100 Pieces of Gum!

February 3rd is our schools 100th day of the school year. Claire's first grade class is celebrating by making posters with 100 objects on them! Claire decided she wanted to do 100 pieces of gum. That was fine until she decided she wanted to spell out her name with the gum! We were a little confused about how to do this with gum sticks. I suggested we use something else ( beans, noodles??) but she was very excited to use the gum. We ended up chewing the gum to make her poster! Gross I know, but she got to spell her name and use the gum! We started chewing with just Claire, me, and Carma and our jaws quickly got sore. Harrison just happened to be going to piano lessons at the McGary's so I loaded him up with gum sticks and a tupperware in his piano bag. Thankfully,all the McGary kids were not totally grossed out by this and dutifully chewed and collected for us! We would like to add a very special thank you to Chase McGary for adding some of his own gum collection so that we would have more colors than pink and purple. Notice we only got to the Y in Holyoak with 100 pieces which is why the O, A, & K are written in. This might go down in history as the most disgusting school project ever. I am sure Claire will have the only poster with "ABC" gum on it even though I am sure it is some sort of health code violation to even take it in to the school!