Kristie and I have changed directions, somewhat back to what we were doing before. Remember when we tried to grow our own succulents? Well, we failed. So now since we have combined the project with what our Relay for Life team will be selling we have come up with another option. We bought 40-50 succulents that are being delivered next Monday, and are going to be using those as the plants attached to our puns. The pots were bought yesterday and they are super cute. At our booth at Relay, one of us will be sitting at the table with a list of puns, a hole puncher, our self-laminating sheets, and a pen. With this, we will allow the buyers to pick their own pun, which we will then write on a decorated piece of paper, laminate, and attach to their flower pot. Because we have combined our project with our Relay team, we will be giving all the money received from the sales to the American Cancer Society. We also hope to have extra succulents so we can pass more out at school.
Our 20 time project is coming along great! Besides our succulents failing to grow, we have made significant progress on our “punny plants”. I personally have started pressing both flowers and leaves for our project. Kristie and I were debating on whether we should put the pressed flowers in tape, a kind of laminate paper, or if we should mount them on colored paper. We decided that we would make an assortment and if we ended up disliking the way one looked, we would stop making them and stick to the other designs. We also came up with some more puns:
PLANT your ROOTS and keep on GROWING
Be my FROND? PEAS?
You seem like a FUNGI
LEAF your life to the fullest
Give ’em PUMPKIN to talk about
Be PEASful
Where’s your excitMINT?
You can always turn over a new LEAF
I’ve BEAN thinking of you
LETTUCE TURNIP the BEET
So far, Kristie and I have made good progress on our 20 Time: Feed-A-Need project. We have begun pressing some of the flowers we will be attaching to our puns. We will dry out these flowers in order to place them in tape or laminated paper to create bookmarks or cards and attach one of the many puns we have started brainstorming. Some of these puns include:
Find your inner PEAS.
I hope THISTLE cheer you up.
ROMAINE calm and just BEET it.
You’re my all THYME favorite.
I love you from my head TOMATOES.
I’m LAVEN-DER weather we are having today.
You’re PLANTastic.
These are only a few examples of the puns we have brainstormed that we will be passing out alongside the pressed flowers.
We were attempting to grow succulents to pass out later in the year with puns, but unfortunately they did not survive the cold weather we were experiencing.
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