I simply don't understand unpacking and packing **kwargs.

You're doing a few things wrong

• The two arguments should be one. Also, NOT in key, value format like how you have it. The instruction says "A list of dictionaries". Meaning one singular list as your argument
• For loop should iterate through the singular list of dictionaries. Meaning ONE list with many dictionaries.
• For each dictionary in dictionaries, unpack the singular dictionary inside of the .format using the ** operator
• Do not call your function at the end. Simply define it. Teamtreehouse is going to call your function to test it.

I suggest you give it a try to solve it using the tips I gave above. If you're still stuck, look at my code below. I suggest reading this which a great article that illustrates in simple terms how to use *args **kwargs.

My code:

def string_factory(dictionaries):
    new_list = []
    template = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
    for dictionary in dictionaries:
            new_list.append(template.format(**dictionary))    

    return new_list

One liner:

def string_factory(dictionaries):
    template = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
    return [template.format(**dict) for dict in dictionaries]

When the challenge asks you to create a function "that accepts a list of dictionaries as an argument", it's not expecting you to create the list or call the function yourself. You only need to write the function that will work with such a list, and when you submit it, the challenge will call your function and provide the list for it to work on.

The function shown here takes two arguments named "name" and "food", but it should take a list of dictionaries instead (which will be a single argument). The actual name of the list can be anything you like.