First they filled the bottom of a circular cake pan with marshmallows (yes, they had the foresight to spray it with Pam first, thank goodness) and put them in the oven until they were slightly melted. Next, they stuck Nutty Bars into the marshmallows for the vertical pieces, slopped some peanut butter on top, and then laid Nutty Bar "stone slabs" across the tops of some of them. For the others, they broke Nutty Bars and positioned them near the vertical stones. Once they had done that, I notice what they were doing and made a suggestion. We then built an altar in the middle of the pan, laid a plastic hippo on top of it, and then slathered the hippo in red icing to be the druidic sacrifice. We wanted to use a plastic cat we found, but our youngest sister cried, so we stuck with the hippo. Besides, it had its mouth wide open, so we decided it looked more like it was in agony. Thanks to the fact that Ben and Todd were the judges, we got honorable mention for best appearance. Unfortunately most people didn't see the sacrifice at first, but we got the desired results when we pointed it out: some people looked slightly disturbed, but others really enjoyed our morbid sense of humor. It took a couple minutes for Dan Chan to stop laughing, and one of the younger boys promptly showed it to his mother while declaring how cool it was.
Here are some pictures of Stonehenge:
3 comments:
There is nothing quite like the death-agonies of a sacrificial hippopotamus for drawing omens, as you clearly know. Of course, lacking that, the druids used lots of humans. as you also know.
"Way cool," as the youngsters say.
We did find a small doll that would have worked, but out of respect for my mother we stuck to animals. She didn't like the idea of druidic sacrifice at a church function to begin with.
So this is the wonderful stonehenge your sister was telling me about....
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