The principal decided that she would like to have elephant paw prints on the walkway up to the school. This is the drop-off/pick-up area and the point was for the kiddos to follow the paws and stay away from the road. The first attempt was with vinyl stickers made for concrete...hmmm.. let's see those didn't even make it through open house night before they started to peel up. SO my friend Jennifer and I decided that we would just paint them on. We had it in our heads that we could just use a stencil and a small roller.....and the entire project should only take 4 hours-ish. And it did only take 4 hours-ish times 3!!! We worked for about 5 hours on a Sat morning and then it got too hot ( this was back in August people!) and then took the afternoon off and headed back up to the school around 6pm and finished around mid-night! Once it started to get dark, it was hard to see our lines, even with the headlights from our vehicles facing the sidewalk. The next day I went over to the school with fingers crossed that our paws didn't look wonky....and to my relief...they looked AWESOME!!!! Jennifer and I joke that we did this for everyone else's kids, since all our kids are bus riders!!!!Crazy as it was, it was a lot of fun and I was happy to do it!!
