Xander has been reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus series (again and again and again). He has become a little obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology. To try to feed this interest, I suggested we try to build a Parthenon out of cookies. He liked the idea, but decided he'd rather build a Colosseum.
We started out by Googling some pictures of the Colosseum. I also found an illustration in our Encyclopedia of the Ancient World and dug out our toy Colosseum from his World Landmarks Toob. We also found a two episode documentary on the Colosseum on Amazon Video that we watched.
We used the Betty Crocker Gingerbread House Frosting recipe as our mortar and wafer cookies are our stones.
I had him start by trimming some down and start figuring out a layout before actually frosting them together. Then it was time to start building! He ended up cutting the wafers into thirds for supports and then using a whole wafer with the corners trimmed as the top of the arch.
He was pretty proud of his final creation. It was a little wonky looking, but I was impressed with how long it was able to hold his attention. He is not a kid who loves arts and crafts.
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