100th Day of School

We recently celebrated H's 100th day of school. His teacher makes a pretty big deal out of it, which was exciting for the kids. They had different activities planned, like counting 100 snack items (Goldfish, Craisins, Chex, pretzels), stringing 100 Fruit Loops on a necklace, sorting colored beads in groups of 10, etc. The homework assignment was to wear 100 items of your choice.

Thankfully we were given said assignment several weeks ago, and I had plenty of time to go on Pinterest and save several over-the-top cute pins of shirts that others had made with their kids. I was so excited to show my son my ideas but my excitement quickly faded... "...No, too girly. Too many stars (umm, aren't there supposed to be 100?). I don't like the gumballs. I need something ninja." He then took my phone and started scrolling through pins at lightning speed until he announced, "That's it! That's my shirt! Can you make that, Mom?"

He had found a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle made out of craft pom poms. I am over all things turtles, but he is not. But he was very clear on his vision, "But Mom, it needs to be Mikey, not Raph!"

I spent Sunday afternoon hot gluing pom poms to a cheap dry-fit style shirt I picked up at Wal-Mart for $3 on clearance. I was able to find the colors of pom poms I needed at Michael's after first checking JoAnn Fabrics. JoAnn's only had giant 1000-count multi-color bags that I would never use again so I was glad I didn't settle for those.

Some other cute ideas I saw at school that day--a girl had a baby blanket-turned-cape with 100 glow in the dark stars, a couple of kids had hats on with 100 gems or jewels, another girl had a tee with 100 little plastic peace signs glued to it, one had stuck foam flowers to hers, and one simply had a shirt with 100 tally marks on it. That mom is clearly wiser than I!

Our preschool had a bulletin board I designed (thank you, Pinterest!) that said, "This is what 100 looks like!" and we had each child bring in a bag with anything they wanted as long as the items totaled 100. We had pasta, Shopkins, books, stickers, coins, crayons, chocolate chips, popcorn, coffee beans, cotton balls, pencils and more. It turned out great.

So here it is, the "100 Ninja" shirt. Ideally, it would've said 100 DAY Ninja, but I had to have an even 100 on it! Not the easiest task. Was it memorable? It sure was.

100 Ninja shirt

Maybe next year I'll try to convince him to wear 100 Lego pieces on his pants. :)