Candy Sushi Teen Program
Posted: January 31, 2014 Filed under: Libraries, Programming, Young Adult | Tags: food, fun, programming, teens Leave a comment
All the colors of the rainbow
We had a great program the other night for teens and tweens at my library: CANDY SUSHI! It was so cool to watch everyone come up with different designs for their sushi. We put out lots of candy, I mean LOTS. The ingredients were:
- Fruit roll ups (to be the nori)
- Rice Krispy treats (to be the rice)
- Swedish Fish
- Gummy sharks
- Gummy worms
- Skittles
- Sunkist gummy fruit
- Airheads Xtremes (a flexible length of rainbow sour/sweet candy)
- Twizzlers
- Nerds
Just like the show “Iron Chef,” we also had a secret ingredient which was candied melon strips. Everyone constructed their sushi for about 40 minutes. Then they all put their plates up at the main table and voted on Most Colorful, Most Authentic, and Best in Show. The plates were numbered to keep things simple and anonymous. The winner received chopsticks, origami paper, and a Japanese snack. Best in Show got some dried fish snack too! (A gag gift but still fun!)
All the pictures from the program are up on Abington Free Library’s Picasa site here. I would definitely do this program again. It would be great for all ages, not just tweens and teens, but also families with younger children as well.
Lindsay Cummings 