Nope, your eyes are not decieving you, that is TWO TONS of breakfast cereal in the form of Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night!"
As you may know, I am currently doing my student teaching at Sky View high school in Smithfield. I am teaching 11th grade English and 12th grade Humanities. The teacher of the humanities class that I am working with, Doyle Geddes, has been dreaming about a giant work of art made out of cereal. Last weekend, his dream came true!
In his classes each trimester, his students make a small, poster-sized picture out of breakfast cereal, and he has been wanting to make a giant one for a long time. This work of art took months of planning and weeks of preparation for the big project. We had to lay down plastic and create a template, using a homemade grid, then we put down caulking around the lines of the template (to hold the cereal in the designated areas), and then we put the cereal down. It was cool that I got to be a part of it, but it was a lot of work. Malt-O-Meal donated the two tons of cereal, and "Ripley's Believe it or Not" came to document it-- so look for it in their next book, it will be in there! As you scroll down, you can see a little bit of the process that we went through to create it. It is the WORLD'S LARGEST recreation of any work of art made out of breakfast cereal!!! Oh, and don't worry, the cereal wasn't wasted, it went to a pig farmer to feed his pigs.
It took me a while, but finally did it! I graduated from college!! My graduation day was perfect, thanks to Kyle! Kyle was so sweet, he planned and arranged everything for the whole day. We had cake and we went out to dinner, it was a great day! Thanks to everyone who came, it was awesome to have everyone there! And thanks to everyone who gave me gifts and cards, I really appreciate it!! I feel so lucky to have so many people that care about me! Thanks everybody!
Sophia really liked this bear mask that she got there... we thought she looked really cute and funny.
There were some really cute baby bears.
Of course the bouncy house was Sophia's favorite part of the day, we had to drag her out of it after her turn was over.
We went to the park to play after we saw all of the baby animals. Sophia got to kick her soccer ball around. She loves to play soccer, and she is getting pretty good at it.
The girls searched the yard for the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid.
Junie had fun tasting the eggs while the other girls gathered them up.
The Easter Bunny brought Sophie some fun things this year.
She got lots of presents!
And we played some fun games!
Kaycee made this cute "pin the kiss on the frog" game! Thanks Kaycee!
We came home to find a great surprise after school on Wednesday!!
We followed the footprints, and we found some surprises.
We followed the footprints in the living room first, and we found a plate of candy and gold coins for Sophia!! Then, they led us into the kitchen....
In the kitchen, we found our milk had been transformed. Sophia has been telling everyone that a little man turned our milk green.
The best part of this St. Patrick's Day experience is that we found out that Sophia loves colored milk. She drank 4 cups of milk on St. Patrick's Day, which is incredible considering that we normally have to beg her to drink just one cup.
So, thank you leprechauns for giving us the idea to color Sophie's milk..... I'm thinking next week we will go with purple.