In preschool, our youngest was assigned the project of creating a foot family. For those that don’t know what that is and can’t figure it out from the picture, it is essentially a picture made up of outlines of each family members foot, turned into something fun and supposedly represents our family.
My wife likes to take these types of projects on as a personal challenge. She doesn’t think that she’s very crafty, but I think she really underestimates what she can do. So last Sunday, we headed off to the local craft store to find everything that we would need to make a castle setting with a king, queen, and two princesses…out of feet. Unfortunately, our favorite store for these things, Hobby Lobby, was closed on Sunday, so we headed over to Michael’s.
Needless to say, they didn’t have many of the things we needed and definitely not in the size that would be in scale to our feet. This caused us to have to rethink what we were going to be. I took the kids so mom could reevaluate the situation. Eventually, we decided to head over to the Dollar Tree store to see if they had anything that we could use.
Surprisingly, they had just the right items to turn our feet into the barn animals you see in the picture. For $5, my wife bought construction paper and 4 kits that are normally used to turn paper bags into puppets. Needless to say, it turned out to be a success and I’m sure it’s the best foot family in the class. So while the craft stores may have a lot of options, they may not be the best or cheapest option.