Yet Another School Project

In Cole's fourth grade class they have been studying the state of Utah. So this week he is supposed to bring a covered wagon to school. His instructions were to be creative and use whatever materials he wanted. So after brainstorming he decided to make his out of candy.
After spending too much time in the candy aisle Cole decided that pixie sticks would make the perfect base. Here he is constructing the wagon. We taped several together and then joined them at the corners.
We used some floral wire and made the frame for the "covered" part of our wagon. Then Cole pressed on the fruit roll-up for the cover -- such a beautiful shade of strawberry :)

Next came the wheels. We pushed wire through the spaces between the pixie sticks and added our Oreo wheels. Because the wire goes straight through to the other side connecting a pair of wheels and making an axle the wheels actually turn!

And here is the finished project. Wagons ho! You probably can't see it but there are two very cute cinnimon bears riding shot gun on this wagon. Cole did a great job!

P.S. A few hours later Cole played his first baseball game this season. He made several great plays (he played first base) He even ran into the fence going for a foul ball -- I wish the highlights were on ESPN.