Die! - orama

 

The project that would not die!

We were excited and ambitious as we started off on Nathan's diorama of a scorpion.  We even kept up momentum pretty well through the sculpting with clay and painting of the cactus and almost 20 separate parts of the scorpion Nathan created to glue together (including 7 sections of the main body).  Determined to help it get safely to school (we have a bad track record of dropping special projects on the sidewalk on the way to school -- shattering two things so far this year) we dropped Nathan carefully off right in front of his classroom. 

Somehow by the time he made it inside a few legs had broken off and trying to get it safely back home to fix it...it only got worse!  I was so frustrated that we'd almost gotten rid of the thing and it arrive back home severely damaged by afternoon.  Nathan spent the evening glue-gunning again, and I thought we were done. 

The next morning I woke up at 6:30 a.m. to banging...and dashed down to find Nathan adding a "finishing touch".  His friend had crushed graham crackers to put as sand in the bottom of hers, and he thought he'd do the same.  Only after he'd crushed and spread them all over the bottom did he realize that gluing each crumb on might be tricky.  

Needless to say, I carried the diorama in the classroom that morning, handed it straight to the teacher, and told her I never wanted to see it again!  The teacher assured me these are the things that create such fond memories later.  All I can say is it's going to take an awful lot of forgetting before then!