Thursday, August 5, 2010

Germ Warfare


A quick and silly paper craft this morning before breakfast - Germs.


We cut some shapes out of construction paper

and let the girls add eyes, mouths, teeth -

which even a two-year-old could sort of stick in the right spots (bravo!).

And if some small persons were a bit heavy on the glue,
it was perfectly appropriate, given the subject matter.


A cardboard stand (we cut up an old Ritz cracker box)

stuck to the backs of the germs

and we had a whole army of the wretched creatures.

Which meant war.


So we stretched a rubber band across the legs of an overturned chair,
cut the remnants of the cracker box into ammunition

took aim-

and then remembered the smallest members among
us would be better off with hand-hurled boulders
,
then faced the enemy

and wiped them all out.

Then all headed back in for morning victuals.

Suddenly Emily runs out with a toy pump bottle, and squirts
us all vigorously. "Hand sanitizer! You've been handling germs!"


Well!


I should've thought of that earlier!
Before we got all bashed up in the battle!
The wisdom of children - always leaves the grownups
(me, anyway) looking decidedly daft.

16 comments:

  1. I wish I was your kid! Your girls (and you!) have toooo much fun! :)

    I literally laughed out loud when I saw the... er... extra-gluey guy. ;)

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  2. LOL! That is such a cute and funny little idea!

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  3. This is such a cute Idea. I love your makeshift catapult.
    Ruth of Hammer & Thread

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  4. How I wish I was one of your children! They get to have so much fun!!! Lucy x

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  5. what a fun and talented and creative woman and mom you are! My little ones love destruction so I am definately going to steal this idea! Thanks for sharing!!

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  6. Just shaking my head and laughing! Loved the hand sanitizer comment - children are truly smart.

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  7. I am totally doing this today. My 3 year old and I have both had colds back to back this last couple weeks and she has been interested in germs. Thanks for posting :o).

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  8. This is FABULOUS! I'm saving this for the next "we're all sick and set on whining endlessly" day. Thanks, LiEr! =)

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  9. So great idea! Especially the catapult. Thanks for sharing it, we'll make it! :)

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  10. Oh my. I have some kids who would love this!

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  11. Hello!

    I tried your idea with the children last weekend and it was great! They loved it to design the monsters and had a lot of fun, when they shoot em up!

    Thank you for sharing your ideas!

    Kirsti from Germany

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  12. These are great! They look like so much fun! Last weekend my cousin(4) and I built your catapult and then that inspired a castle. In a couple of weeks when I go back up to visit them, I will indeed have to try this!

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  13. We made these for our afterschool program. Kids had to say one way to stay healthy and then they got a chance to shoot the germs. The more germs they knocked down the bigger a prize they got (from fruit leather to juice boxes and granola bars) They loved it and actually lined up to think of ways to keep healthy!

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