Making a puppet

So, my daughter is to read a certain number of chapter books each quarter. She meets with her teacher each week to talk about the book and set new goals for her to meet in reading the book. She never has a problem meeting and then also exceeding those goals. SHE LOVES TO READ! I love it that she loves to read! One of the books she read was The Fish in Room 11. It is about a family of mermaids/mermen that save a human child, raise him for a year while living in a cave near the ocean and then leave him for a certain human to find so that she will raise him. When the baby grows to a boy, they meet him again and then pose as humans (wheelchair bound humans) so that they can spend time with the boy. Okay, now back to the point. Allison needs to pick one book and then do a quarter project for that book. She chose to make a puppet of one of the main characters and then write a brief introduction of that character. These are pictures I took as my husband and I helped her make that puppet. I have to say that this puppet is so cool. My husband went to the craft store with our daughter to pick out supplies. We actually sewed a felt square to a Nerf ball for the head. We ironed on the face features. We sewed on each strand of hair. We made the fin and body sections from felt. The head is held firmly in place using a skewer that is pushed into the Nerf ball and extends down into the body so that there is something to hold on to. All this was made without any patterns. The design came mainly from our daughter with the technical means to put it together came from my husband and I. I made a point to have my daughter DO the work and not have the parents do all the work. I think she did a wonderful job. She is so excited about taking it to school tomorrow. I am so very proud of her as well. I'm also a little proud of myself and my husband for being creative enough with the stuff we had around the house to help put this whole thing together.

We're all so exhausted from this. I still had four sections of chemistry grades to enter this evening. End of quarters are hard work. Thank goodness there are only three more quarters to go for this school year!