Little One turned in her turkey yesterday. What began as a caricature of a turkey on brown construction paper by the teacher became a cheer leader turkey.
I had suggested to Little One that we make "paper doll" clothes for the turkey, cut them to shape, color them, and them glue them on the turkey. I was met the disapproving eyes of my daughter. She had seen outfits at the dollar store and wanted to get those, cut them and affix to the construction paper.
I agreed. We collected the little cloth bits and she set to work, cutting out the turkey from its paper prison, measuring the outfit, and cutting it to fit. Using glue she affixed the costume to the turkey. She made a cartoon "speech bubble" to have the turkey make a cheer. It looked quite nice.
Presently we are taking a coffee and snack break from working on her Pueblo. She was asking me about Indian dwellings last week as she prepared for her project and asked if I had any pictures. We dug through and old trunk and found an album of photos from a trip I took with her late grandfather and late great uncle in the summer of '87. Photos were of us climbing through the ruins at Mesa Verde. It was a magnificent place. I am glad we took a lot of pictures because I had pneumonia at the time and was very feverish a tad delirious.
We used scrap cardboard taped together to form the frame of the pueblo, and cut some windows and doors. We covered the structure with modeling clay, and used the same clay to affix it to the cardboard base. Later we will paint it with water colors and build some ladders out of twigs. I will try to find some little toy indians, too, but they will probably not be the right scale.
