Christmas Tree

Apparently Ladybugs teacher is intent on sending home one major craft project a month.  Last month we had to decorate a turkey so that it doesn't look like a turkey.  So we turned it into a butterfly.

This month she sent home a Christmas tree.  The instructions:
1) The tree is divided into 10 sections.  Each section must contain different decorations.
2) The first section must have 1 item in it.  The second section must have 2 items in it.  And so on.
3) Do NOT buy anything to complete this project.

Easy enough?  Hopefully.  And I am happy I don't have to spend money.  Because I have none to spend.

Ladybug is so excited.  Some of the other kids have turned theirs in already and she can't wait to do hers.  She wants to put marshmallows and beans and pasta on hers.  I don't waste food.  Because I don't have a lot of extra food in the house.  I don't have marshmallows.  Ladybug is pretty sure that makes me a bad mama.  I don't have dried beans.  I do have dried split yellow peas.  I have pasta.  But it is not small macaroni.  It is farfalle and rotini. 

And then I remembered.  Last year we created all our own Christmas decorations.  I had bought things to glue on the decorations.  I rooted through her crafts and found the bag.  Full of decorations.  And hair.  Because she had spilled it last year and I scooped it off the floor along with a bunch of dog hair and just stuck it back in the bag.

In the end this is what she ended up with.  She picked each category.  I found them.  And she glued them.  Oh, and I got to clean up...again.

Mean Mama