You are stuck. You have to make a float for the upcoming parade
and no one will let you use their flatbed truck. What can you
do?
Not having a truck could work in your favor. If everyone else
has a truck and you do something creative and ingenious and plucky,
the spectators will be impressed. If it is funny too, so much
the better.
Consider that you have some distance to travel on a street; how
do you transport yourselves? Typically this is done by feet, wheels
or skids as in a sleigh or sled. If you choose feet, you could
make your float in modules which loosely interconnect. Then you
could choreograph your moves down the street, twirling and swaying,
etc. You could dribble along the way and if your float has a hoop
on it toss basketballs through the hoop and have them roll down
a swimming pool slide (made out of wire) into someone`s hands.
You`ve seen Chinese dragons running around. You could vary that
with a theme that fits the parade. If you have a sports team mascot,
you could have each member of the float dress up as the mascot
and figure out some interesting interactions.
If you, the float participants, are skaters you could all dream
up some activity on skates. You probably all know mothers who
have strollers. You could each push a stroller and have a light
framework connecting them all to support a float.
Find someone who will drive their Volkswagen or square box Scion
or some other small cute car and use it to support your float.
Get several lawnmowers and have adults drive them down the street
with your float on top. (That's not really a good idea, but it
might give you a jump start on coming up with your own clever
notion.)
Get a bunch of two-wheeled hand carts and take turns wheeling
each other down the road. Wheelbarrows would do, but that is harder
and probably a bit risky.
Anyway, think about anything that has wheels and you can rig
up a real float. Soap box derby car, a hundred HotWheels cars,
a bunch of basketballs held together in some sort of bearing race.
Or, get a horse.
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