The one before had chocolate coins, but the music teacher Mr. Wibben wanted to keep as a decoration. Since Summer is here and I don't want him to deal with melted chocolate or an ant infestation, I decided to make a new one, without any food involved.
This time I had more time to choose nice colors of clay to make the candy.
And had time to search for other techniques to make them.
I even had time to play with them a little bit.
To make the base I used a plastic dome from a cake cover and a cardboard tube (this one I bought at Michaels).
I covered the plastic part with cardboard.
And wrapped both parts with nice paper.
After that I just glued everything together and started decorating with the candy around.
I made a hat using paper.
And my favorite thing this time, a little candy machine. I found a small light bulb and a piece in wood for a base.
My husband cut and sanded the bottom of the lamp and removed the bulb inside.
Then I filled with tiny pompoms and painted the base red.
I love miniatures.
And putting the coins to make the floating hat was so much fun. The same way I did the last one, using a chopstick in the middle.
Then placing the signs I made in paper, which I design in the computer and cut in my Cricut machine.
And it was all done.
I hope Mr. Wibben likes this little "trophy" from his work with the kids this year. I can't imagine one teacher being able to work with 92 kids and having them putting a great show like they did this past Spring, doing after school rehearsals daily for hours and working so hard ( for 4 months, I would be dead).
Thank you Mr. Wibben.
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