We Tied Up the Parking Lot

By Kathy In ZANY On May 17, 2015

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Soooo, When my expensive nylon ropes were used, without asking, last week to make a knotted web in the play area, I asked that they be untied (a boring and focus-intensive task) but I also made an opportunity out of it.

In the attitude of Christo, I gave my students industrial-sized spools of yarn and encouraged them to make a web in the parking lot to be broken through by the first car to enter the lot to pick up kids after class.

The parent who arrived early didn’t get to see the sign that we were making. It said, “Please, break through our net.” She parked across the street and came in wondering what was going on. That was probably better, because her kids got to be in the vehicle with their heads sticking out of the sunroof as she slowly drove through the tangle of taught string. When some of the strings gave way it sounded like branches snapping. Way cool!

And then there was cleanup! But the fact is that kids don’t have a problem that their creation doesn’t remain for all time. They do their work for the moment and have some regret that they have to clean it up! You should’a/could’a been there. It’s now a done deed.

Above is my Assistant in Training costuming himself with the string.

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