It’s crunch time with two weeks to go until Prominent Night! Our church is hosting the annual “black tie” affair to honor all 9 of its high school graduates, and the parents are scurrying around town, planning magnificent décor to highlight the achievements of their high school senior with pizzazz!
I’ve been running through all the options: Legos, Chess, Archery, hmmm. I asked Eli about building me something out of Legos, like an arch that stretches from one each of the six-foot table to the other end. He just looked at me. He didn’t even respond.
Trolling Pinterest hasn’t really helped either. The Lego cake and party ideas are either geared towards young tikes or bridegrooms!
I’ve been thinking back to Nate’s table. His was fairly easy since he was into creating botanical artwork and all things bugs. We used a photo backdrop of generic greenery, some very large engineering prints, large ferns, plastic bugs, and patio lights to set off the trophies and Bible Quiz ribbons, an artistic bug collection, his personal artwork, certificates and awards. Oh, and a couple of MSU cowbells, borrowed from a friend. All this and voila! It was done!
It’s become a tradition to also include a theme-appropriate appetizer on each senior’s table. I think we used gummy worms.
Eli wants me to decorate with broken arrows and displaced fletchings (some sliced in half to show just how accurate an archer he is). I am insisting on having his Bible Quiz ribbons and medallions for display. I’ve also got some engineering prints of him for his backdrop.
But how do you make Legos look like they should be taken seriously? I mean, he is taking AP Art with the focus on photography of his original Lego creations. It is serious art!
It’s really too bad that he’s under a lot of pressure right now to finish up school. I could imagine the whole table as a Lego wonderland, explaining his journey from tiny tot to awesome high school senior! I’m positive we have enough loose Legos upstairs to build it! 🙂
