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What does a very, very long bulletin board in the children's section of the library need?

A very, very long list of characters to fill it from one end to the other.

I started in the centre, cutting my characters from discarded book pages. 

A knight on horseback.  

A fearsome fire-breathing dragon. 

A bridge to nowhere.

Then I added to the left and right, left and right until the space was spanned.

A towering, flag festooned fortress.

A wizard and his wise owl. 

A leaping wolf and prancing unicorn. 

Puss’n boots. 

Mary Poppins and Alladin’s carpet on a collision course with a crescent moon. 

A prince and princess.

These all became a back story to the action up front.

Black silhouettes of a cottage, dimly lit. 

A maiden between a mushroom and a gnome. 

Peter Pan and Wendy aloft. 

The tortoise and the hare. 

A swan watching a mermaid dive and fish leap. 

A dancing frog and fairies three.

 A reader (of course). 

A trio of children. 

A maiden in a tower. 

A mysterious mouse, and birds of every kind flying high and low and left and right and up and down.

(The blue background paper had been around the block a few times and there were signs galore of tape doing what tape does best. The placement of more than a few characters helped to hide the past life of what was now, blue sky) 

Re-use, Re-think, Re-tape.