GIANT CARDBOARD Hershey's Cookies 'n' Cream CANDY Bar

So, Hershey's chocolate. One of the most popular chocolate brands in the world, producing one of the best candy bars on earth (or at least my favorite), the Hershey's Cookies 'n' Cream candy bar. So, when choosing a candy to make life sized for the Big and Small Instructables competition, I knew the Cookies 'n' Cream Hershey bar was the obvious way to go. So please, join me in making this four foot tall jumbo treat, made with every detail I could find on the original Hershey's Cookies and Cream candy bar design, crafted completely out of carboard paper, paint, and other things you can find laying around your house.

For this Instructable, you will need the following:

• Cardboard (lots of it) - When making something like a giant candy bar, you're obviously going to need a lot of cardboard. For this build, I recommend using thick, double corrugated, cardboard.
• Blue paint (cobalt) - For the edges of the candy bar. The paint doesn't have to be as specific as cobalt, but that is the exact color used on the original wrapper.
• White (Ivory) paint - This is to paint the actual bar that is going to be inside the wrapper. I added "Ivory" to the name, but feel free to use white paint if you want to, I just didn't want my bar to the same color as my wrapper.
• Role of Paper - To make the wrapper for the candy bar (and for other details).
• Colored Pencils - To color the wrapper. The specific ones you will need are tan, sky blue, brown, and black colors.
• Scissors and Knife (boxcutter and precision) - The boxcutter and scissors for cutting the bigger pieces of the build, the precision for the smaller details.
• Black Paint - This is to make the chocolate chips. You don't need as much of this paint as you do the ivory paint.
• Hot glue - To glue things.
• Duct tape - To tape things in place before gluing.
• Pencil - For sketching.
• Ruler - For sketching and measuring.

To start out the project, get two very large sheets of cardboard. Then, cut them both out into 42 by 17 inch sheets.

For this step, I don't recommend using scissors to cut the cardboard. Because the cardboard I'm using is thick, this is because using scissors will make the edges of the cardboard become choppy and and jagged. Instead, use a precision knife to make the incision into the cardboard, but do not cut all the ay through. Next, use the box cutter knife to saw through the cardboard, this time cutting the cardboard all the way through.

Now, get the 2 sheets of cardboard together. There are many ways to do this, but this is the way I found would probably be the easiest.

First, place one sheet on top of the other to make sure they are lined up and flush with each other. If they aren't, cut and edit any imperfections to make the edges of each sheet line up correctly with each other.

Next, duct tape the sheets onto each other. To do this, make 4 of the duct tape shape as seen in the picture. Then, place each duct tape in each corner of one of your sheets of cardboard. Then, place the second sheet of cardboard on top of the first sheet, making sure to a line them properly. The 2 sheets should be held together by the 4 pieces of duct tape in the corners of the first sheet.

After that, (if your 2 pieces of cardboard aren't already secure enough) glue the sheets of cardboard together using hot glue, or any other strong glue. Once the 2 sheet are securely held together, you are done with the base of the candy bar.

Ok, its time to make the pip of the Hershey's bar. If you didn't know, the pips are the little squares that you can break a candy bar into to make it easier to eat.

To start out, find a way to get the pip rectangle onto carboard. If you followed the measurements I added for making the base of the bar, you should know that the pips have a size measurement of 10 1/4 and 5 1/4 inches. Next, draw the rectangle on cardboard (using the measurements given). Then cut it out. You need 12 pips in all, so repeat this prosses eleven more times. Like I said, you will need a lot of carboard for this protect, so make sure you have enough before you start making the pips.

Once you have that rectangle, its time to make the indent that is in the middle of the the rectangle.

First, take one of your pips and draw a smaller rectangle inside of it, about half an inch smaller (in width and length) than the actual pip. You can look at the photo for reference.

Once you have done that, cut out the smaller rectangle. When your done cutting, you will be left with a cut-out of the smaller rectangle, and a frame to go along with it. Do this with repeat this process with the 11 more pips that you have.

Now, you should have 12 cardboard rectangles, with a frame to go along with each one.

To make the intend, the thickness of the middle rectangle has to be less thick than it's frame. There are many different ways to do this. You can peel the first layer of corrugated cardboard of using your fingers or other materials (this is the option I went with; as seen in the photo). You can also make a another middle rectangle using single corrugated cardboard, this way your cardboard middle-piece is still less thick than your cardboard outer-frame.

One you have all your cardboard rectangles fixed into your cardboard frames, with the cardboard rectangles being less thick than the cardboard frames, it is time to glue them onto your 42 by 17 inch cardboard sheet. glue them on as you see in the picture on the next step. Make sure they are an even amount of space apart from each other, including on the edges.

Ahh, painting. One of the most fun parts of crafting.

For this step, you will need your ivory (white) paint. As you can probably tell by now, I'm only doing the candy bar design on one side of the cardboard sheet, so the other side is going to be plain cardboard. If you want to do the other side, feel free to. All you have to do it repeat steps 1 through three on the other side of the cardboard.

Use the Ivory paint to plaint allover the front of the cardboard. if you want, you can add the little hints of faded black onto the cardboard like I did in the photo (this is the area where the paint seems to be darker than the rest). I did this by adding extra black spots to my project, then painting over the black dots with a light coat of ivory. This is to make the bar look like it has chocolate chips submerged inside of it.

After you've done all of this, and you've let your project dry, you can move on to the next step.

That's right, we're going as far as making the wrapper of the candy bar.

First, cut out a large sheet of your role of paper. For me (and if you followed my measurements for everything else) I cut mine to be 37 by 47 1/2 in in size. After you cut out the paper, wrap it around the candy bar as you see in the photo, and mark measurements to show how the paper wraps around the bar. One you have the measurements, tape the paper of the back, so that the wrapper is securely on the bar, so that the wrapper is not showing on either end of the wrapper Keep it like this for now, but you can add "velcro" later if you want.. Then, flatten down the edges of the wrapper as seen in the photo.

After that, its time to actually design the wrapper. To do this, I drew a quick sketch of where I wanted everything to be on my wrapper (as seen in the photo). I followed a reference when doing this, so I had a good idea of what everything should look like. The components from the actual wrapper that I included in my wrapper were:

• The Hershey's logo.
• The "date of establishment writing on the side of the big "H".
• The "cookies and creme" under the Hershey's logo.
• The cookies and the Hershey's bar piece on the right side of the wrapper.
• The calorie labeling on the bottom left corner of the wrapper.

Obviously, I left a lot of details out of this wrapper design. I choose to do this for the sake of simplicity of this Instructable, but if you want, you can add more details to your wrapper, because there are a few that I left out.

Once you have created a sketch of your wrapper design, start to color. For this, you can use paint, colored pencils, or even crayons. because it was easier, I used colored pencils.

For the Hershey's logo and the chocolate cookie on the side, I mixed a black and a brown colored pencil together to make a really, really, really, dark brown. I did this because the color of the Hershey's bar is really dark maroon, but I didn't have a colored pencil this color.

I used the tan colored pencil to color the piece of cookies and cream chocolate on the side. When I was coloring the lines, I pressed my tan colored pencil hard to make the lines darker than the rest of the surfaces of the chocolate. I this doesn't make sense to you, please refer to the photo above.

I also used a blue colored pencil to color the blue "cookies and cream" text under the logo. Lucky enough, this color is actually very close to the cobalt color that I will use for the edge of the wrapper.

Speaking of cobalt, now it is time to paint the edges of the wrapper cobalt blue. After doing this, it is time to move on to the next step.

If you want, there are somethings that I did to my wrapper that you can to yours if you want:

• You can cut the little triangular rivets in the edges of the wrapper.
• You can add hook and loop fastener to your wrapper to make closing it around the candy bar easier.

Both of these options don't really need much instruction, you really can just look at the pictures above to figure out what to do.

However, for the hook and loop fastener pictures, I added the hook and loop fasteners on the back of the wrapper, on the part that I taped shut in the previous step (step 4).

Other than that, and once you have completed everything you need to, this Instructable is over. Thank you so much for making my second Instructable with me, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!!!