty easy.  Just cut some petal shapes, sew them together, then applique a circle on each end to cover up the messy spots.

Well, it didn’t   quite turn out like I thought, so I turned to Chris, knowing that he would most likely come up with a complicated solution.

I was right about the complicated solution, but wrong about the ease of the execution.

First, he looked online for scholarly papers on how to cover a sphere.  Then, after studying the formulas and explanations, he came up with the perfect size panel for the ball.

When the girls sewed it together, it lined up perfectly (or nearly so), and we didn’t need to applique anything on the ends!

That’s my guy!