Willie Wonka's Chanukah Projects

Every Chanukah, the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo features some hands-on project for children involving candy.  Last year Raphaela made a full sized mouse out of sugar dough - ears, whiskers, tail and everything - and it took her almost three weeks to finish eating it; she had decided the mouse was her friend and felt slightly guilty cutting him up piece by piece.

If you ask Raphaela about her candy mouse, she will still say, "He is in my stomach!"

This year the zoo had a chocolate workshop:

That sucker was gone before we got to the tiger habitat.