Lessons in Candy

One lesson that we encountered in class was a lesson based on language and its possible roles in conveying a message through a piece of art. The lesson dealt with taking song lyrics and re-interpreting them by creating an image entirely out of candy.
Needless to say, I walked out of class with a massive sugar high that had me bopping down the hallway on my way to painting class. The lesson itself was very fun and enjoyable but I don't necessarily think that I would execute or attempt to execute this in a school type setting. In my opinion there are waaaaay to many variable to take into consideration for a lesson like this. To start, using candy seems like it could go horribly wrong in a high school setting. As Aaron had stated, within 5 minutes the room full of 20 somethings all had their mouth packed full of candy. For younger students, I imagine that this would be the case tenfold. Unless specifically told not to do so, I could see an entire class just completely disregarding what they should be doing and scarfing down pound after pound of sugar.
The next aspect of the lesson that I was a bit unsure of dealt with the songs and the material choice itself. We were all given songs by The Beatles and then told to create an image based off of a lyric in the song. Why The Beatles? I'm not completely sure. Although it was stated during the feedback that they wanted something appropriate and easily relate-able, I did not want to be the person that stood up and said, but I really don't know a lot of music by The Beatles other than what was in the movie Across The Universe. For the most part, any songs outside of that movie have little to no meaning to me.
Lastly the material choice was a bit disconnected. it was stated a lot and I hate it but I have to agree, what did candy have to do with this lesson? I mean, I get the whole obscure medium thing we had going on but candy was not only obscure but a distraction. I feel that overall, if students wee told to bring in mind a song that meant a lot to them that was appropriate for school, then we could have had more of a connection to the songs in the first place. After that the array of materials could have been vast and included many different types of obscure media, not just the one. The materials could also be all related to music in some way or form to at least establish connection between the idea of music and language and different ways to portray that.