Students, start your engines! Southern Ute Head Start students, with help from their families constructed boxcars from cardboard boxes, decorated with various colored papers, stickers, and other materials, during “Family Night” in the head start gym Wednesday, March 25. The completed cars were then raced around the gym. All racers received a matchbox type car. A meal of pizza and salad was served prior to the construction and racing of the boxcars.
The pit crews, made up of family members got creative in their construction and design of their students boxcars.
An elder assists with the crucial attachment of glitter and stickers to her students boxcar.
Amanda Herrera and her daughter, Aubri "Peanut" work on their boxcar attaching paper plates for wheels to their number 5 pink car.
A smiling girl, with her boxcar all decorated, gets ready to race.
Head Start students, with help from their families constructed boxcars from cardboard boxes, decorated with various colored papers, stickers, and other materials, during “Family Night” in the head start gym.
Photo Credit: Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum
Photo Credit: Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum
Photo Credit: Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum
Photo Credit: Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum
Photo Credit: Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum
