highlights

this past weekend we cast lots of votes for some really cool art.check just a few of the art prize entries we saw...
this card was such a fun idea -it's the world's largest greeting card, that we all could sign.

a quick pose in front of the starburst -
in between classes i watched the artist put this together,
so it was fun to show the finished project to the kids.

"lights, camera, action??" man -
we saw him this summer in mackinaw city,
he's pretty cool to watch.

the kids loved the "play me, i'm yours" pianos.

the elephants were lots of fun -
pulling their ears made their heads move up & down.

the ufo pod was just plain odd,
but the kids thought it was way cool!

the guy who made these flowers took our picture

in exchange for our vote - ha ha!

olivia's FAVORITE -
87,000 toothpicks!

the steam pig -
how does one explain this???

and that is just the teeny, tiny tip of the art prize iceberg.

don't worry, more pictures coming soon!

once the top 10 are announced and we definitely will go back and scope them out.

there are already so many cool ones that we've heard about

in the past few days that we didn't see.

ugh.

it's kind of like disney world - you just can't see it all in one day.

multiple visits required!!!

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and now for my favorite moment of art prize -

the kids were standing around a building spotlight

and saying how cool it was.

they totally thought it was art!

they cracked me up

{and the guy who walked past them too!}