Students admire the aliens on display.
The children at Salmonberry Garden created space aliens last month from recycled materials. They used milk cartons, yogurt containers, spice bottles, salt containers, berry boxes, dental floss containers and wires from old calendars. They held these things together with masking tape and old playdough. Then they covered them with metallic paint and added beads for decoration. Each child told a story about what their alien will do to help people on Earth when they come to visit our planet. These delightful aliens have been on display at the Orcas Library for the month of February. The class paid them a visit and then shared story time with Nita Couchman, the Children’s Librarian. At the end of the month the aliens will make their way back to Salmonberry School and then on home with their respective children
Here are the stories of how these friendly space aliens will help beings on Planet Earth:
“My Alien will help people and animals. She will build houses for the people and bring more food for the animals.”
“My Alien is named Fuzzball and she is 109 years old. She brings some of the extinct animals back and tells the people who are killing animals to “Stop killing animals!”
She brings money to the poor people so they don’t starve to death. She makes seed pods grow, but not in the winter. She stops the war – she gives the confused people love in their hearts so they don’t want to fight anymore.”
“My Alien can create more jet packs out of his own. He gives the jet packs away to people so they can enjoy flying, too. The jet pack doesn’t use oil so it won’t pollute
the Earth.”
“My Alien will bring more penguins to the Earth. He also brings more ice and snow for the penguins to live on.”
“My Alien brings food for the horses because they need food to be healthy.”
"I'll see you in a few weeks, buddy!"
“My Alien lives on the sun. She brings sunflower seeds to the Earth because there aren’t enough sunflowers on Earth.”
“My Alien brings horses to people who want horses and don’t have any.”
“My Alien helps animals. She teaches people how to take good care of their pets.”
One student chose to create a planet instead…
“My planet is called Imaginative. It is beyond Pluto, and it is a Gas Giant. The ring is the gas circling the planet.
All the different colors swirling around on the right side are gas. The splotches on it are stars. The shooting of yellow is a comet. The last thing on the picture is a space ship. All of the darker splotches on Imaginative are gas circling it, but the rings are the gas most far out. There are no people on Imaginative because there is too much gas. And there are no Martians, because it is even too gassy for them. The brown splotches, by the gas swirling out, are a little solar wind.”
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