The Small Things

Today one of my co-workers brought his new-to-preschool daughter into work with him for a few minutes. Though shy at first, she immediately opened up when I asked her if she went to school today. She smiled widely, then struggled to take off her backpack - which was over half her size. Out of this Disney Princess-emblazoned cavern of creativity and spare pencils came one of my favorite things: a puppet made out of a paper bag. Her puppet was a dog, complete with ears and pink tongue (similar to the Martha Stewart-provided example below).


I realized that I too had a paper bag at my disposal, as well as a medium point Sharpie primed (from a lifetime of solely redacting) for drawing facial features. Add one orange Post-It flag for a tongue, and I had created my very own happiness-factory (otherwise known as a paper bag puppet). It was a good day.