It has been awhile since I finished up this topic. For those of you that need to catch up, I am at the point of how to make a golf ball roll on cardboard without seeming like a golf ball rolling on cardboard.

I did not want to change the materials to plywood panels as I did NOT want kids with power tools in my class. I trust them, but not much. I don’t even like power tools when I work with them as I get freaked out by saws and blades.

In fact plywood would not help solve the problem. We basically need grass or material that acts like grass, a buffer and a friction maker that a ball can roll on. That is when luck arrived on my side for once.

In Two Rivers, a department store was closing down. Evan’s department Store had everything. They even had a crafts department that I would use for years . I think half of my paper route money went toward crafts or items I had purchased at Evan’s. Now the Evanoff family was closing down their store.

Everything had to go. I assumed that there must be piles of felt squares in the craft section. Even a roll of felt would work, as long as it was green. As I walked over to the crafts section, everything was picked over! There were no felt squares or rolls of any material worthy to make our golf course. As I walked dejectedly out of Crafts, my mind raced to another type of carpeting. Maybe the local carpet dealer might have some extra remnants of green piled carpet squares? Maybe they might have some plastic shag “grass mats ? Hmmmm…that is similar to the stuff that you use to make model train sets…Trains!!!!!! To the toy section! I felt like I was in the swirl when Batman would tell Robin, “To the BatCave!”

I quickly ran downstairs to the toy department and moved through a few aisles to the train department. There were fake trees and mountains and things I could use after I found what I really wanted. And here it was! Rolls of green model train grass. Eureka! I found it! I bought a few rolls of it at 1/3 off. I then went back the following week to clean out the store’s supply of train grass when the sale went to 50% off.

Now I am in business!

To be continued…..

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