Comment by zwieback

Great story. Two comments:

- I think the people at our Home Depot would not have been as irritated and would have led the way to the paint department, maybe it's regionally different

- My girls go for spray paint 10 out of 10 times

My daughter had a 4th grade "invention convention" project and she chose to build a anti-kick board for her desk so the boy sitting opposite couldn't kick her. It also had comfy footrests. The boy's side had an Italian and her side had a German flag (the respective nationalities) spray-painted. It ended up looking really nice and the teacher let her keep it on her desk for a few days. That project encouraged her to build some tables for her room.