NOTE: I have resolved to be more consistent in posting blogs. Best wishes for 2010.
Christmas sugar cookies have always been an important part of our holiday celebration. This year Mitra wanted to do something different. The final product is available on the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZbIqd_8Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZbIqd_8Eg
The story of how it came to happen is a little more complicated. Mitra wanted to do something:
“Different: instead of simply making a plate of colorful sugar cookies, we use them as characters in our diorama.”
“Diorama?” Nazy and I both asked.
“We will want to tell a story with the cookies. That’s why I asked you to get new and different cookie cutters. I found a cookie cutter shaped like a rat!”
“That certainly sounds Christmasy,”
We asked Darius for his opinion:
“Dar? What do you know about dioramas?”
“That’s a really messy stomach problem, right?”
Undaunted, we poured an abundance of energy into the diorama project.
“We want to ‘tell a story’,” Mitra explained.
“How do we get the sugar cookies to stand up?” Melika, ever practical, asked.
“That’s a simple implementation detail,” I explained. “I don’t understand how you tell a story in one scene.”
“That’s right!” Darius exclaimed. “We need to make a stop action movie – with sugar cookie characters. The diorama is out.”
“Before we stop the action,” Nazy said, “we need to make the cookies.”
“But – before we do that, we need to have the script,” Mitra replied. “We need to identify the characters. I think that my rat should play the lead.” Mitra brandished a giant sugar cookie cutter.
“That’s not a rat,” I noted. “It looks like a squirrel. We should use the lions.”
“It could be a skunk, Dad.” Melika observed. “Let’s not forget the Brontosaurs.”
“Maybe it’s a hedgehog,” Darius said. “We could do a Noah’s Ark story.”
“What about the Salvador Dali lips?” Nazy asked.
In the end, a double batch of sugar cookies was baked, and a script (using dinosaurs, lips, lions, hedgehogs, squirrels, dolphins, angels and numbers) was written. Mitra’s digital camera was taped to the spiral staircase and the entire family took part in bringing the story a man-eating – oops I won’t spoil the show. Please check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZbIqd_8Eg
Best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.
2 comments:
DEFINITELY it is a rat. unquestionably and without a doubt. unless it is iced to look like a skunk. I loved our martin family production!
LOL - Martins always crack me up. Love all of you guys
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