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Marshmallow Sculpting (And Burning)

June 11, 2013

Our family loves to go on vacation and have adventures, especially at the beach!

On our recent camping trip at New Brighton State Beach in Santa Cruz (AMAZING!), we went through A LOT of MARSHMALLOWS! You see we just don’t toast marshmallows and eat them… we play with them! We build with them and burn them.

Before our vacation we stocked up on TONS of marshmallows! Everywhere we saw cool shapes, sizes, and colors of marshmallows, we bought them. Once we got packing we realized we probably over did it, but we didn’t care! We packed all of the marshmallows, toothpicks, wooden kabob skewers, and more building supplies.

Then after dinner, with the fire roaring, we spread out all the marshmallows and supplies on the picnic table and we create. Everyone builds there own unique creations out of marshmallows. Then when they were done (and they have a photo of it), we burn them! The burned sculptures grow and deform and stick to the logs. The gooey burning mess looked super icky.

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Cardboard Palace

Cardboard Kingdom

December 28, 2012

Welcome to my cardboard palace! This 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, and a large living roomed palace is unlike any other kingdom.

First, we stared out at Ikea getting some shelves and other stuff for our new Lego room. After my mom and dad unpacked the boxes, they tossed the boxes off the top of the stairs. While they put all the cabinets and furniture together, my brother Carter and I got to work.

We stood up the boxes to make the first few walls and figured out that we were definitely going to need A LOT of duct tape. We started with the walls, then the door, and then added separate separate rooms, creating our cardboard palace little by little.

Once the structure was in place, we began adding details like cardboard shelves to put our Christmas candy stashes in! We added cardboard furniture (the bathroom, beds, and windows, etc), and finally, we decorated, put up pictures, and moved in!

Believe it or not, we camped out, slept, and lived in our cardboard palace for more than a week! This was definitely our best fort ever!

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