skeleton gingerbread man and glow-in-the-dark glitter...

Last week Caleb's class discussed (and read) a lot about the different types of gingerbread man tales available and how each gingerbread man (or woman) is unique and different. All this in a round about way to teach the kids to appreciate and embrace the differences they find in each other (which I think is fantastic). I don't know if the exact correlation between the two was explained in the classroom - hopefully it was, but just in case it wasn't we took the time at home to be specific.

Caleb brought home his blank gingerbread man (that he cut out very neatly all by himself!) on Thursday with plans to make an army gingerbread man; then it changed to a pirate; next a pirate army guy and ultimately, when he sat down to start working on it it became a skeleton (because this kid loves his Halloween as much or more than his mother does). Naturally a skeleton needs some glow-in-the-dark glitter, so after he drew the face and all the embellishments he felt necessary, we set to glittering everything.





After all the glue dried we locked ourselves in the bathroom trying to capture some light graffiti style pictures of the ginger-skelly dancing in the dark. Unfortunately the glow was not bright enough for me to catch it with the settings on my camera. To make sure I was using acceptable settings I played around with an LED pen light:



Fun stuff. I can see why people play around with light graffiti. I'm still going to try to figure out what settings I would need to get that glitter to work in the same way. Game on, glitter!