Duct Tape

The latest craze sweeping the 9-year-old female gender (at least the one in my house) is duct tape.  Yes, the girl who will rant, rave, and/or feign illness to avoid a trip to Home Depot is now asking on a regular basis if we can go to Home Depot.  I can't remember when it started.  I think it was after one of her friend's birthday party, but then she sat in her room with scissors, card board boxes, and a roll of duct tape creating.  The first creation was a storage box for her craft supplies.  A simple brown cardboard box was transformed into the much more artistic purple and leopard print pattern.  I did not know their was duct tape in a leopard print, but it was Delaney's first media to work with when the duct tape craze began.

She has also created a hair clip with multi-colored ribbons of duct tape which she has worn to school and been complimented (genuinely) about what a pretty hair ribbon she has.  my fear is that the tape will stick in her hair and end of ripping strands or handfuls out, but so far, she has made sure all the sticky part is covered and no problems to report yet.

So, this past weekend, Dana had a meeting all day Saturday, and I was with the kids.  After the requests all week, I asked Delaney if she wanted to go to Home Depot and she gladly jumped at the chance.  Before i knew it she had a coat on, shoes on, and was waiting for me, instead of the normal routine where I asked her three or four times to get her shoes on.  The total cost for one roll of red duct tape was $6.97 at Home Depot.  The only disappointment was all they had were solid colors like red, blue, yellow, and no patterns or leopard print.  I could only imagine a general contractor taking out his roll of leopard print duct tape one day.  He would be laughed at by all the other contractors.  Anyway, Delaney spent almost all of Saturday creating.  The latest creations are a cross with fashion, and now she is sporting the duct tape belt and the duct tape backpack.

Either way, I have not got my money's worth from any purchase as much as I did for the $6.97 I spent there in quite a while.