Market Day Kaukapakapa Style

Kaukapakapa School had a market day last week. The kids had been talking about it for weeks and I honestly couldn't understand what was going to happen. I thought it would be a quiet country school childrens lunchtime sale. When I arrived It was so far from this assumption.

Complete and utter organized Chaos. I arrived fashionably late, by about 10 minutes, and alot of really good items had been snatched up. I was amazed at what was there and how quickly things were going. The stalls were set up in the classrooms so there was a bottle neck squeeze through the door then a stroll around the stalls.

Kawea's store was a hair styling and coloring store. Hik paid $1.oo to have his hair spiked up and 'styled'.

The 'shop'. It was the busiest one.

Here are some of the end results from that store.

Nauvoo had made friendship bracelets.

Hikawera's class had made Necklaces (well his group) and he had already arranged to buy his own for $2.50 on the day!! (80% of the class had sold tickets on them before market day began!!)

A fun day for the kids.

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