How to make edible school supplies: recipes and subtleties

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

The time of modern youth brings new hobbies and new jokes. Now, on the eve of school time, the issue of acquiring stationery and other supplies necessary for study becomes relevant. But to surprise classmates and teachers, some resort to using edible school supplies.

What is this?

These are analogues of ordinary stationery, most often capable of performing their original functions (drawing, gluing, washing), but they can be eaten. Sounds weird, but it's a great way for kids to have fun and have fun.

There are stores that sell such goods ready-made, but most likely children will prefer to make edible school supplies with their own hands, because the process itself is a fun game, where, in addition to precision and accuracy, you can show your imagination and individuality.

How to make edible school supplies?

It all depends on what kind of stationery item will bebe made. It is worth considering right away that the production of multi-colored pencils and markers will require more effort and financial costs, because it will be necessary to purchase or manufacture raw materials and materials for them. And items like eraser, glue, pencil, plasticine are less expensive to make.

What might you need? Any products that are at home, or that have enough imagination: banana, cheese, crab sticks, straws, sausages, chocolate bars, chewing gums, marshmallows, marmalade, food coloring, food pencils, marzipan, sugar mastic. In addition, a variety of empty boxes and parts of ordinary stationery, ice or confectionery molds, a board, a ruler, a knife will come in handy.

How to make DIY edible school supplies: simple recipes

Simple options for making school stationery:

1. Eraser. It can be made by simply cutting it out from different products (cheese, crab stick, dense chocolate candy filling). The shape of the eraser can be anything: from an ordinary rectangle or a beveled parallelogram to a voluminous fruit. It is much more interesting to prepare an eraser from mastic and marzipan. Here you can show your imagination and add different bright colors to the subject. To do this, the finished mastic of two colors (usually blue and red) and marzipan (white) is rolled out (the thickness of the marzipan is 2 mm, and the thickness of the mastic is about 5-7 mm) and interconnected with a "sandwich" so that the mastic is in the middle. Froman eraser is cut out of this blank. The finished product will be exactly like the original. You can also make an eraser from gelatin, sugar and dye (food). To do this, dissolve 2 teaspoons of gelatin in hot water, add 1 tsp. sugar and a few drops / grains of food paint of any color, mix the mixture, pour it into ice molds or just into a deep plate and refrigerate. After hardening, the mass is taken out and the eraser of the desired shape is cut out.
2. Glue. How to make edible school supplies that will be absolutely similar to the original? Edible PVA glue is prepared very simply: you need to take marshmallow marshmallows, a little milk, mix them in a deep saucepan or Turk and warm over low heat, stirring. After the mass becomes homogeneous, it is left to cool. In the meantime, you need to prepare a container for edible glue. To do this, thoroughly wash the empty PVA bottle with running water, then rinse with a solution of soda and rinse well, let the bottle dry. New glue can be poured into the vial. Its appearance is a white and viscous mass, and if you pour it on bread or cookies and put it together, they will stick together. Another option for glue is to use chewing gum as a raw material. They also need to be heated so that they melt, and then pour into a vial. Such a filling for glue can be not only white, which will amuse others.
3. Pens. To make them, there are several options. The first is to attach a lollipop to a regular pen (if it is thin) or to its rod or attach sweets / marmalades / lollipops /chewing gum on the back of the handle so that only the edge is edible. The second is to insert the pen shaft into any edible product. It can be a sausage, a chocolate bar, a pack of Frutella or Mentos sweets (for this you have to drill a hole in them with a drill and a thin drill), a crab stick. You can wrap the pen shaft with multi-colored strips of mastic, as a result you will get a big candy.

Complex options

These options include making sets of markers and pencils. Since more ingredients are used here, the procedure is considered complex. How to make edible school supplies, especially colored pencils?

To create the base, you need to prepare: marshmallows, seeds and puffed rice. For dyes (in dry form) such products:

• yellow - corn, banana, bee pollen, pineapple, peanut;
• orange - apricot, carrot, soybean, peach;
• red - raspberry, strawberry, dereza;
• cream - apples, rice, sesame, macadamia nuts, coconut flakes;
• green - kiwi, green beans, pistachios and pumpkin seeds;
• blue - blueberries, peas;
• purple - blueberry, wolfberry, prunes;
• black - almonds, prunes, wild sesame, brazil nuts.

One product can be selected for each individual dye. Prepared ingredients are ground into powder (separately foreach color). Heat the marshmallow ball so that it melts, pour seeds and puffed rice into this mass, and then colored powder made from previously processed products to give color to the pencil. Mix, put in a mold or give the plastic mass the shape of an object with your hands. Leave to dry. Do this procedure for the product of each color. Then you can use the pencils like this, or you can wrap them in a wrapping paper label to give them a store-bought look.

Helpful tips

How to make edible school supplies was described above. The main thing is to follow the safety rules in the process of work and further consumption of such items.

Even if a child makes "novelties" for his schoolbag on his own, parental control must be made. In order for an edible item not to cause harm to he alth (poisoning, intoxication, vomiting, diarrhea, allergies, etc.), when preparing inedible parts, they must be thoroughly washed and disinfected.

Store such accessories also separately, preferably in a food container. The shelf life of edible items depends on the material from which they are made, but it is advisable to consume them no later than three days from the date of manufacture.