Rabbit Recycling

A few Years ago I was given this paper craft project. The idea was that you pay like $14 for a couple of sheets of thick paper with lines and directions, you cut, you glue, and voila! you have a moving paper sculpture. Fun!

So a few weeks ago while "cleaning" my living room I came upon this stack of papers in a pile (please see organizational strategies PILES, by Carrots). So I immediately sat down and began cutting and pasting. At one part in the directions you have to glue a nickel to a piece of paper as a weight, so when you turn the crank on the side the individual monkeys hands will cover their eyes, month or ears. Cute!

I made each individual and then connected them so they would move in unison, it was amazing! I had crafted a whole group of monkeys that would perform on demand. So I proudly placed it among some house plants to display, I thought it gave a nice, natural feeling to the monkeys. Like they were performing in their home town, the jungle. Then the other day I came home and found my troupe of monkeys face down on the floor...

I knew what this meant, FRANK! was at it again.

Sidebar: Two years ago, perhaps the same X-mas I got the monkey craft, I gave an adorable mini lop bunny to my husband, who was fond of them as he had one in his childhood that had mysteriously disappeared, like so many other childhood pets. I too had owned a few dwarf rabbits as a child Stewart and Sylvia, I am not sure which one it was but I remember waking up one morning at my Grandmothers house and finding a big hole in the side of the bunnies outdoor cage, and my parents explaining that the rabbit rather then the neighbors German Shepard had made the hole. I digress But there is a point, because of our mutual childhood traumas involving rabbits we decided that we should house our bunny, indoors. after a few nights of bunny bunny dig dig we decided that Frank the bunny would be happier hopping around the house and so we set him free, he obediently use the litter box and so it was decided that he would be a free range rabbit, safe, in the house. Soon after he was set free he began to eat paper or anything else within reach of his teeth. Including the trim in our house and a few power cords. Back to the other day...

Frank was up to his old tricks, he had munched all of the hands off the monkeys and part of the Speak No Evil Monkeys stand. As I look at it now He has also given See No Evil a full lobotomy. So He has turned a lovely troupe of monkeys into a deranged handless freak show!

But now the paper can go back to it's natural habitat, the recycling bin

FUN!

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