candy construction — book layout and design (sample pages)
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Kids passionately love everything about candy — the sweet satisfying taste, of course, but also the smells, the colors, the shapes, and the textures. So why settle for just eating it? In Candy Construction author Sharon Bowers reveals how inexpensive and readily available store-bought candy offers an irresistible treasure trove of crafting material. Armed with a bedazzling variety of sugary shapes, from rolls and sticks to ropes and strips to rings and cubes, there is no limit to what kids can build — using Candy Construction as inspiration. Imagine a chess set with Hershey’s Kisses playing pieces! Candy snakes made from Necco Wafers and bubble-gum tape, with M&M’s for eyes! There are spaceships, race cars, planes, woodland creatures, jewelry, and more — all crafted from candy.Perfect for birthday parties and rainy day activities, the more complex Candy Construction projects offer plans for complete tabletop scenes, including a construction site with dump truck and construction workers; a steam train with an engine, tanker cars, caboose, and boxcars; and a magical castle with stacked cookie towers. There are also fun projects for holiday decorations for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more. Every project is accompanied by full-color photos and easy-to-follow, step-by-step building instructions.With small children of her own, Sharon Bowers knows the challenges of preventing excessive candy consumption. To her pleasant surprise, she found that offering kids an alternative use for candy actually cut back on the eating — without eliminating any of the fun! Parents will welcome this creative new way of looking at candy and using it up, while watching their young construction workers put their imaginations and hands to work!The Author:Sharon Bowers is the author of Ghoulish Goodies and three other books. She writes an award-winning grilling column for Cabin Life magazine and is a former producer for the Food Network’s Web site. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.Available September 2010ISBN: 978-1-60342-548-3TRANSCRIPT
Sharon Bowers, Author of Ghoulish Goodies
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BuILDEdible Race Cars,
Castles, and Other Cool Stuff
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introduction, 00
Chapter 1BLuEprIntS AnD ConStruCtIon notES
Chapter 2thIngS thAt go VroomCandy Construction Site Fudge Brownie Steam Train Race CarsBiplane and Helicopter Outer Space
Chapter 3fLIghtS of fAnCyPyramids of Giza Pirate Ship Martian-Mallows and AliensFairy-Tale Castle
Chapter 4fun AnD gAmESBoard GamesArm CandyCandy Sushi
Chapter 5(un)nAturAL WonDErSCreepy-CrawliesWoodland Creatures
Chapter 6hoLIDAy trEAtSEasterThanksgivingChristmas
Appendix
ContEntS
1. Absolutely no eating while building: What construction worker snacks on the job?
2. One item can be chosen from among the supplies, or one piece of what was built, but it’s to be eaten after cleanup.
3. Candy construction workers always brush their teeth after work.
on-SItE ruLES Photos © K
evin Kennefick, Illustrations ©
David Sheldon
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4. Press M&M’s and Nerds on the back to
make warts. Stick with the all-green look
shown in the photo or be creative with an
assortment of colors.
5. To make each webbed foot, break a pret-
zel stick into three pieces and press the
pieces, fanned out, into the dough under
one of the back leg outlines. For the web-
bing, cut a triangle of fruit leather that’s
wider than the fanned pretzel pieces.
Drape it over the pretzels and press down
between them.
Makes 1 Toad
What You’ll needq Approximately 1⁄3 cup Butterscotch Dough (see
page 000)q Green Dotsq Mini chocolate chipsq Small round green candies (a combination of
Nerds and M&M’s works well)q 2 pretzel sticksq Green fruit leather
What to Do1. For each frog, shape about 1⁄3 cup of the
dough into a large rounded disk, a little
narrower toward the back half. Put it on
the plate or platter you’ll use for serving.
2. For eyes, press mini chocolate chips into
the centers of green Dots. Press two Dots
into the front of the frog, set wide apart.
3. For the mouth, use the tip of a paring
knife to trace a wide smile under the eyes,
down low on the edge of the disk. Also
use the knife to trace the outline of back
legs.
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Woodland Creatures�� 5
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�e ĈAStlEA With the wafer cookies lying flat on the
work surface, use mortar to build two
side walls that are two wafer cookies
wide and nine cookies high. Mortar the
thin sides of the cookies, as shown.
A Build the keep front and back as if you
were laying bricks: alternate rows of two
whole cookies with rows of one whole
cookie flanked by two halves. (When
cutting the cookies in half, use a sharp
chef’s knife). Again, mortar the thin
sides of the cookies.
What to Do1. To build the walls of the keep (the interior
building, with four walls and three towers):
A Select a platter or cutting board to serve
as your work surface and, ultimately,
your castle’s base.
What You’ll needq 2 packages filled wafer cookiesq Chocolate or Vanilla Mortar (see page 000) or
1 can store-bought frostingq 1 (8" x 4") pound cake (the kind found in the
frozen-dessert section of the supermarket)q 2 graham crackersq 1 (1.55-ounce) chocolate bar, such as Hershey’s
(the kind that are evenly divided into rectangles), optional
q Chocolate-covered pretzel rounds or star-shaped cookies
q Candy for decorating: mini jelly beans, dragees, licorice string, sour strips, gum tape, mini cookies (any color or shape you like that’s not too heavy to hang on a wafer wall with frosting mortar)
q 2 (18-ounce) packages round sandwich cookies (such as Oreos or Golden Oreos)
q Ice cream cones (the pointy kind)q Sprinklesq Fruit leather
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Side walls of the keep, two cookies wide
Front wall of the keep, alternating whole and half cookies
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Put Away the legos!
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Candy ConstructionFull-color; photographs and illustrations
throughout; 144 pages; 7 x 8
Paper: $14.95 US / $18.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-60342-548-3; No. 62548
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September 2010
Sharon Bowers is the author of Ghoul-
ish Goodies and three other books. She
writes an award-winning grilling column
for Cabin Life magazine and is a former
producer for the Food Network’s web-
site. She lives in New York City with her
husband and two sons.
thE Author
In Candy Construction, author Sharon Bowers reveals how inexpensive and readily available store-bought candy offers an irresistible treasure-trove of crafting material. Her projects are sure to delight every candy-loving child and provide families with hours of crafting fun.
Great for birthday parties, holidays, and other special occasions, Candy Construction is packed with creative ideas to ignite young imaginations.
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AvailableSeptember 2010!
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