We finally met Gerva Groovie today! We've heard many of our friends rave about Gerva Groovie whom our neighborhood Kroger grocery store host once a week to put on a program for kids. Gerva is a cute little lady in a wild costume. Each week she has a different theme to her program. This week was the Wild West. She had cups of various ingredients like raisins, pretzels, sunflower seeds, etc and the children could make their own trail mix. Nicholas also loved drinking the "cactus juice" which was really a float made with lime sherbet and 7up. There were empty milk jugs painted like cows that the children could rope.
We even got to make our own "horse on a stick" riding toy. We starte with large envelopes that had bubble wrap on the inside. We cut out the horse shape from a template. Then Nicholas cut the yarn to make the horse's mane.
Next we glued on the yarn and then attached the two sides of the horse head to a dowel.
Here is cowboy Nicholas riding on his horse. Yee-haw!
Gerva Groovie also had a table set up to make your own "brand" (really just a foam stamp) and also an area to paint a desert cactus scene. However, Nicholas was having too much playing with his horse and his friends to do any more crafts for the day.
Here is a picture of Gerva Groovie, with Emma Rae who is trying to lasso her horse, and Nicholas who is playing with a milk jug cow!
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