Paige the penguin

Mya was assigned the African Penguin for her class project. I asked her if she wanted to make a pinata... of course she was all over that. I figured it would be simple (it ended up being very complicated). She worked on it for a week and just when she was getting ready to attach the head it rolled off the table and fell on the floor and cracked the whole pinata. Tears streamed down her face.... she was so sad! I stayed up and paper mache'd the body and did my best to fix the broken pinata. I found out that the best way for Mya to apply the newspaper was to use a silicone basting brush. Just put the newspaper on the plate and paint on the flour mixture. It worked really well and she was able to apply the newspaper without getting it all over, and it looked clean and smooth..

The bad thing about this pinata was it was all trial and error. It didn't help that we had to fix it. Yippy we got the head on and it worked!!
It was getting late and she still had to apply the beak. It was taking forever and Mya was getting tired of holding the dryer, so of course I stayed up and tried to get it to dry.
The girls feel asleep during the drying of the beak. Once it was dry I had to wake Mya up to finish her penguin. I have to say that I really didn't want to wake her up, I just wanted to finish it for her so she could sleep, but I new that probably wouldn't be a good idea (She would have been so MAD at me!!!). Good thing she got her report done early or we could have pulled a all nighter! In the end this ended up being a great project and lots of fun! Not to mention she was so proud of her penguin and her accomplishment!

Everyone meet Paige the penguin!