Before you begin reading this post from the past, I feel like I need to remind you that it was written before Hobby Lobby came to town.
From The Past: September 25, 2006
Ashley’s class has been assigned to make Native American shelters. She has to construct four different types of shelters at home and be creative with the entire thing for a grade.
In my opinion, this didn’t sound too bad until Ashley started repeating what she had been told about how tough each shelter would be evaluated.
Apparently, the village needs to be sturdy enough to withstand a tornado. I am being a smart aleck here, but you get my point.
We spent hours on Saturday shopping for the materials needed for this project. Walmart didn’t have near the items needed, so we headed over to Lexington to shop in Michael’s.
We spent around $20 on materials, but they didn’t have brown crepe paper, which was suggested on the instruction sheet. Therefore, we knew we would have to go to Garden Ridge. (We are trying to have Ashley follow the instruction sheet as much as possible in hopes of her receiving a better grade.)
We had no luck in Garden Ridge, so we tried Party City. I figured if anyone had brown crepe paper, they would.
Nope.
We bought white crepe paper and figured Ashley could paint it brown. That didn’t work though. Crepe paper is much thinner than we thought and it tore with each brushstroke. Kevin is considering having Ashley glue the white crepe paper onto the shelter and then spray paint the whole thing brown. (The crepe paper is supposed to simulate bark on a Longhouse.)
Kevin has been helping Ashley with this project and he says there is no way a ten-year-old could construct all of these shelters without help. If a ten-year-old did do all of this alone, the grade in the end would show reflect that.
We still haven’t found realistic looking people to add to the project ….