Candy Cane Cookies

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With peppermint extract and red food coloring, your kids can turn this simple dough into edible ornaments for the tree.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. peppermint extract

• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• Red food coloring

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and beat well. Stir in the peppermint and vanilla extracts. Gradually mix in the flour.
2. Divide the dough in half. Color one half with red food coloring and leave the other half plain. Roll out a tablespoon of red dough and a tablespoon of plain until they are each 6 to 8 inches long. Twist them into a candy cane, pinching the ends. Repeat.
3. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 8 to 10 minutes, or until set but not brown.
   Makes about 25.

Candy Garland

Here is a cute and inexpensive garland for your classroom tree! 

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The anticipation is truly sweet with this candy chain. And it's so easy to make, your kids can prepare one for every member of the family.

Materials

• Wrapped candies (we like striped starlight mints)

• Ribbon (red or green)

Instructions

1. Take two of the wrapped candies and using ribbon, tie a twisted plastic end of one to an end of the second mint. Continue until your chain has enough candies for your countdown.
2. Hang your garlands from the mantel or from doorknobs. Each day, untie and eat one piece of candy.

Tepee Treats

Historically, an Indian tepee was made from a cone of long poles and a hide covering that appeared shiny white until the hearth fire cured it. Construct a village of similarly handsome -- though edible -- tepees with this food craft.

Ingredients

• Sugar cones
• Confectioners' sugar
• Unsalted butter
• Vanilla extract

• Cake-decorating icing
• Decorative candies
• Toothpicks

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl with an electric beater set at low speed, mix 2 cups of sifted confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cup of softened, unsalted butter, and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract until smooth and spreadable. Stir in a bit of milk, if needed.
2. Use the icing to lightly frost eight ice cream sugar cones, then place them in the freezer for a few minutes until the icing hardens.
3. Now use tubes of cake-decorating icing to draw linear patterns and images and glue on decorative candies. For lodgepoles, insert toothpicks into the tip of each cone.

This recipe is from familyfun.com. 

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Marshmallow Tinkertoys

This article is at www.parents.com.  Please view the website for more great ideas.

A bag of marshmallows and some thin pretzel sticks are all you need to build the perfect puffy pal, a 3-D house, or tepee. Your child simply skewers the marshmallows with the sticks to create his own masterpiece. Add to the fun by placing toy pigs or other animals in the house and challenging your child to be the big bad wolf and blow it down.

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Star-Studded Leis

These star-studded leis are an easy and fun idea from www.familyfun.com. They are a festive way to show your patriotic spirit.

Materials

• Craft foam
• Sharpened pencil

• Elastic cording
• Red-and-white striped straws or drink stirrers

Instructions

1. Cut out craft foam stars and use a shapened pencil to poke a hole in the middle of each one.
   
2. String them onto a length of elastic cording, alternating the stars with sections of straw or drink stirrer. Knot and wear.

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Earth Day Snack

When making rice krispie treats, split the marshmallow/butter mixture into two bowls.  Add a few drops of blue to one bowl and green to the other.  Mix well.  Add more food coloring if needed.  Add the rice krispies to the mixtures and let sit for a few minutes to cool a bit.  Then form "earth" in your hands by making a ball with some of the blue and some of the green.

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