Circle Time: The Show and Tell Weekly Thread
Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid’s dress you ever wore and tell us the story; show off the homemade soup you cooked last night; or tell us all about the scarf you made for your first knitting project. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.
Let’s begin.
A few weeks ago, I went to the ChickieNob and Wolvog’s school to talk about candy-making and allow the kids to make royal icing alphabet letters. I brought in one of my travel boxes of equipment and spoke about sugar art and showed them some of my tools as well as some burn marks on the back of my hand from a recent lollipop incident. I felt like a freakin’ Willy Wonka. One child begged if she could just sit on my lap to be close to me and another told me that he really really really liked the ChickieNob and Wolvog so was he invited to their birthday party this year?
Truly, I wanted to tell the kids that this should be a lesson in life: treat everyone as if their mother could be Willy Wonka because you just don’t know if they’re an ordinary person or the source of extraordinary candy.
I especially loved the part in each session (I did the same activity twice) where the kids shouted out things and asked if I could make it out of sugar or icing or cake. And then the asker would fall over screaming in ecstasy when I’d reply, “yes, I can truly make anything out of sugar.” A firetruck? Yes, I can truly make anything out of sugar. My teddy bear? Yes, I can make it out of sugar. A sleek, 29-gauge Follistim pen? Yes, I can make it out of sugar.
Now, when I walk down the hall to drop them off at school, it’s like the kids are seeing a rock star. “That’s her,” I heard a girl murmur to her mother as I helped the ChickieNob with her coat. “That’s the lady with all the candy.”
You would think that my kids would get more sugar, but alas, they just get better sugar in the same small amount as everyone else.
I made a few sample flowers to pass around the room along with lollipops and caramels. Here’s how they looked before they were crushed in a preschooler’s death grip when he refused to relinquish their sweet goodness to the next child in the circle.
A bag of sugar flowers, by the way, will be included in our Purim baskets this year as part of our overall theme of rebirth-renewal-reflection. Think of it like party-in-a-bag.
And yes, I will soon do my Purim giveaway. I am just getting some pictures together this week as I do a few early baskets.
What are you showing today?
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- If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Saturday night (or earlier in the week or on Monday if you can’t do the weekend), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item. The list opens every Saturday night and closes on Tuesday night.
- You must mention Show and Tell and include a link back to this post in your post so people can find the rest of the class. This spreads new readership around through the list. This is now required.
- Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink for the post via the Mr. Linky feature (not your blog’s main url–use the permalink for your specific Show and Tell post).
- Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week. And everyone loves a good “ooooh” and “aaaah” and to be queen (or king) of the playground for five minutes so leave them a comment if you can.
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- If you want it…
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“I felt like a freakin’ Willy Wonka.”
Well, your name IS Lollipop and you DO have a way of helping people move forward with their dreams.
Haven’t seen you eat dishes, though.
(But I know you can make them out of sugar.)
LOL at Lori’s comment. You are our own personal Willie Wonka!
Your flowers look great. I love to play with royal icing and fondant. I haven’t tried any lollipops though…
I would have loved a 29 gauge follistim pen made out of sugar. That profasi injection would have been nicer out of sugar too. Can you make it in chocolate?
Can I come over and lick your wallpaper?
Okay – that was just kind of weird, but Lori started it!!!
How cool are those??? you’re magical. I am convinced.
I’m with LJ, – you are magical. No amount of coffee would do it for me!
I’m impressed! I always watch cooking/baking shows, which make me feel like I should be able to create five layer wedding cakes in no time flat, but the result is always much less elaborate than in my head…
The flowers look beautiful!
this is just awesome — terrific show and tell! the wolvog and chickienob must be so proud of their lollymum! and you are a superstar forever in these kids minds and bellies.
“Now, when I walk down the hall to drop them off at school, it’s like the kids are seeing a rock star.”
Well you are a rock star for us, so that is a completely valid comment!
Your sugar flowers are gorgeous!!! I am thoroughly impressed! 🙂
Awesome! Sugar and beauty all in one place. I’m as amazed as those kids apparently.
those candy flowers are gorgeous!!
You ARE Willy Wonka. You are the Pied Piper, a rock star …. Kumbya-singin’ mofo freakin’, black-boot wearin’ magnificent soul.
One day, one of those kids will grow up and write a blog post aout the Sugar Lady who came to their school one day, and how magical it was.
XOX
You continue to amaze me…true ambassador for our community (and what my Leadership class in my MBA program called a “super-connector”) and now THIS…sugar art. As if I didn’t already, I now hold you in the same esteem as ChickieNob and Wolvog’s classmates. I secretly harbor ambitions to chuck it all and become a baker in an Ace of Cakes kind of bakery and spend my days making beautiful creations out of the things I like best in the world…sugar and fats. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I am completely devoid of artistic talent. But you, you! The flowers are beautiful. And the follistem pen…Duff has nothing on you!
Mulitalented! I’m so impressed (and now, hungry…)
Those are so pretty! I’m impressed.
That’s awesome! The flowers are beautiful. Totally agree that you are magical.
I’m hoping my ice cream maker will make me a popular mom.
I want to come play at your house!! I can imagine the kids think you live in a hansel and gretel kinda house. (at least I do). 🙂
Beautiful flowers!
Oh, and re: your status message, yes I know exactly what that means. Next weekend I am at your disposal.
Those are gorgeous!
And LOL about what Lori said. Very true.
Those look fantastic.
How AWESOME!! I would have loved to been a fly on the wall in that classroom.
Who want a superstar for a mom when they’ve got Willy Wonka?!?!