Make Miniature S'mores

Our finished s'mores look good enough to eat!

       You can make s'mores any size for any doll you like. The word S'more is a contraction of the phrase "some more". One early published recipe for a s'more is found in a book of recipes published by the Campfire Marshmallows company in the 1920s, where it was called a "Graham Cracker Sandwich". The text indicates that the treat was already popular with both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. In 1927, a recipe for "Some More" was published in Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.

       To make s'mores like ours you will need: white cotton balls, tacky craft glue and white school glue, brown acrylic paint, cardboard, and sand paper.

A s'more is a campfire treat popular in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, consisting of a 
marshmallow and a layer of chocolate placed between two pieces of graham cracker or cookie.

       Cut cardboard to the size you would like your s'more to be. If you are making one of these yummy pretend treats for your dolls, measure the cardboard cut out the fit neatly in her palm. If you are making a s'more SWAP, keep the size to approximately less than 1"x 2".

       Now shape your marshmallows to fit snuggly between the cardboard graham crackers. Roll out the white cotton ball, squeeze a bit of white school glue into it and shape the cotton between your finger tips. This is the messy part but it is also fun to do!

       Glue the white cotton marshmallow to the lower piece of cardboard using tacky white glue, let the project dry for awhile, just until it stops slipping around on the cardboard.

       Now take your brown bottle of paint and squeeze out a portion onto the top of the marshmallow. Take the second cardboard graham cracker and press this onto the top of the paint so that it will drip down the sides of the white cotton and also adhere the top of the s'more. 

       After the s'more has dried, glue on the sandpaper to the outer surfaces of the cardboard crackers. Trim all the edges and draw on a dot or two to create the dimples in your cracker surfaces.