There’s an easy joke in all of this about how a black man who falls in love with a white woman ends up doing crafts. Very easy joke. I’m not making the joke. I’m just saying it is out there… in reach.
I spent what I would argue is an obscene amount of money at the dollar store and even more obscene amounts filling the above receptacles in order to create out first (and last?) ever snack stadium. It felt like one of those things you reach for, execute, and later say, “remember that time when?” I will long remember that time when, because we had a really good time doing this together. Moreover, it looked really cool IMHO.
The construction ended up being a different style than planned. We used metal risers and placed pans over them and walled them in with foam board in order to create a second level effect. The stadium corners were a mystery we needed to solve as well. We went for clear plastic containers set on a riser with a 3rd container (where possible) forming a triangle that both filled the space and offered a colorful option once filled with chips.
We used 9 different types of chips (I told you the grocery end was obscene) along with cookies, the cake field, m&m’s and a wire basket filled with candy boxes. Another dollar store container filled with Madelines rounded out the uncoooked goods portion of the snack stadium. From that point it was all about appetizers including two different styles of chicken filling the end zone seats, southwestern egg rolls and more.
Lady Talis came up with the plan to to fill the sidelines with leafy green lettuce to give it that rich and natural feel. In front of each endzone is a dip–one is a salsa and the other a variation of french onion. And yes, we dropped in a screen in a homage to the screenshot model I used below:
Yep, ours actually worked and played stuff during the game. It felt pretty cool to have all of that working and build something that epic to say we did that one time. I don’t know I have the desire to do it again, but I definitely feel these projects. It is cool and fun to work with the Lady Talis to create something we both can enjoy and the family can enjoy as well.