Ladies..I need some ideas- quickly. For whatever reason, Jeannie's science teacher gave the kids 2 days to create a project illustrating the oceanic zones. She wants to do something with jello. I'm wondering how to do the land part? Yellow cake? Graham crackers?? It would have helped very much if this teacher had sent notice and requirements home..but apparently that's not something this school knows how to do.:roll: I quit homeschooling why..?
That sounds like an awesome project! What you could do (although it might get messy!) is use blue food colouring to make the jelly different shades of blue - from light to dark. Maybe have three jellies of different darknesses. Layer them so that you can see the cross-section from the side or something (otherwise all your work is wasted!) and have breadcrumbs in a layer of white/yellow/brown jelly for the sand at the bottom, or just use a sponge cake. To make it really cool, I'd try to put in markers for significant depths, e.g. giant squid normal depth, titanic wreck, sperm whales, etc. (if you could put plastic models in the jelly that would be amazing, but probably not enough time and too tricky) or just use plastic tags. Quite a nice picture with lots of these bizarre depths you might want to mark is here. Edit: I should add that in British English, "jelly" is that dessert made of gelatin, not a fruity spread for toast.
Munchie, you and I must think alike- cause just about everything you posted is something I considered! I think I will use sponge cake, or angel food- whatever is fastest and easiest to manipulate, kwim? I plan to look for gummy ocean creatures..wish there was a gummy Titanic!:wink:
You know what they say, great minds think alike! It's fiddly, but you can cut gummy lollies into ship-shapes. I've done it before; got very sticky but they looked okay. Do keep us updated with how the project goes, though!
'K, here's what I bought- blue jello strips of chewy, gummy something or other, to cut into fish cheddar whales swedish fish some kind of colorful chewy candy for coral pound cake for land How's that sound?
JELLO MALFUNCTION!!! I mixed this jello at 6pm..it's 10:30 now, anf it's still not completely solid. I did mix four boxes together, so maybe it just takes more time that way.
You could use sugar for the sand. You can use brown or white sugar depending on your preference. We used brown sugar (sucanat) for a sandcastle cake for my daughter. It was very pretty, but the frosting was gritty---lol. We made the cake, frosted it, and then covered it in sucanat. It looked just like sand.