Geth

I actually consider myself lucky that I've been a mom for 10 years and have never had to do a paper maiche project. That luck ran out last week. Okay, it really wasn't so bad and being the mean mom that I am, I made Gavin do most of the work. It was his school project and he actually had fun with it (I was elbow deep in canning tomatoes and probably would have had more fun doing paper maiche!).
Gavin needed to create a display of a character from his favorite book. Of course, what else would he choose but Leven Thumps. One of his favorite characters from this book is Geth. Gavin talked and I typed about Geth - please forgive the grammar and thought wanderings.

Hi, my name is Geth and I’m a character from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. In this book, Leven has to get to Foo so he can destroy the Gateway so Sabine cannot get out. Leven is an offing, who is a person who came into Foo at one time and can see the future and manipulate it. Sabine is a nit who can freeze things and thaw them by his touch. He is one of the evil characters in the book. Winter is a nit, like Sabine. Leven and Winter travel to Germany to the Gateway. Clover, who is a scycophant, helps Winter and Leven through the trials in the book.
I was originally a person. Then Sabine cursed me and turned me into a fantrum seed. I grew into a large tree in Leven’s yard. I am also the last Lithum of The Order of Wonder. Leven’s Dad chopped me down and took to a lumber yard. Then I was made into a toothpick. I was sold to Tina’s diner. It was luck that the man sitting next to Leven picked me out of a jar and used me. When he bit me, it formed an eye. That was when I first saw Leven. Winter stepped on me and that is how Leven found me. I made another eye, a nose, two ears, two arms and two legs for myself.
While Leven was sleeping, Sabine’s shadows were making bizarre dreams in his head telling him he was worthless and couldn’t do anything. Winter came to Leven’s house, put me down on my old stump and I picked up the house with my roots. Winter then froze it and then I dropped it. The house shattered into a dizillion pieces. Then we traveled around trying to get to Germany and to the Gateway to Foo. Leven wanted to go home again, so Clover had to bite him. Scycophants have a vemon which cause people to see good pictures of scycophants. While Leven is sleeping, Winter freezes him in the train and we ride all the way to Maine. While in Maine, we stole a convertible and drove across the water, which Winter has froze, and we drove almost all the way to France, where we ran out of gas. A fishing boat picked us up and took us to France. We caught a ride from a taxi to Germany. I rode in Winter’s pocket this whole time and been encouraging them to keep going and, saying, “Time is of the essence”.

So, Gavin being Gavin, we couldn't just carefully cut arms and legs from an actual toothpick. We had to made him gimourous, out of paper maiche. It really wasn't too bad and Gavin really liked the finished project. He wanted him a lot taller so me could have legs too, but I drew the line at a six-foot toothpick. He had fun making it and I can guarantee it was the only over-sized, paper maiche toothpick in his class!