Animal Shelter

Madeleine has decided that she wants to open her very own Animal Shelter.  She plans to raise money in order to buy a building.

MADELEINE: Wait, Mommy, what's more expensive?  A building, or a HOUSE?
ME: A building.
MADELEINE: Okay.  Well, maybe if we can't raise enough for a building, we can just buy a house for the animals.

Her method of raising this money is simple: she wants to have a bake sale.  Not a lemonade stand, because that never really raises much money, but a bake sale is sure to do the trick.  Let me tell you: if she is able to raise enough money to BUY A BUILDING from holding a bake sale, she will be the most successful fund-raiser on the face of the earth.

In the meantime, however, Madeleine is constructing her shelter out of a cardboard box.  Because, same diff, right?

Madeleine asked me to help decorate her shelter, "with lots of BRIGHT COLORS, because we need to attract the animals!"  She has been very resourceful with recycled materials, even finding styrofoam on which to make an OPEN/CLOSED sign.

The plastic bags full of air are the dragon.  I'm not really sure what the dragon has to do with the animal shelter, but I do know that I was given the option between being a princess or dragon.  I chose princess, and had to battle it out something FIERCE against those puffy plastic bags in order to even get close to the animal shelter.  So maybe it's a sort of guard dragon??

I can see that this idea of Madeleine's is BOUND to be a success!