What a great idea; cooking and architecture! How about buying
graham crackers and using them as the base. Then buy or make
royal icing as glue. Buy different candies for architectural
elements; sticks, column, spheres, etc. Have the kids create a
'facade' of a building style. If you are really adventurous,
have them do a complete standing building. Build these on
cardboard sheets covered with wax paper or aluminum foil. If you
are using icing in tubes, the kids could create scroll work with
the icing on wax paper and then 'glue' it to the buildings with
royal icing. If all of this is outside of your budget, you can
ask the kids to bring either a bag of candy or a tube of icing
and then share. Take a tour of the candy isle and let your
architectural creativity run wild. It would be worth buying a
box of disposible gloves for the kids, and maybe dress them in
aprons. From: Mark Alexander
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2002 10:21 AM To: ArtsEdNet Talk Subject: Baking Architecture R