Edible Landforms

We've been learning about landforms and bodies of water, so I wanted the kids to be able to do a related hands-on activity.  After considering play-dough, I found a Pinterest board where they could make edible landforms instead.  Thank you to all the parents who sent in Nilla wafers, brownies, coconut, frosting, graham crackers, and more to make this day successful!  Here are some of our pictures from the afternoon.

The teams' objectives were:
*Use as many different landforms/bodies of water as possible
*Be creative
*Be neat
*Use details and do careful work!

Each group got plates of supplies and frosting with which to create their masterpiece!

The rules for classroom chaos landform creating:

Each group had 3 or 4 team members:

I'm loving the excitement on Mary's face here:

And here are the masterpieces!

After recess and clean-up, we came back to draw, label, and write about our landform art.

And of course, if you make edible landforms, you must eat them!  So the last five minutes or so of school, you would've seen our class doing this:

I loved seeing how they shared the different treats within the tray:

This is the face of a happily sugared-up third grader:

Some of my favorite quotes from the day:
"Miss Raski, you pretend this is a strict class but this is FUN!"
"I'm going to tell my kids about this some day!"

Great job, everyone!!!!