The Igloo Is Growing

Today I took a trip to the Children's Library to see how the igloo is growing. It's about half finished, I guess.
Miss Norma, the Children's Librarian, and I took a closer look at it, because it's had a little problem with leaning inward. It's bound together by clear and white duct tape, and it's waiting for the top and entrance tunnel to be built. So, that means more milk jugs are needed. That's right...milk jugs. It's built out of milk jugs.
We sat on the bright primary-colored couch in front of the igloo and stared at it. It has a long construction sign taped across it exclaiming "Danger" and three chairs are holding the sides up. But it's coming along just fine.
When I asked Norma how she got started with such a project, she said she was researching a theme for her January story times when she came across websites of kids doing igloos in school. It took the classrooms several months of collecting the jugs, and Norma has been collecting a little over a month. The size of the igloo depends on the number of jugs needed, and our library igloo will need about 225 jugs. To date, we have about 190. So, you can see we do need a few more.
Norma said she's been lucky, however, because the local "Y" and some school classrooms have brought milk jugs to her. She also has a request on Facebook for milk jugs and has had some responses.
Norma said she equates each round of jugs to the story of a building. The first three stories of the igloo were actually made by a mother and her daughter, Lily, as they helped one afternoon with the initial construction. There are six, going on seven, stories now.
I asked her what is inside the jugs, thinking there had to be something like a small amount of sand for weight. But she said there's nothing inside. Well, just air. When you look in the igloo, it's really nice to see all the colorful lids; they're primary colors to match the couches in the Children's Library.
Norma said the kids are getting excited about it being finished. She hopes to have it completed by March 1st. That's not too far away.
What's she going to do with all the jugs when the igloo begins to disintegrate? She said she's been thinking about recycling. But she hopes before then to have wonderful discussions with the kids about such topics as construction, measurements, plastic, etc. There's just lots to do with an igloo, you know.
Come check it out the next time you're in the library. Watch our igloo grow.