Making marshmallow and toothpick sculptures is an activity that I’ve been wanting to try with Maia for a while now.
I think I first came across the idea of building toothpick sculptures in one of MaryAnn Kohl’s books—maybe Scribble Art.
I just kept it in the back of my mind as part of my neverending list of artful projects to do one day.
Until early December that is.
I found myself in the baking aisle of the grocery store for the umpteenth time and finally snagged a bag of mini marshmallows.
Since I remembered something about hard, stale marshmallows working better than soft ones, I spread them out on a cookie sheet, and stashed them out of sight above the kitchen cupboards (otherwise I’m sure they wouldn’t have lasted long with our marshmallow-loving kid around). But of course out of sight is out of mind, and I completely forgot about them until yesterday.