Adventures in Homeschooling: The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause

Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause

All three boys tried out for the community theatre's Christmas show. A friend of mine wrote the script based on the book by L. Frank Baum. It is an enchanting story about how Santa Claus came to be. Anthony was cast as one of the leads, Ak. Ak is the master woodsman of the world. He finds little Claus in the woods and commands the animals to take care of him. It was a pretty big role and he had lots of lines to memorize.

Michael had three smaller roles. He was Bill Knook, Jack Frost and Bo the Master Mariner of the World. His Jack Frost costume gave me fits. Took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do with it. But for all the work it turned out great.

Jacob had 3 small roles as well. He was a world villager. It wasn't a speaking part but it was my favorite costume to make. He was from Scotland and I made him a kilt! He was also an Awgwa (Larry)....they were the bad guys of the play. He says he like to have the evil roles ;) He was also Kern, Master Gardiner of the World.

This show was full of sickness :( But the kids pushed through even though several of them felt really bad during the last performance. One of the kids was to come on stage and the rest of the kids winged it....don't think anyone really noticed that didn't know what was suppose to happen.

Michael got it the worst at our house. He slept for 4 days!! And didn't leave the house for a week! He really must have had the flu. Jacob had a pretty mild version of the stomach bug. He didn't feel great but only threw up once. Anthony, who hardly ever gets sick came down with a cold too. I was sneezing and had a runny nose but nothing more. Think I got lucky.

Bill Knook