Tootsie Roll Procrastination

My friend Samantha is having a competition on her blog, and I, naturally, waited until after the last minute to participate. Better late than never, right?

Contest: Find the most creative way to use a specific candy - whether in a craft, poem, dance, etc. When I read that the candy for the month was Tootsie Rolls, I remembered Tootsie Roll flowers that I had seen years ago. Back in high school, we took a field trip to Ehove, the local career/vocational school. We signed up for classes to take, and being the overachiever that I was, I signed up for things like business, medical (like I would ever succeed around blood), and other worthwhile things. Other people signed up for culinary arts and got to make Tootsie Roll flowers. I was jealous.

Flash forward 10+ years, and I saw use for the skill that other people had learned on that field trip. Presenting my Tootsie Roll flowers!

Step One: Gather ingredients.

Step Two: Divide Tootsie Rolls into 5ish pieces each. Flatten those pieces into petal-like shapes.

Step Three: Assemble petals around a center roll and insert a toothpick.

Beautiful, aren't they? (That odd-looking one on the far left is a calla lily. Obviously.) What did we do with the finished product?

The only sensible thing to do . . .

We ate them.

Now you should go to Sam's blog and vote for me!

Samuel the Lamanite

I wish I could say that Larkin and I taught the twins how to do this in Family Home Evening (see earlier "David and Goliath" post), but after learning about Samuel the Lamanite months ago, Will and Anna's memories have retained this part of the story.

Script -
Anna: I'm Samuel the Lamanite, and don't throw arrows at me.
Will: I'm a Bad Guy, and I throw arrows anyway.
Anna: Awww, man!

Maybe next time, we'll emphasize the whole "teaching the people about Jesus" part of this story. Except due to the fact that the twins decided to play this out on their own without any prompting from us, maybe we'll wait to teach that part. I don't want my kids to call others to repentance in play groups quite yet.

David and Goliath

We learned about David and Goliath during Family Home Evening the other night. We acted it out to help make it more real for the kids. I think it worked.



That was almost as much fun as Jonah and the whale from last week. The people of Ninevah/Will really liked the part where the whale/Daddy spit out Jonah/Anna. He laughed pretty hard and then re-enacted that scene for the next few days.