For my final project, I made a winter landscape out of sweets. I bought a good sized rectangular tupperware and filled it with marshmallow fluff for snow. Fluff is cool because it always molds to the container it's in and after some time, always gets smooth on the surface no matter how you've manipulated it. Then i made trees by cutting the tips of marshmallows so they form a pointy tip, and I covered them in green icing. After that, I made the snowmen. I used two marshmallows for each, "glued" them together with white icing, and made a face and buttons out of chocolate chips, which I again attached with white icing. I cut fruit rollups to use as a scarf and attached with icing as well. I then stuck toothpicks in each side of the snowmen for arms. I placed them in the snow (fluff) and tried to secure its upright stance with a toothpick, though one of the snowmen ended up falling down. I also incorporated red and green sour patch kids and leaned them up against the snowmen as if they were making them. Sadly one of the kids got crushed when the snowman it was making fell on top of it. On a brighter note, some of the kids had a lot of fun laying in the snow making snow angels. For a finishing touch, I put dots of icing in the shape of snowflakes on the walls around the inside of the container to give the idea that it was snowing.
I thought of this idea because it's appropriate for the holiday season and represents the snowy time of year that we are about to be in, as well as the fun times I've had in my life playing in the snow. I learned a lot in this class and had a lot of fun, and I'm really glad I was able to get into the class after the first day!
