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Swimmy by Leo Lionni is the subject of our K-2 class that begins September 13th at The Tri City Leisure Center is  West Rutland.

Here is Swimmy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nRCrgPGY

One year in VT I had the very bright idea to make an entire school of fish costumes for this little show.  I used that neat looking pattern from a well known pattern house to cut out and begin to sew about ten costumes.
It was the only time i ever thought i would go absolutely out of my mind trying to create costumes.  I finally – and i have never told anybody this – threw the entire lot of them in the trash except for one big black nasty fish I had finished.  Though he was supposed to have been Swimmy, he was now scary enough to me to be the big fish that tried to eat them all.

Eeek!  A costume nightmare.

The costumes have been reconceptualized much more simply.  Red hats and gloves, black hat and gloves.  And one big nasty nightmarish giant fish.