Where to begin: Well, first, in the theme of Pirate week, we made treasure chests today. The girls painted them, Mike and I built them. It was definitely a process. Penny's is the blue one, iris' is obviously the pink one... and yes, I will admit it, I put Iris' together and it does NOT look as good as the one Mike put together, therefore, I used Penny's as the main model. It is pretty self explanitory how we put it all together, cut 5 Popsicle sticks in half to make the sides, then used a popsicle stick to glue the inside of the half ones. We used partial popsicle sticks to make "strapping" on each of the boxes and then used the strapping to glue the sides together. On the bottom, we just glued popsicle sticks. And for a hinge, we used a piece of felt. They are kind of crude, who knows how long they will hold up, but the girls insisted on going to bed with them tonight, and they have been calling them their "Team Treasure Chest"s all night. They are also looking for Gold Doubloons to put inside of the treasure chests... i think we are making Gold Doubloons tomorrow, and possibly decorating the outsides of the chests tomorrow as well. But, here's what they look like for now!
(PS, i ended up painting penny's treasure chest because she painted 2 sticks and was done lol)
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