June Meeting: Food Art

For our last meeting of the school year, we made book-inspired food art depicting scenes from one of the two book choices for this month, Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai and Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson. Five of the six attendees chose to read Shooting Kabul and one chose to read Roller Girl so before we started our food activity, we shared brief summaries of each book, had a quick discussion about each, and watched a few clips of roller derby action since none of us could quite picture what a roller derby bout looked like.

After that, we got right to the fun stuff, using graham crackers, mini marshmallows, pretzel sticks, vanilla frosting, chocolate frosting, sprinkles, and M&Ms to create scenes from the books. Pictures of the process and the finished products are below.

The Process

Shooting Kabul Food Art

Mantu, Fadi's sister's favorite food

 The truck pulling away without Mariam

 Fadi's camera

Roller Girl Food Art

Roller derby rink #1

Roller derby rink #2

Roller derby rink #3

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