[Sca-cooks] [SharcPit] Jello Fun Barbie

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I could wish more people would encourage kids to read as joyfully ;-)

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From: "johnna holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] [SharcPit] Jello Fun Barbie


> Details.... details... details...
> This was a March is Reading Month theme, so the entire Elementary school
> was involved. 400 students grades K-5th.
> We went with red Jell-o because quite frankly there wasn't enough blue
> Jell-o available in the region to do it. With red we could use
> strawberry, watermelon, cherry, black cherry, raspberry,etc. The
> students donated the majority of the Jell-o, a box at a time in most
> cases. They took great pleasure at arriving at school and showing Mrs.
> Nickel that not only were they reading but that they were donating.
> She'd make fuss and they loved it. Parents got involved big time too
> which helped. The PTO at the end chipped in $20 and I bought every box
> on sale at 5/$1.00. We ran out of Jell-O in Chelsea, so some parents
> were buying it in other towns and bringing it in. I signed up a
> volunteer force to make it. I packaged up boxes and gave bags of the
> Jell-O to moms with notes that read X number of boxes... use Y number of
> cups... makes   so many quarts or gallons. One box makes two cups, so
> you can do the math. Most made a gallon or two. One or two made as much
> as 3-4 gallons. Some of the classrooms also made up Jell-o in their
> classes. It was made in plastic buckets, plastic storage containers,
> rubbermaid toy chests... I made the rest between 22 and 23 gallons. And
> I boiled the water for mine. It took most of one day. We were lucky in
> that it was cold enough outside that it could be placed in a garage
> where it set up w/o refrigeration. One major problem is that 23 gallons
> of Jell-O weighs a lot and transporting it was a very funny experience.
> On the day of the jump it was hauled in and dumped in the tank. We used
> a stock watering tank to put the Jell-o in. Approximately 75 gallons...
> maybe 28-30 inches deep. She put a wet suit and actually fell backwards
> into it rather than jumping. It dyed her skin red. The school read 4200
> hours up from 2500 hours from the previous year. The next year we turned
> her into a root beer float.
>
> Johnna Holloway   Johnnae
>
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> > Despite all the jokes about this, I've wondered if anyone ever
> > created that much jello to play in.
> >
> > Is there a source for super sized boxes of jello? Or did you just
> > buy a whole lot of the regular boxes? I could probably look on a
> > package the next time I go to the grocery, but how many of those
> > boxes does it take to make 65 gallons of jello? Was this all one
> > color/flavor? Or was it a hodgepodge of different ones?
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