Crazy Hair Day 2014

This being the last school day Thursday before Easter, today was Crazy Hair Day at The Gymnast’s school.

As with every year, our aim was to win. We figure that this is the one “assignment” for school that it is allowed and even *expected* that the parents will do the work (what child can do their own fantastical creation on their own head?), and therefore, we go to town!

This year was my husband’s idea: a rocket, along the lines of the Wallace and Gromit rocket.

I’m not entirely sure that it ended up looking very rocket-like, but it was still an amazing enough creation that The Gymnast was again one of the winners! (I never take this for granted – I always doubt that it’s good enough to win.) Thankfully this time, she didn’t receive yet another chocolate rabbit that she can’t eat. The teacher who was handing them out asked if anyone couldn’t have chocolate, so she was instead given an fluffy pen in the shape of a flamingo. She was extremely pleased with that!

The Husband and I spent several hours the other night creating the wire armature to support the hair. This morning it took me a couple of hours to put it all together. We were rushing a bit, but she did get to school on time. In all, I’d say it was about 4 hours of work (though not all this morning).

We had to go to the local library this afternoon, so it was amusing walking through the shopping centre seeing people’s heads turn, taking a second look, pointing and smiling. My shy, retiring (yeah, right!) daughter lapped it up…

So again, the Stanton family win at another Crazy Hair Day. That’s now six years out of seven. We’re pretty proud of our record!

If you’re new to this whole thing, and you weren’t aware that this is a big deal for our family, you can see our previous entries by clicking on the “Crazy Hair” category in the right hand column. All the previous crazy hair posts will come up in a list, and you can click on them to see the creations themselves.