The girls' school had some fun spring activities. Wendy's class participated in the Earth Day Fair, and Wendy and her friend Brielle made a dolls' sofa out of bottle bricks! I had learned about bottle bricks from one of my housemates in Orlando and we had started making them at home after I came back. Basically bottle bricks are plastic bottles stuffed with dry trash which then can be used for construction. Schools are being built from bottle bricks in India and Latin America, and there is an organization in the United States which is working to help kids build "peace benches" from bottle bricks at their schools. I had originally had the grand scheme of constructing patio furniture from our bottle bricks, which was kindly vetoed by Chris, so it seemed a sofa for the American Girl dolls was a good compromise!
Then there was the Renaissance Day Fair, when the playground and field behind the school was transformed into a medieval fairground complete with climbing wall, face painting, arts and crafts, games and even a sponge toss which Papi was game enough to volunteer for! Fer happily took part in trying to hit him with the sponge, but alas, no luck this year. Maybe next time!
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