21.12.10

cookies and crafts

     "The walls are tilting and the roof is falling off. Can I fix my house?" Heather got to fix it as she asked. Yesterday a friend shared that she hot glued her gingerbread house to make it beautiful. My kids like to eat it, so that wasn't an option. Assembling and decorating a gingerbread house has become a yearly tradition. Tonight the kids decorated it, and tomorrow they will break it apart and eat it with friends.

     Aren't these the cutest reindeer?

     The ones we tried that a friend made were peanut butter cookies. I couldn't find my favorite recipe for peanut butter cookies (someone threw away the empty butter Crisco can) so we tried something new- pudding cookies made with pudding and Bisquick. Cute, but not so tasty.

     We had fun making these snowman from hand prints on ornaments. One teacher I work with does this every year with her first grade students. I found instructions here.
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  1. Vickie12/21/2010

    I've seen the reindeer cookies before but forgot all about them. Looks like we can add "antlers" to basically any cookie recipe. Nothing special. I like that. What a fun idea for Christmas balls!!!! My dh still has his ball ornament they made in K or 1st grade too.

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  2. the Mcclanahan 712/21/2010

    I love the snowman ornaments. I think we will make some of those. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. SisterTipster12/21/2010

    Sooo cute~try the cake mix recipe...super easy and TASTES GOOD too~ Love the ornaments!~HUGS!

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  4. Jen U.12/21/2010

    We make those same reindeer cookies every year as our cookies for Santa. ;-) I LOVE the ornament idea! Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Catherine12/21/2010

    Oh, that's a lot of cuteness. Those ornaments are sooooo adorable.

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