Dancing Dolls with Purple Hair

I promise that my hair is not purple (and that it won’t be anytime soon!). I promise.

Today, the closing of the Dance Me a Story mini camp, has been spectacular. Our happenings centered around Coppelia, our theme of the morning. And these “happenings” of ours were as follows…:

Coppelia Day,  of course, required that each girl bring her favorite doll to class. We began, therefore, by allowing each little princess to share a few lines about her special friend. Afterwards, Ms. Tina read to them the Coppelia story. During this time, Sophie, one of the swans, came and sat on my lap. Turning around, she pointed to my purple shirt. “This is the color” she told me, “that I want my hair to be when I’m a grown-up.” Haha, we’ll see about that, Cutie…

We split up into our three groups, Ms. Tina taking the swans to dance and Ms. Jennifer and I taking the fairies and dolls to the craft room. While the dolls decorated their white pillow cases of late, the fairies completed today’s craft project: crepe-paper streamers (The title is pretty self explanitory.)!

All three groups then met in the lobby. We passed out some “special snacks” from Gabriella’s mom and sat the girls down in front of the Coppelia DVD.

Group swap! It was the swans turn to create their rainbow-colored streamers. Once completed, Ms. Jennifer and I dressed the girls in grey tutus and hurried them down to the Training Center (a.k.a. Studio C). There, we practiced their dance (Ms. Jennifer’s version of the cygnet variation from Swan Lake), along with the fairies’ (Ms. Jennifer’s version of the garland dance from The Sleeping Beauty) and the dolls’ (the Little Red Riding Hood variation from Sleeping Beauty).

Ah– the parental units! It was quite a show, indeed. The girls were simply beautiful, each and every one of them.

Once the performance was over, I gave lots of hugs, took lots of pictures and rushed back to the main studio. After taking care of the trash, it was back home with me!