Hehe, doesn’t everyone do school in Hogwarts robes?

Bug came up to me about a week ago, while I was in the middle of something else,  with a little plastic plane in his hand and a sheet of paper… "Mom can you help me make it have that big flat piece so it will fly?"

HUH? "How do you want me to get the paper on… can you draw me a picture?" We have taken to making the boy draw diagrams of what he wants since he has very speficic ideas of how he wants something done (and tends to whine if it isn’t done to his satisfaction).

"Like this Mom."

Ahhh… I could now tell that he didn’t have a wing modification in mind… what he really wanted was a parachute.

"Hmmm…. I don’t think this paper is really going to work for a parachute." Silly, busy mom… I went back to what I was doing. I wish I could say I jump on every one of these projects… but sometimes laundry does need to get folded ya know.

It didn’t matter… he came back a few minutes later holding a plastic bag and a some thread.

"Ok Buddy… let’s see if this works."

Fairy was immediately in on the project too. We’ve made several of these little parachutes now and have tried different objects tied to the end. The little plastic cowboys the kids get as rewards from Tae Kwon Do have been deemed the best. But it was good for them to try the heavier stuff too.

Here is a quick run down if you would like to make one. What you need is a plastic shopping bag (although we have all those reusable bags we still seem to end up with a handful of these in the house), thread, tape and a light weight toy.

Cut the plastic bag into a 20" or so square.

Cut out 4 pieces of thread about 18" long. Using a small piece of tape, attach a thread to each corner.

Pull all the threads together in the center and tie your toy to the end.