Ooey Gooey Fun

I recently purchased the book, The Marshmallow Incident by Judi and Ron Barrett (the author and illustrator of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs). The book tells the story of two neighboring towns, the town of Left and the town of Right. The towns are divided by a yellow dotted line and the residents are restricted to their towns based on whether they are left or right handed; they are not allowed to cross the line. The line is guarded by ambidextrous knights who happen to also guard an enormous supply of marshmallows that one of the knights won through a poetry contest. Well, eventually someone crosses the line and the knights have to act. They grab the nearest ammunition, which happens to be marshmallows, and thus begins the marshmallow incident. C and R both enjoy the book and we have been reading it over and over again. When I find a book that captures their interest this much, it always motivates me to expand upon the book with a few book related projects.

We connected marshmallows with toothpicks and straws to create figures and geometric shapes.



Building a marshmallow pyramid was a challenging task. This one fell down immediately after the picture was taken.

Tic Tac Toe with marshmallows was fun! We stuck two different colored straws in our marshmallows to distinguish them for our game (I removed them for this photo). If I had thought ahead, I would have bought the Halloween marshmallows I saw at Target recently and we could use the different shapes or colors to play.

Of course, we made s'mores. This was a lot of fun thanks to a recommendation for the S'mores Maker from my friend Susana.We ate way too many marshmallows, but we had a lot of ooey gooey fun!