Care Corner Photo Journal Page 135
Sheila Sims Iding
When you are in first grade long enough, things can get old. Projects can get outdated. And lessons can be obsolete. You change them, revise them or pitch them after so many years. But not this one. Not this project. It’s the same every year. And although I have probably done the project 20 years in a row, it’s a new project every year because it’s new to the kids making them. It’s our 3-D tulips. It’s a tricky art project of tracing, cutting, folding and gluing. It’s not really hard. Just tricky. And to make them beautiful you have to do the tracing and the cutting carefully. But the trickiest part for some is choosing the colors. The only rule…it has to be two different colors. It’s fun to watch them decide which colors to get and even more fun to watch the flowers “bloom”. The best part is we give our tulips away (for a few weeks) to decorate the office windows and Mrs. Piecuch’s windows. And every time we walk by the tulips, we are think of spring and giving and flower gardens and we know…’tis the season.