Earth Day Fiasco...

Yesterday (April 22) was Earth Day.  I didn't have a lot planned so we spent the day riding our bikes -- okay, Kira rode and I walked/jogged behind.  We also did a few fun crafts.  The first one is a coffee filter globe.  For some reason as a child I found it fascinating that  you could draw with marker, drip water on it and it would change.  I know, I am strange.  Anyway, we took our coffee filters and decorated them as the world.  They looked really cool.  Unfortunately while drying outside, Kira's blew away.  So we will make a new one today.

But wait, there's more!  Gracie, our cat had to come observe what we were doing in the kitchen and this is what she saw....

We had a few bumps along the way since this was a new project for both of us.  I don't remember ever doing paper mache in school or with my Mom.  I used a flour/water ratio I found online and I thought our world was starting to look pretty darn good!  

Instead of painting it, we decided to use tissue paper.  On another site it showed a paper mache project covered in tissue paper and it looked beautiful.  So...we tried it.  Now to make putting the ocean and the land on a little easier, I drew out the continents. They are not drawn to scale and as Kira so kindly pointed out Hawaii is missing and Antarctica is too small.  

But I woke up this morning and found this...

Sorry about the blurriness but as you can plainly see, it still looks white and well the bottom decided to cave in.  I think we can mark this as a FAIL, but we [took] chances, [made] mistakes and [got] messy.  Quote adapted from Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus!