Kolby's Pigeon

Kolby had a homework project where he was supposed to do a book report and then get a pumpkin and decorate it like the main character in the book (but he wasn’t allowed to carve the pumpkin because it would go bad).  So he decided to use the book, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy and make the pigeon.  We got a gourd instead of a pumpkin (close enough) and we happened to have some cans of paint sitting out in the garage from down in the basement from the previous homeowners that we are going to try to recycle, so we went out and found the light blue color that our dining room used to be painted and he used that for the pigeon’s body.  He painted the whole thing blue, then made legs and feet out of yarn while we were waiting for the paint to dry, then he used the blow dryer to try to get the paint to dry faster, then I used the blow dryer to carefully dry the remaining wet spots in the paint since the paint had started to curl up and peel off in a few spots from the heat of the blow dryer.  Then he painted the white stripe around the pigeon’s neck and the eyes, then we blow dried while he cut out the wings and painted them too, then he used a magic marker to color the eyes and outline things, and we heated up the glue gun to attach the wings and legs, then did the clean up.  I think Kolby and I were making that pigeon for 2 or 3 hours, with all the waiting for paint to dry.  But it turned out cute, and he did just about everything by himself, other than the hot glue gun and some of the blow drying.