Penny Cooper wants everyone to know:
"Don't be upset, it's ONLY PRETEND."
Also, it could never happen because, as you can see from her Red Cross pin, she is an Intermediate Swimmer!
And will be going for her Lifesaving badge too.
So, here is their first rendition of "The Raft of the Medusa". (Original follows.)
The most coveted role was the one with the falling down socks. My favorite touch is the birdbath (a ceramic pie tin) for the ocean.
BELOW: "The Raft of the Medusa", by Théodore Géricault (1818, France)-- more info at The Louvre. (It's quite big--the people are near lifesize.)
I'm not sure we'll do another version. Our raft is too small, and I think this rendition is actually pretty great. (Though the grass bugs me—I should have put down a blanket.)
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Making a raft was the first project of their summer Doll Camp 2025, way back in early June--but I wasn't blogging so I never posted it!
(Penny Cooper says the blog is important:
"It's where you show what we do".
That's true enough.)
They assembled the raft...
...but the final steps were human-sized. I tied off the sticks (at some event I attended at the lake but wasn't interested in):
