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How to Build a Pioneer Day Parade Float

 How to Build a Pioneer Day Parade Float My husband, Mike, and I were assigned to make a Pioneer Day Parade float for our church stake for the days of 47 parade last summer.  This is a fun celebration in Utah to commemorate the arrival of the pioneers into the Utah valley.  We were assigned in April.  Our leadership let us know that there were parade float classes held locally in January and February, so we had missed them...haha, it was just us figuring everything out.  Here's what we did and what we learned...and things we would do differently if we had to do it again.  We were told the parade theme: "Lesson learned on the Pioneer Trail".  We had to pick a theme for our float that went along with the overall theme. What kind of lessons did the pioneers learn along the trail?  My hubby and I debated this back and forth a bit...and we didn't want to have a morbid theme...but we remembered how so many pioneer stories talk about singing while ...