Candy Sushi

During the last two weeks at school, we've been doing an author study on Rosemary Wells. She writes Max and Ruby stories, Rosie's Walk, Noisy Nora, etc. Some of you parents out there may know the Max and Ruby stories from Nick Jr.


At the end of each author study, we try to do some sort of culminating activity- something really fun to wrap up what we did with the students. Today, we made candy sushi! We read the book Yoko which is about a little girl whose mother made her sushi to take to school for lunch. Other students made fun of her different food and teased her until Yoko's teacher came up with an idea for International Day and the students all tried different foods. We talked about teasing, what it felt like when someone teased us and the importance of trying new foods.

To my surprise, many of my students eat sushi on a somewhat regular basis. Of course, I do need to keep in mind that they are 5 and you can only believe half of what they say! :)

One of my teammates found a recipe for candy sushi and I decided to give it a try. I made the rice crispy treats last night and brought them in today so all we needed to do was assemble and roll the "sushi."

Rice crispy treats, gummy worms, swedish fish, and fruit roll-ups

Put the fruit roll-up on a greased piece of wax paper

Spread the rice crispy treats on the fruit roll up

Put the gummy worm or swedish fish onto the "rice"

Begin to roll

And, roll

Cut

Viola!  Candy sushi!

They loved it!