Well Ethan has been assigned his first school project. He was to make a Velociraptor dinosaur model. At first we made up some salt dough for him to use, but the recipe that was included on the instructions seemed too flimsy, and would NOT produce a standing dinosaur. So we looked up a recipe for salt dough online and it called for an extra cup of salt. So we tried that out and Ethan made up a dinosaur. He used some popsicle sticks as a ‘skeleton’ for the arms and legs so they wouldn’t break as easily.
We left the dino on the kitchen table to dry (didn’t think about making up on a cookie sheet or something like that till after he made it). But it seemed to crumble more than it dried. As it dried it just seemed to be falling apart. Ethan was getting really frustrated during the making of the dinosaur, and then this whole falling apart business…..Ethan was almost in tears saying ‘a lego dinosaur would have been easier’. So Kyle went and bought some legos and came home from work early so Ethan could make a lego dinosaur:
Kyle made the yellow one as an example for Ethan, and Ethan made the rainbow dinosaur. The little boy sitting on the dinosaur is supposed to be Ethan, he wanted to ride his Velociraptor.
What a priceless picture! Great job Ethan!