Fun with packaging

Recently I bought a lightshade.  It was an awesome lightshade and I saved up for a looong time to afford it.  It's from The Glow Company and it's in the shape of a ghost.  Not only that, however, it is also coated in glow in the dark paint so that it absorbs some of the light while it's on and when you turn the light off, it glows green, giving you enough light to find your way to where you were going without stubbing your toe.  I love my lightshade.

My kids, however, were much more fond of the packaging than the lightshade, and it did come with a LOT of packaging:

This box was as deep as it was wide, this was a serious overkill on the packaging front

This stuff is brilliant, it sticks together with water, although they do get very, very sticky if they get too wet.

So, we split the work and I made the legs:

I made five of them.  I'm not sure why, I think I was having a funny five minutes

 My nine year old made a head:

This was approx attempt no. 478.  I'm not sure what kept going wrong, but this was apparently the closest to what she was trying to make

My six year old made a body:

It's fairly evident she was paying attention when they studied bones at school recently

And then we stuck them all together and left it to dry:

Ta da!  One creature of some description.  Not quite sure what it is, but it's a masterpiece nonetheless.