Sacajewea (pronounced Sakakawea)

The end of the school year is slightly more elaborate now then I remember as a kiddo. The third grade is putting on a Wax Museum - there will be a Talent Show the Friday before the end of the Year - the Kindergarten class is hosting a Mothers Day Tea - Kindergarten is also doing something EVERY day to celebrate the last few days of class (gum day, Clifford day, hat day, etc.) - and then there are the traditional Track & Field, Game Days, etc. Even the last day is different - there is a Last Full Day on Thursday and then the Last Day - which is only 1 hr. long!! Seriously - starts at 8:10 and gets out at 9:10. So....this weekend we worked on some of the homework that SuperStar had - her Sacajewea Wax Museum project. This involved making a Shadow Box about Sacajewea, a speach (which she did in class) and finding a costume made our of household stuff to transform her into Sacajewea.

We were lucky enough to have Nona (Morgan), our neighbor from STL, here visiting us. She is as creative as SuperStar and I are and she knows how to sew much better then I do (although she did encourage me to do a lot of the sewing myself and she supervised me - until we got to the papoose - yes, we made a papoose).

Late on Sunday (because we had the day filled) we started on the simple sewing project. It really was easy - then SuperStar said, "Oh, I need a papoose for Pomp." Then we got our thinking caps on, started to create what seemed like a mess and turned into a small creative masterpiece. Once we were done with the sewing parts SuperStar took over and did the Indian Designing on the fabric. These pictures show the process - once she performs the Wax Museum at school on Thursday we will show the finished product. It really did turn out Super Cute! and all for $4!!

Thank You Nona!!!