Piedmont Harvest Festival

Today was the big fall fundraiser in Piedmont. All the schools get together for a harvest festival. Since Piedmont is so small, it seems the whole town comes. Each class was asked to make a scarecrow to auction off. With only two weeks to do that, Jeanne-Marie (my co-room parent for kindergarten) and I decided on easy idea that kids could actually do. So one day after school, they stuffed newspapers in leotards and pants and then dressed them up like trick or treaters. They were very homemade looking, but we figured it would be fine.

We brought them to the festival today and saw all the other scarecrows and realized how naive we were. Even so, there were two bids on our scarecrows before we left the festival.







Parker (and everyone else) liked the angry bird one and it had many bids.



I knew there would be face painting with long lines so I painted their faces before we left and did a better job than they would have gotten there. Parker wanted an angry bird on his face and I couldn't figure out how to do it, so Michael did.



The kids played carnival type games for really crappy prizes, waited in long lines for food, made masks and saw friends from school. They had fun.