6 Little Munchkins and How They Grew: Turkeys (and forgetten pics of the hat parade)

I forgot to blog about the hat parade. Every year the elementary school does a science hat parade and each kid (I think it's voluntary in the older grades) makes a hat that represents one of the science words for that year. This year we sort of forgot about it. The hats were due Tues, Oct 27th. I remembered as I was at the gym with Christy around 9:30pm on Monday night. The other years we've done hats, Megan and I have decided on the word and then put them together. Due to our forgetfulness, this year I made them. We couldn't find Kylie's list (man, this post is making me out to be a wonderful and organized mom!), but I knew that Meg's list in kindergarten had included words like flower, leaf, and roots, so I made multiple big white flowers out of felt and sewed them onto on of our dress up hats. I made Megan a hat that could be either the ice, water and steam or solid, liquid and gas, by stitching some stuffing to the top of a hat, attaching a blue wave-shaped piece of fabric around where the band would be and using thread to hang a blue square block from each side. Next year, we are making the hats the when they bring home the paper!

I've never actually gone to watch the hat parade as it's at 8:30am and after getting Megan off to school, it would have been difficult to get the other three up and dressed and down to the school in under 30 mins. This year I had a dr's appt at 9:15am though, so Rob stayed home to watch the kids and I left a bit early and watched the hat parade. None of the pictures turned out great, but at least I got one of each girl! (It was also their "fight drugs" week, where they have a theme for each day - like Tuesday was "give drugs the boot" and they got to wear boots. Friday - the day of the parade - was "team up against drugs" and they wore clothing with their favorite sports team - in this house there is only one possibility on days like that and that's Red Sox clothes!)

Yesterday afternoon we made turkeys to replace the Halloween designs in our front window. It was the first year that all four kids were old enough to really have fun doing it (last year Jack just ate the pieces I cut out for him). All I do is cut out a body, head and neck, feathers and feet. I don't give them any directions beyond that, but let them figure out what they want to do with it. I was really impressed with Beth's turkey. She's never put her turkey together in a way that looked much like a turkey (granted, last year she was only 2). They all had a lot of fun gluing everything together and then coloring their turkeys!

Kylie attached 6 of her 7 feathers to the back of her turkey, then flipped it over and attached the last one to the front. Her turkey is also apparently looking up at the sky :)

Jack loved smearing glue all over the middle of his turkey's body, the slapping the feathers down one on top of the other. We decided he was going for a more Picasso approach this year :) He did put his turkey head on the side of the top, however he turned it around so the head part is glued to the body and the neck is sticking straight up, complete with a beak sticking up at the end.

After gluing the feet on (one right side up, one upside down), Jack decided his turkey was finished. He was delighted with it! He picked it up and had it dancing around on the table in front of him while he sang.