Creating Candy Island: The first week of W&W Summer Journeys

“You’re awesome!” says Lucy

“No you’re awesome” I reply

“Well you’re awesome-er”

“Okay. How about we’re both equally awesome”

“Okay. Cool.” Lucy laughs as she bounces away

 

Not at every job do you get into a discussion over awesomeness, only to decide that the equally distribution of awesomeness is best.  It is the collective awesomeness at Wonder & Wisdom that has brought me back to the Summer Journey’s program for the past three summers.

I think an introduction is needed, as I will be blogging about the great adventures of the Wiz Kids for the summer-- my name is Erin, a recent college graduate and long time playmate of the Wiz Kids.  I couldn’t imagine spending my last summer, before departing for the adult world, doing anything but playing with theWiz Kids! So, here I am. 

I must apologize for the delay of my first blog post, but my excuse is a good one: float building. Every Fourth of July Wonder & Wisdom Summer Journeys constructs a magnificent float for Greensboro’s Funky Fourth parade. The float is completely kid created; this year’s float was Candy Island adorned with lollypop trees and a monstrous cake mountain. Every child created a costume of their favorite candy, and we “big kids” helped them turn their idea into a reality. Every confection was represented: sour patch kids and candy flowers to gummy bears and chocolate bars. The float was garnished with the inverted M&M’s symbol representing W&W (creative huh!) and the tag line “remember how sweet it was to be a kid”.    Our super sweet float was awarded first place in the parade! A very nice award for our week of hard work.

There are new pictures on the website of our float and its building process and hopefully there will be new pictures added often, so be sure to check frequently.