So Elijah had his last project of the school year....edible book project. You have to make something that makes you think of the setting of the book!
I was jazzed, so I decided that Elijah was going to read the book
How to Eat Fried Worms and we were going to make
Dirt with gummy worms hanging out for the class. Then I thought - oh no that would be way too easy....someone else in the class might think of that idea, so I wanted something else. (
Moment of honesty: Please remember this is ELIJAH'S project - not mine.......but I kinda got excited and took over).....
ooooyee I've become one of
those parents:(
So he read Rocky Road Trip (it was all about rocks and the Grand Canyon). So I decided that we were going to make rock candy for the entire class. GO LOVE!! No one is going to think of that idea!
So here we go and we made a family project out of it:
counting out the sticks for his class....getting ready to soak them to coat them with sugar.
pouring in sugar -- 8 cups to be exact!
All for NOT - a week later we had 4 mason jars with 12 sticks in them and NO crystals have formed. It was only supposed to take 24 hours to start forming crystals. What did I do wrong???
Well, just so you don't make the same mistake I did - and waste 8 cups of sugar and a lot of time: crystals won't form when you live in a place with 70% humidity during the summer time. I'm just sayin'!
We ended up mixing soft vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips, placing it into plastic dixie cups and having his class excavate the 'rocks' AKA chocolate chips out of the 'dirt' AKA vanilla ice cream.
P.S. In all fairness, someone DID bring in dirt with gummy worms hanging out!
