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	What was your favorite theme for celebrating last year? Tell Dusty!
	"Laissez les bon temps rouler!" (Let the good times roll!) Purple, green and gold whirl over lively jazz and revelers. It's Mardi Gras soon!
	Looking for something to do for Mardi Gras? Here are some quickie ideas: 1) Use what you have to make an absurd, fantastic costume colored purple, green and gold. 2) Make doubloons and necklaces. You can recycle old bits of foil, beads, macaroni, bottle caps and other odds and ends. 3) Improvise a jazz band.  (There's lots of things to use:  inverted pans and pots, scrub brushes rubbed over cheese graters, oatmeal box drums, cardboard tubes for clarinets, cans or unbreakable jars filled with beans for shakers!) 4) Build a float on your wagon or bike. 5) Make Mardi Gras masks and costumes from paper plates, boxes, bits of foil that need to be recycled, crayons and other creative stuff!
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Today's date is in the Gregorian year 2008

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Part of the fun is making up the name of the theme. Your imagination is the only limit. But even more fun is taking what you have and adapting it to the theme. Having trouble coming up with a theme? Here are some that may make your ears waggle!           Around The World Art Attack Backwards Party/Topsy-    Turvy/Upside Down/    Inside Out/Wacky Wednesday Action Heros Beach Birthday Bash Balloons (Bazillions of) Barnyard Friends Bats! Best Buddies (Best       Friends) Bike Parade Bubble (Blast) Bowling Butterflies Carnival Party (Bring Your     Own Booth     Carnival Party) Cat in the Hat Cooks (Let's Get Cooking) Circus Come As You Are Costume (Caper) Cartoon Characters     (Toon Town) Clownin' Around (Clown School) Camper's Celebration    (Camp Out In Backyard) Color (Pick a Color) Crayola Detective Party    (Jr. Detective Party) Dinosaur (Dig This    --  Archeology) Dress Up Tea Party Disco DeeJay Dance Gig Fairies Fairytale Fantasies Flower Power (Festival     of Flowers) May Day Fiesta Frog Party Firefighter Party  50's Sock Hop Fortune Cookie     Fortuneteller Hawaiian Luau Godzilla or the Monster Mash It's A Mystery! Incredible Insects/A Bug's      Life Harvest Party Hello Hollywood ... Jungle Safari Kite Flight Knights in Shining Armor Loco-Motion! (On The      Move) Vehicles, Transportation Krafty Kids House Haunting Knights of the Round Table      and Ladies of the Court Ghost Party Medieval Revelry Mad Hatter (Tea Party) Magic/Abracadabra Karaoke Miss Spider's Tea Party Make-Over  (Make-Up) Party Mulan Music Maker (percussion, etc.) Dinner and Drama    (A Formal Affair) Outer Space Olympics (straightforward,     wacky, goofy) Peter Rabbit Does Brunch Pirate's Plunder/    Buccaneers Ahoy! Playground Pizazz Princess/Cinderella Prehistoric Picnic Parade (What kind?    pets, bike ....) Spooky Rubber Stamping Party Pajama Party Safari Scarecrow Snoop Scoop -  Newspaper     (writing) Science Fiction Fantasy Slime and Other Cool Goo ... Sleep-Overs (varying      kinds) Sand Castle Party Star Wars Planet Earth Science Explorers Screen Test Secret Agent/Spy Tea Party Teddy Bear (Tea Party,      Picnic) Space Invaders Splash -- Splish-Splash     Fourth of July Splash Talent Search Sports and Games Storybook Tigger Time Machine Under the Sea      (mermaids, mermen) Unicorns, Dragons Trash Bash/Recycle Under The Sea Wild West Whale Western Roundup Valentine's and the     Queen of Hearts Yo-Yo Zoo Too! (Lions and    Tigers and Bears,    Oh My!)