Innovation
Oftentimes when people want to do something wild like recreate a highly convoluted arcade game, that dream is forgotten within a few days, and it doesn't usually return. It seemed as though that would be the case with the clown game, but when Granny Smith arrived late to lunch one day, we soon realized that surrendering was off the table.
Haglet, Herman, and I are the ones who do lots of things together: sleep over at each other's houses, sit together everywhere, etc., and other people within the squad come and go as they please. Because of this, we assumed that Granny Smith was just trying out a new table for the day. That is, until we saw her stumbling into lunch with an odd lump under her shirt.
When she sat down at the table, she promptly pulled out the strange object. That strange object happened to be a tan, bean-shaped item, sewn together and filled with white stuffing. We were all very confused as to what this was, and frankly very horrified by its ugliness, and we demanded an explanation. Granny Smith informed us that this was one of the clowns for the clown game she and Haglet had planned to make. It was obvious that Haglet still craved to make the game, even though it would be a difficult task to achieve, so she dragged us into innovating the appearance of the weird bean-shaped thing.
We decided to name the doll Giuseppe. Herman was the one who decided on the name. Being an avid cartoon lover, she named it after a character from Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, who was just as disgusting as the doll we had made. Giuseppe sounded like a peculiar enough name for a peculiar enough specimen, so it was set.
During recess on Mondays and Wednesdays, the sixth graders are allowed to visit the library instead of the field. Inside of the library, there is a section behind some bookcases called the Maker Space, a section adorned with craft supplies and everything you'd need to construct something, which is where Granny Smith sewed Giuseppe's body. Even before creating Giuseppe, we would opt to go there on the assigned days, but now we had a specific purpose: to innovate our doll.
I'm not very talented with sewing, so I stayed back and watched while Granny Smith started by constructing some clothes for Giuseppe. We only made one outfit, a purple striped V-neck sack that he wore to cover the bottom part of him (he had no arms or legs), all the way to around where the neck should be, like a kind of jumpsuit, if you will.
Then, we created features for him. Herman cut out grey diamonds for the eyeballs, and blue squares for the irises, and stuck the latter on top of the former. The nose was a red circle with a small string hanging down that resembled a nosebleed, and the mouth was red as well, except it looked kind of like an upside-down trapezoid, basically what normal lips look like.
Haglet and Herman worked together to put some hair on Giuseppe's bald head, using purple and white strips of felt. Giuseppe had approximately two hairs of each color, so he basically still looked bald and as ugly as before, and that's how Giuseppe remained.
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