Ridiculous!

This week while taking back my Kindergartens I stuck with a tried and true paper weaving lesson. Besides all the Art objectives I try to stuff the lesson suitcase with as many cross-curricular connections as possible. If we're going to make the trip we should be prepared when we arrive.
The first steps though can be a little dry-fold the paper, draw the lines, number pattern so enter the RIDICULOUS!
Every time I called a color table up to they had to quietly, stealth-fully, sneakily move like a spy from their stool to the paper strip box and back. After a couple rounds of successful spy practice runs, their mission if they decided to accept it, was to gather the rest of the strips they needed to finish their weaving complete with Mission Impossible music courtesy of me. It was ridiculous, had nothing to to with lesson content but we all had a ball!
Was it ground breaking, changing with the times, utilizing technology, or even moving towards choice based lessons (any of those goals I set for myself) ? Sadly, no. However, it has rejuvenated my enthusiasm, demonstrated to the students that the loss of their student teacher is not all sad, showed my student teacher that it is okay to relax and have fun with her lessons...so, Viva La Ridiculous!