peer puppets

our camp fire meeting last week was about peer pressure and dealing with it (i gave an example of how the popular kids or "sosh's" as they were called sat at a "special" table when i was a kid and if you didnt have the right shoes and clothes, you werent allowed to eat there: the girls seemed genuinely interested in this!) i really enjoyed this meeting, it is a topic i want to discuss more and will probably drive the girls nuts with! being "popular" and in the "in crowd" was a big deal growing up for me, not entirely sure why i cared so much, but i guess it was important to fit in. anyways, i am on a brainwashing quest to keep my girls from putting any importance on looks, clothes, money or any other superficial way people judge each other. so that was the lesson and it went very well. we made super cool fabric puppets, my original goal was to have the girls use them to play act some "peer drama" but we just had fun with them instead.

here is the original puppet idea, i like this much better but needed a project that could be done in one hour. it was funny how the girls made their puppet "hands" pretty big and then boxed with them, oh well! stamping out peer pressure i guess!