I can be creative

To fill his last general elective requirement for Civilization, Alan has been taking History of Creativity (part one). I can't say that it has been a particularly enjoyable class for Alan, but out of all the options, it was the one that required the least amount of memorizing and regurgitating historical dates and facts. The culminating event in the class was a final project with the instructions to "make something creative". No joking, that was pretty much the extent of the instructions. Since the class covered up to the year 1500A.D. Alan chose to create a replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza. As a medium, he chose rice crispy treats.

While I didn't have anything to do with the construction of the pyramid, I had everything to do with making batch after batch of rice crispy treats.

Elsie might have snuck a few treats to munch on. She actually stayed out of the way for most of the construction, but that was mostly because we did the majority of it while she was sleeping.

We used a lot of marshmallows and rice crispys......and butter.

The final pyramid in all it's rice crispy glory.

Alan and Elsie with his creation at the "Creativity Fair" where it was displayed.

The pyramids final figures are as follows:

Approximately a 1:454 scale model. Base is 20 inches for a perimeter of 60 inches. Height of about 12.7 inches which falls in line with the Egyptian perimeter to height ratio of 2 Pi.

9.06 lbs of rice crispy cereal, 8.25 lbs of miniature marshmallows, 2.16 lbs of butter for a total weight of nearly 20 lbs. It took 25 batches of rice crispy treats.

I wonder what we're going to come up with next semester when Alan has to take part 2...