Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Writers share then work and their cake-decorating creativity

GMS Writers Express members have been bringing work to each meeting to share and critique. It's been an impressively productive school year so far for these young writers. To celebrate their accomplishments, they each received a recently published book to read at the December 12 meeting.

A group with creativity that knows no bounds isn't limited to crafting stories with words. They can also do that through cake decorating. They explored their visual art skills with a decorating lesson at the conclusion the last meeting for 2013. Here's what they did.

 Step 1: Unwrap your cake then ice it with white icing. Get more icing on the cake than in your mouth.

Step 2: Mix a color into white icing then put it into the pastry bag. Again, don't eat it before it gets on the cake.
 

Step 3: Experiment with various tip styles and colors to see what you can do. Don't experiment by squeezing the icing directly into your mouth to see if the different colors have varying flavors.


Step 4: Celebrate your creation! Now you can eat the icing you didn't use, plus the entire cake.
Surely all this celebratory sugar will fuel even more creativity in 2014. The group is looking forward to more writing and to a field trip to the KET studios next year.



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