Wood Slice Pumpkins

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We were cleaning and burning up some brush the other day to get the yard ready for fall. When Dad was cutting the wood up I said to cut me some slices of a branch to make pumpkins.  Super simple, paint the slice orange leaving a little margin on the edge, then glue a stick and some Spanish moss on the top with hot glue.  Done! I used a semi gloss paint from Walmart that was about $1.50. I made seven and used about half the bottle of paint making them about 10 cents apiece.   The moss I had saved from some dried arrangement so no cost there.  If I hadn't had the moss I would have used dried grass or a bit of green fabric for an embellishment.      

When the pumpkins were all lined up it made me think of the book I read to the kids at least a hundred times when they are little to teach ordinal numbers, "Five Little Pumpkins Sitting On a Gate."  Click  here to hear the song if you aren't familiar with it or just want to walk down memory lane.

How To Turn A Gummy Bear Inside Out

 

Stick the bear on the end of a chop stick.

 

 

Slowly, push him down until he turns inside out. 

 

This post also could have been called "Things You Can Do When You Are Suppose To Be Doing Your Math."  

My Big Fat Greek Math Book

One of our favorite movies as of late has been "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."  We have probably seen it about eight times and it just gets funnier every time we watch it. 

 My favorite character is the father of the bride, Gus, played by Michael Constantine, who delivers everyone one of his lines perfectly.  Some of his famous lines are about him taking any word and telling how it is from a Greek origin. 

So we are reading along in Dancer's math book and come to these few lines which I read just as Gus would have said them.  "The word polygon is formed from the Greek roots poly, which means, "more than one" or "many," and gonon, which means "angle."  Thus polygon literally means "more than one angle."  We were just rolling.  After a few moments we compose ourselves and move on. 

Another of Gus' great wisdom is that there are two kinds of people in the world, Greeks and those who wish they were Greeks.  A little further on on the page there are two diagrams much like the ones below.

So we decided, again while laughing, that polygons are Greek and all other shapes wish they were Greek.  I highly doubt that Dancer will ever forget what a polygon is.