A different kind of Book Report

E had a book report project due this past Friday. The project to accompany his report was called, "Recycle a Scene." What this entailed was for the kids to pick out a favorite scene in their book, draw a picture, paste it into a shoebox lid and then use recylables (a.k.a. TRASH) to decorate it.

oh, joy...

So E chose the scene from James and The Giant Peach where the peach of enormous size has come away from the tree, rolled down the hill (after smushing Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker) and on its way down the hill, has crashed through THE chocolate factory (Willy Wonka's to be sure!) sending rivers of chocolate rushing out of the factory. The children (and even some of the adults) around the town, rush out and swim and play and drink in the chocolate. This chocolatey part was E's favorite part of the story (mine was where the horrible aunts were smushed flat!). So he drew the scene and we decorated it with what we could think of. Not the prettiest looking project, but interesting...

We put some chocolate syrup in a baggie and taped that behind his picture where the peach crashed through the walls. The peach itself is a lid off of a honey jar. I DID draw the peach on after E went to bed, traced over some of the kids he drew with a marker (otherwise, they looked like bugs!) and generally did everything that required the hot glue gun. Fortunately, that was not much...most of the stuff could go on with just regular glue or tape. :) I love his little characters riding inside the peach! Too fun!