The time of modern youth brings new hobbies and new pranks. Now, on the eve of school time, the issue of purchasing office supplies and other supplies necessary for study becomes relevant. But to surprise classmates and teachers, some are resorting to the option of using edible school supplies.
What it is?
These are analogues of ordinary stationery, most often capable of performing their original functions (drawing, gluing, washing), but they can be eaten. It sounds strange, but this is a great way for children to have fun and have fun.
There are stores that sell such goods in finished form, but most likely children will prefer to make edible school supplies with their own hands, because the process itself is a fun game where, in addition to accuracy and precision, you can show your imagination and individuality.
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How to make edible school supplies?
It all depends on what kind of stationery item will be made. It’s worth immediately considering that the production of multi-colored pencils and markers will require more effort and financial costs, because it will be necessary to purchase or manufacture raw materials for them. And items such as an eraser, glue, a simple pencil, and plasticine are less expensive to manufacture.
What might you need? Any products that are at home or that you have enough imagination for: banana, cheese, crab sticks, straws, sausages, chocolate bars, chewing gum, marshmallows, marmalade, food coloring, food pencils, marzipan, sugar mastic. In addition, a variety of empty boxes and parts of ordinary stationery, ice or confectionery molds, a board, a ruler, and a knife will be useful.
Pockets for small items or how to sew a children's organizer
This children's organizer is especially suitable for use in the garden. The cabinet doors there are very narrow and it is difficult to find a suitable holder in the store. In addition, you decide for yourself how many and what size pockets there will be. Here the top ones are for underwear, T-shirts and socks, the bottom ones are for sportswear and shoes.
Based on this master class, you can sew an organizer or, for example, pockets for small items on a crib. How to calculate fabric consumption if you want to sew according to your measurements is written at the end of the material.
How to sew a children's organizer
We cut the fabric into 3 pieces, each measuring 33x38 cm.
How to make edible school supplies with your own hands: simple recipes
Simple options for making school stationery:
- Eraser. It can be made by simply cutting it out of different products (cheese, crab stick, dense chocolate candy filling). The eraser can have any shape: from a regular rectangle or a beveled parallelogram to a voluminous fruit. It is much more interesting to prepare an eraser from mastic and marzipan. Here you can show your imagination and add different bright colors to the item. To do this, the finished mastic of two colors (usually blue and red) and marzipan (white) is rolled out (the thickness of the marzipan is 2 millimeters, and the thickness of the mastic is about 5-7 mm) and connected to each other in a “sandwich” so that the mastic is in the middle. An eraser is cut from this blank. The finished product will be exactly like the original. You can also make an eraser from gelatin, sugar and food coloring. To do this, you need to dissolve 2 teaspoons of gelatin in hot water, add 1 tsp. sugar and a few drops/grains of food coloring of any color, mix the mixture, pour it into ice molds or just into a deep plate and put it in the refrigerator. After hardening, the mass is taken out and the eraser of the desired shape is cut out.
- Glue. How to make edible school supplies that will be absolutely similar to the original? Edible PVA glue is prepared very simply: you need to take marshmallows, a little milk, mix them in a deep saucepan or pot and heat over low heat, stirring. After the mass becomes homogeneous, it is left to cool. In the meantime, you need to prepare containers for edible glue. To do this, thoroughly wash the empty PVA bottle with running water, then rinse with a solution of soda and rinse well, and let the bottle dry. New glue can be poured into the bottle. Its appearance is a white and viscous mass, and if you pour it on bread or cookies and put it together, they will stick together. Another option for glue is to use chewing gum as a raw material. They also need to be heated so that they melt, and then poured into a bottle. This glue filling can be not only white, which will amuse others.
- Pens. There are several options to make them. The first is to attach a lollipop to a regular pen (if it is thin) or to its shaft, or attach sweets/jelly beans/lollipops/chewing gum to the back of the pen so that only the edge is edible. The second is to insert the pen shaft into any edible product. This could be a sausage, a chocolate bar, a pack of Frutella or Mentos sweets (to do this, you need to drill a hole in them using a drill and a thin drill), or a crab stick. You can wrap the handle shaft with multi-colored strips of mastic, and the result will be a big piece of candy.
School supplies decor: how to decorate school paper clips and paper clips
To decorate your school paper clips and clips, you can use bright, decorative adhesive tape. In addition, for such decoration of school supplies you will need very little material, and this school little thing will please the eye for a long time.
Decorative adhesive tape can be tied to a paper clip or attached to it in the form of a flag. Such beautiful paper clips can even be used as unusual bookmarks.
Fluffy pom poms will look cute as decoration for school supplies, especially paper clips. These DIY pom-pom crafts will lift your spirits with bright colors and decorate your school office in an original way.
Complex options
These options include making sets of markers and pencils. Since more ingredients are used here, the procedure is considered complex. How to make edible school supplies, and in particular colored pencils?
To create the base you need to prepare: marshmallows, seeds and puffed rice. For dyes (in dry form) the following products:
- yellow - corn, banana, bee pollen, pineapple, peanuts;
- orange - apricot, carrots, soybeans, peach;
- red - raspberry, strawberry, wolfberry;
- cream - apples, rice, sesame seeds, macadamia nuts, coconut flakes;
- green - kiwi, green beans, pistachios and pumpkin seeds;
- blue - blueberries, peas;
- purple - blueberries, wolfberry, prunes;
- black - almonds, prunes, wild sesame, Brazil nuts.
One product can be selected for each individual dye. The prepared ingredients are ground into powder (separately for each color). Heat the marshmallow ball until it melts, add seeds and puffed rice into this mass, and then colored powder made from previously processed products to give color to the pencil. Mix, place in a mold or shape the plastic mass with your hands into the shape of an object. Leave to dry. Perform this procedure for each color product. You can then use the pencils as is, or you can wrap them in a wrapping paper label to give them a store-bought appearance.
Useful tips
How to make edible school supplies was described above. The main thing is to follow safety rules when working and further consuming such items.
Even if a child makes “new items” for his school bag on his own, parents must control it. To prevent an edible item from causing harm to health (poisoning, intoxication, vomiting, diarrhea, allergies, etc.), when preparing inedible parts, they must be thoroughly washed and disinfected.
Such accessories should also be stored separately, preferably in a food container. The shelf life of edible items depends on the material from which they are made, but it is advisable to consume them no later than three days from the date of manufacture.
