Children's Day

Today was yet another holiday at the school. While I used to get angry when we lost our days off because of random school events, now I look forward to them because I love the people in my department and the more ridiculous the event, the more fun we have. This time not only were we in charge of setting up, cleaning up, buying gifts, and entertaining children all day but we were told the day before that we were also supposed to dress like cartoon characters. A great theme if we were back home but exceedingly hard on a moments (and budgets) notice.

Three of my friends and I decided to do a face painting booth and though none of us are artistically inclined, we had a blast drawing rainbows and flowers, dolphins, flags, butterflies, and scary faces on the kids, and the kids loved it! The best part was that we did all of the painting using only colored pencils dipped in water, no messy paint required. I don’t think any of us looked up for 3.5 hours, though I know many kids hit the line over and over to have their arms and hands done as well. We were the last booth to close down and we were exhausted and sweaty from the 90 degree heat, but happy to see all the painted up children running around. 

  

(All of these were drawn using only colored pencils dipped in water)

                         

 (We did WAAAYYY more than rainbows and scars but that seems to be all I took pics of)

 It was a celebration for the kids but I think the teachers had just as much fun.  We spent hours painting everyone in our department until we were all covered in designs and everyone had added something to everyone’s skin. Most of us managed to throw together uber jank costumes and had a blast looking like fools parading around the school.

('Powerpuff girls' and the Dr.)