Working on projects such as model of a cell, or making a map can be educational as well as entertaining. Now here’s a suggestion to make project work in your homeschool classroom even better by making it edible. The homeschool students create a model using edible goodies and once the finished product has been photographed for the record book, they get to eat it. Here are some ideas about edible projects that can be made.
Cake based country map
On a vanilla cake add the topography of a map using chocolate chips for mountains, rice crispies for plains, and green M&Ms for forests. You could also use peanut butter to give added texture or perhaps butter cream icing would be a better bet. Make a different map each day for individual states.
Cereal based organ system model
Empty out a packet of mixed cereal and use the different colors to build the organ system. You could use the respiratory system or digestive system or even the circulatory system. Different colored cereals can be embedded in layer of thick custard to form the organ systems. Set it in the fridge before you let them eat it.
Cookies decorated as atoms
Use a plain cookie and frost it with sweet cream. In the center add a colored mini marshmallows for the nucleus. Now add chocolate sauce as rings on which the M&M electrons can orbit. Simple to construct and yummy treat to eat when finished. You can play around with different colors for the M&Ms depending on whether the atom is charged positively or negatively.
The Earth’s layers in a cake
Using plain vanilla batter add yellow, red and orange colors to the different layers you bake in a round tin. You can decorate the outer part of the Earth model with blue and green fondant to outline the oceans and continents on the planet. When you cut into the cake the slices will show the different layers in the earth’s crust as well.
There is no limiting the imagination when it comes to combining projects with food. Come up with your own ideas with the help of your homeschool students.
