Literally.
Everyone in my county has been whipped into a panic about the temperatures today (it was a balmy 7 degrees at best - not including wind chill) and when everyone is in a frenzy things tend to get nasty. The nastiness has been displaced towards my county's school system because we, GASP, went to school! Now, ideally, this would be no big deal! Schools have heat, buses have heat, and my county announced school would run as per usual far enough in advance for parents to prepare any walkers or car rider students.
Except my school had no heat. Zero. And no electricity. Now, a lot of parents boycotted school to begin with and didn't send their kids because of the chilling temperatures so numbers weren't high...but we had zero heat. Yet somehow we were forced to remain in school until 12:15; wearing coats, hats, scarves, and mittens and completely disrupting the instructional day. Irritating? Very. Needless to say, the day was interesting, but because my faculty and staff are awesome we got through without a hitch, and mostly smiling!
All is said and done now, even though my fingers and toes can't seem to get warm, so here are some cheerful finger puppets! These finger puppets went along with the second grade curriculum on folk tales and were made using Crayola's model magic. That material is malleable enough for little second grade hands, and doesn't have the potential to break like clay does.
The students painted their puppets with craft paint then I sealed them with a gloss medium for durability and a finished, polished look. They turned out so cute!
Enjoy!
<3 Kate
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