Holiday Hedgehog.

**Macka** · 11-10-2005, 13:01

For those of you who are not aware of it, a fun thing to do is to make a holiday hedgehog.

simply take a large spud and draw a cute hedgehog face on one end. ( a pointy spud at one end is best for this)

Then, count out as many match sticks or wooden toothpicks as there are days to go before your Florida vacation, and stick them in the spud to form a hedgehog!

Carefully remove one every day until there are none left, then you can be sure you are off on holiday that day!

(Sally, you can be excused this, as you only have two days to go. Tha would look silly [

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**pieman790** · 11-10-2005, 13:27

A very original idea. We mark how many weeks on the calendar or use the timer on this forum

**Ruth** · 11-10-2005, 15:17

The kids would love that

Thanks Macka[8D]

11-10-2005, 15:50

Paul you havent taken your pills today have you[msnwink]

Cool idea really though[clap]

**Macka** · 11-10-2005, 15:57

No no pills today.[msnscared]

I have my hedgehog on my desk at the moment. Took ages to do him, as it's 5 months away...

11-10-2005, 16:25

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Macka
No no pills today.[msnscared]

I have my hedgehog on my desk at the moment. Took ages to do him, as it's 5 months away...

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[laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh]

**SunLover** · 11-10-2005, 18:14

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Mach 2
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Macka
No no pills today.[msnscared]

I have my hedgehog on my desk at the moment. Took ages to do him, as it's 5 months away...

[/quote]

[laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh]
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Maybe you should have gone for the porcupine option ? [msnwink]

**Aiminghigh** · 11-10-2005, 18:37

Hmmm.. Great idea, but I forsee a slight problem!
My daughter did a cress-growing version of this at Brownies, where she sliced the top and bottom off the potato, sprinked some cress over the top, made a "potato head" face and happily watched it grow over the course of a few days. By the end of the week, we were all wondering where the terrible smell was coming from. It was, of course, the rotten potato!

I'm just wondering how you'll keep yours going Macka for 5 months[msnwink]

**Macka** · 11-10-2005, 18:46

It's a good point Aiming, (hope you don't mind me using your first name).

Last year they sprouted and my boss made me bin it which was a shame, however I don't see why you couldn't replace your potato periodically.

Chris & Pete, if you use cocktail sticks and angle them backwards, they make a fine porcupines.[^]