Mama Diaries

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Sand Heads

My nine-year-old son had a school project to create a product that kids would want to buy.  This product had to be made with things around the house.  After a huge search, we found balloons and sand.

"Let's make balloon heads!" he said.

That sounded like a plan.

My son attempted to fill the balloons, but with a broken wrist, it was a little difficult.  "Mama, can you do this?"

I nodded and grabbed a funnel.  It was quite a job filling those things.  And after each one was filled, I had to blow up the balloon in order to distribute the sand evenly.  Of course that resulted in a mouth full of sand.

"Blah!" I said.  "Eating sand is not fun!"

Bubba looked at me with a serious expression on his face.  "Mama, you should be grateful. At least your whole head isn't full of sand like these guys!"

 

30 comments:

  1. Hehe! Grateful indeed! Those are cute balloons and pretty ingenious to fill them up with sand and draw the faces on them. :)

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    1. The kids at school thought they were great, too!

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  2. LOL He always looks on the bright side! :)

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  3. yes, you is so ungrateful :PPPP

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  4. They're very cute sand heads :)

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  5. Well at least he knows you have a brain.

    Yvonne.

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    1. Maybe. My head could be filled with air, though, instead of sand. ;0)

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  6. I've always known your head isn't full of sand. That's a cute project.

    Love,
    Janie

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  7. Lol! Great project and he had a good answer too!

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  8. *LOL* Always look on the bright side! Hehehe.

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    1. I wonder if he'd be so cheery if his mouth was full of sand!

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  9. These are so cool! How fun (not the sand in your mouth, but at least you son found a bright spot). ;) Looks like these could work as a stress ball, too. Maybe not with a face on them... Thanks for sharing!

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    1. My son loves stretching them and throwing them on the ground. Unbelievably, they don't break!

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  10. yeah, jeez, Shelly, why aren't you grateful?? ;)

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    1. Being from Texas, maybe she's had sand in her head and knows first-hand what it's like! ;0)

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  11. Bubba, looking on the bright side is always refreshing.

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    1. He does have a rather optimistic outlook on life!

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    1. Now don't you want to go make some sand head balloons for yourself? ;0)

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  13. Gritty sand can be rather irritating!

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