Cardboard Box Parade

It is costume week here this week. Today was the Cardboard Box Parade. It is part of the summer reading program through the library. The concept is simple you decorate a cardboard box as your favorite book character, everyone meets at the top of Church Street at 1 o'clock, throw in some drummers to keep the beat, and off you go. They usually make sure to get several summer camps to join as well which makes for a really good amount of kids to march. Chloe and Alexa started working on their costumes last night. Alexa decided she wanted to be Chester from the book Chester by Melanie Watt. Chloe went as Skippyjon Jones from the book Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner. It was hard to narrow down their favorite book characters so they picked some that are really fun for us to read together. They started working on them last night to allow time to dry.

Alexa had some finishing touches to add this morning. Notice her faithful assistant Cabbie is sticking by her side and catching some rays.

Here is how they turned out...
the back view (we wanted to make sure people knew what they were).

Marching along...

The parade ended in City Hall Park where the kids got watch a magician. As you can see they were really enjoying the show.