Making a giant jolly rancher - any tips?

[RStar]

Wrap the teacher in colored cello and slap Jlooy Roger on her forhead!

Just kidding....

What I have done (and got the idea from Disneyland in the Small World Holiday is to take an empty clear plastic food take-out container and cover it clear colored cello (it comes in different colors- don't try to color it, it's not that easy). The trick will be to find something the right deminsions. Smart and Final sells lots of different sizes to the food industry. And Micheals has the clear colored cellophane.

You can copy artwork on a copy machine, enlarging it and printing it on clear acetate (like for overhead projectors).

Good luck!

[Tref]

Originally Posted by RStar

... Jlooy Roger ...

You're 0 for 2 on that one.

[flippyshark]

I hate to pirate this thread, but as long as candy enlargement ideas are being tossed around, I have need of creating giant jellybeans. (long story) So, if anyone has any thoughts on how they would do this (like the original poster, I would want to have a translucent quality, ideally) feel free to suggest away. (It would be awesome if someone happened to know where pre-fabricated giant jellybeans might be available.)

So that I'm not being too criminal, I'll second RStar's food take-out plastic idea - lightweight is always a good thing. And colored celo wrap seems like a fine idea.

[tracilicious]

How bout a foam block?

[€uroMeinke]

It took me awhile to realize you guys were talking about representations of said candies, and not making super-sized versions there-of. I'm not sure if I am more relieved or disappointed.

[tracilicious]

Foam might be tasty if you add enough sugar. Isn't that how they make twinkies?

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Tref

You're 0 for 2 on that one.

That's what I get for not proofing before I hit submit!

Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher

There, I knew I could do it!

Ok, as far as a giant jelly bean, thats harder due to the shape....

I have no ideas on that one. Sorry.

[€uroMeinke]

How about a giant Gummy Bear

[Betty]

We made it out of plaster of perris thinking that would be cost effective and we'd be able to sand it down to the exact size needed. Exact size is important with this. It needs to be 5 x's as big - or 10 x's... not 6.729 x's.

We've discovered it's not as easy to shape as I would have hoped. It was likened to sidewalk chalk but it's not quite that easy.

I enlarged the logo in photoshop and she's tracing it to a piece of clear plastic drop cloth and using opaque pens to color it in.

We really didn't think this through well when selecting something with a clear wrapper. The cost of supplies in this has been quite a bit more then I'm comfortable with.

Have considered having her make something different and just telling the teacher that's the way it is. After all - the idea is to use math accomplish this and not a bunch of money and art skills. Right???

Too late now though.

Oh well.

I liked the idea of the cellophane in a color but due to having to make this a very specific size, we needed to make this hard.

If I had to do it again, I think I might make it out of paper mache - a stuffed paper bag covered in it then paint that a watermelony color and then cover that with a tightly wrapped cellophane to give it a little depth. (?) Then wrapped that in larger clear cellophane.

For a jelly belly, I think I would try and do a little color variation with paint. They are so smooth and pretty sturdy and not as glassy as a jolly wrancher.

[Kevy Baby]

First, find a really big rancher. Then, make him happy.