Gum, it's the new duct tape.

On Monday, my daughter came home from school and wanted to make a bracelet. My husband had picked the kids up from school mainly because he was off this week for Thanksgiving and I was down with Strep. His district gets the whole week of Thanksgiving off, while my district (which is the one the kids attend) only gets Wednesday-Friday off.

Jdhteach cut a strip of paper for Caroline to use as her "bracelet" and left her to the decorating. Caroline came back the bedroom where I was and asked for glue. Not sure if we had any, I got up to look and quickly discovered that no, in fact, we did not have glue.

Undeterred, she looked through several drawers that I'd already searched through. I had gone into the utility room to empty the dryer, when I heard her say, "Hmm, this will do." When I returned to the kitchen, I found her chewing some Big Red gum. I asked her what she was doing and she simply replied, "Watch." She then took out the chewed gum and tore it in half. One half she placed on the bracelet and stuck an item to it. She repeated the process with the other half.

Sure enough, about 30 minutes later she emerged from the kitchen with her bracelet.

McGyver would be proud.