the pondering pomegranate: walk&roll

according to all sorts of publications, i have one of the best jobs in the world. (okay, "in the world" might be a bit of a stretch, but....) i love what i do, especially on days like today. i really like many things about my work, but i loooooove adapting activities. today, we had a walk/roll/run fundraiser followed by lunch and games. in keeping with the theme, i got two pairs of used children's shoes (paying special attention to the tread designs, of course) and two wheeled vehicles (with similar inspection of tread potential). i hot-glued rounded dowels in the heels of one pair of shoes & hot-glued foam tubing in the heels of the other pair. perhaps unnecessarily (blame it on the hot-glue fumes), i also hot-glued the axle of the little yellow bulldozer so it would run in a straight line (i won't go down the rabbit's hole of my clinical reasoning on this one....but, suffice it to say, i had some). i considered converting the chicken car into a gator car (our school mascot is an alligator), but that proved entirely too complicated (and slippery).

everything just so

it occurs to me that, maybe, i should tell you that many of the children i work with at this particular school use a wheelchair to get from one place to another.

&, for most of these children, someone else does the pushing.

so i wanted to make sure to represent the way they travel, which is on wheels.

(although not in bulldozers or chicken cars.)

some of these children also have a difficult time holding things.

didn't they make some fantastic

walk&roll art?

my original activity idea was to make unpoppable bubbles, as advertised on t.v. (or, at least, pinterest). no, that's a lie. i don't do pinterest. i saw it on facebook. but why, on earth, is it a food recipe? does the corn syrup qualify it? sorry, back on topic. well, it was going to rain, so suddenly our outdoor plans had to become indoor....and i scrapped the exuberant bubbles for sedate painting. but, then, the morning dawned sunny - so i just did them both! & neither was very sedate. which was fine by me. really, it's a surprise i didn't throw glitter everywhere, as that has become my trademark. i will admit i considered it.