Grinch Heart Pudding Cookies - No Bake

Grinch Heart Pudding Cookies

What you need:

1. Keebler Shortbread Cookies

2. Pistachio Pudding Mix (Instant)

3. Whole Milk

4. Candy Hearts

How to:

1. Make pudding using only 1 1/4 cup milk. Whip till firm. 

2. Use small scoop to place pudding on shortbread cookie

3. Place heart in center of cookie!

4. Refrigerate or serve immediately. 

Easy, Cute, Fun

Photo Credit

Inspired by these awesome Grinch cookies seen Here at Katrina's Kitchen

Merry Christmas!

DIY Holiday Snowman Beanbag Toss Game + Christmas Class Party Ideas

DIY Snowman Beanbag Toss

Actually our beanbags were 
marshmallows and looked

a little like this:

Image from Kraft Website

Supplies:

2 Large White Canvas Boards 

Scissors

Orange, Black and Pink Paint or Sharpies

How To:

We used various objects to trace the eyes, hole in center as well as for the cheeks. 

We also used a dinner plate to help guide his cheerful smile. 

I did outline him in pencil before we got started. 

It was easy to cut the center hole. I just punched

through the center of the circle and 

easily worked my way around. 

We did use a black sharpie on his mouth

rather than paint and I am glad we did. 

Easy and Fun.

You can attach some wood blocks with

glue to the back if you want to keep it propped up however, they work great just propped up with books!

This is one of the games Sophia's class

will be playing at their Christmas party. 

Here are some other fun games we will play:

1. Stack red & green solo cups into a

Christmas tree - relay game

2. Toss little stuffed elves into large 

Christmas bags  - relay game

3. "Hot Santa" (aka Hot Potato) - toss a stuffed Santa around to music and when the music stops the one who has the Santa is OUT!

4. Draw a Reindeer - Topsy Turvy - in this fun and easy game the kids place paper plates on their head and then try to draw a Reindeer face or you can have them choose something else, maybe a Snowman?

5. Christmas Pictionary - have the kids try to draw out scenes to classic Christmas songs or items from the holidays! This is always a hit!

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No Bake Iced Oatmeal Snowman Cookies

No Bake Iced Oatmeal

Snowman Cookies

Looking for another quick and

easy edible craft for the Holidays?

Want to wow your friends and neighbors
with your cute decorating skills in NO time? 

Read on...

You will need:
Package of Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Wilton Snowman Decoration Kit
Clear Corn Syrup
Toothpicks

All you have to do is place the 
Snowman kit decorations on the 
iced oatmeal cookies with a toothpick
and a small amount of corn syrup! EASY!
I used the left over orange royal icing from our
Snowman Nose Cookies in a Jar.

If you can't find the Snowman decoration kit
you could easily use Mini M&Ms in brown for 
the eyes and mouth as well as an orange tic tac for
the nose. A fruit roll up cut in strips would make a
 great scarf and there you go! POOF! Cuteness.

Hope you like it!
Thanks

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Target Store Christmas Scavenger Hunt + Christmas Lights I Spy Links!

Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Friday, I took Sophia and a few friends

out for dinner and to look at Christmas lights. 

They had a BLAST!

We started out at Target for the girls to pick out an item for Toys for Tots. 

They were also surprised to find out that I created a Target Store Christmas Scavenger Hunt!

Just Copy and Paste into Word Document or email me for image. 

Rules:

1. No running and/or screaming :)

2. Be polite

3. Must take photo with item - "Christmas Selfie"

4. Alternate who is in the picture each time. 

5. Have FUN!

6. On your mark......get set..........GO!

I gave them about 30 minutes & set the timer on Sophia's phone. It was a blast to watch them, they did a great job and had a lot of fun! 

OFF THEY GO!!

Next, we went around the cities looking at the best holiday light displays. I found some great ideas for Christmas light scavenger hunts on Pinterest and included the links here below:

The Taylor House

Link to Layers of Learning and Download

There are TONS on Pinterest as well!

I thought maybe as 5th graders, they might be "too cool" for something like this, but honestly it was a great time! We sang songs, drank hot chocolate and made some great memories. 

Amazing Synchronized Light Show - Clearwater, MN Lights

Great Synchronized Lights in Eden Prairie, MN

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Snowman Nose Cookies in a Jar

Snowman Noses 

Cookies in a Jar!!

 We were inspired Disney's Olaf and the 

scene where he loses his NOSE:

And going back through my past
posts one of the most popular of ALL time
were my GRINCH PILLS in a jar!

LINK TO POST CLICK HERE

So we merged the idea!

In an effort to keep things

fast & easy, I used store bought

mini round sugar cookies and I

cut them with a sharp knife into 
little triangle shapes. 

These cookies would work great!

We then used Betty Crocker cookie icing

in white and colored some orange.

Photo Credit: WalMart

It worked great!
~EASY ~

Using a Wilton tip #2, we piped

out the noses and covered them 

with some orange sugar to add sparkle!

We decided to add a cute

Snowman cookie face 

at the top of jar!

The cookie face was made with the
same Betty Crocker Icing in White. 
The nose was made from the orange icing
left over from making all the little noses.
Once dry, we added the eyes and mouth with an Americolor Edible food writer in black. 

You could easily add a orange tic tac for the nose
and food coloring applied with a toothpick. 

The link to the printable we

used can be found by clicking 

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Hope you like this fun idea!

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Hostess Ho Ho Reindeer - EASY! NO BAKE!

Hostess Ho Ho Reindeer Treats!

Here is what we used:

Hostess Ho Ho's

 Reindeer Cupcake Decorating Kit from Wilton

Small Sugar Google Eyes from Wilton

Red Sixlet's for Nose

Our Imagination!

We did use a bit of Edible Gold Glitter

spray on the girl's antlers for added

SPARKLE!

If you can't find the Wilton Kit, you can use the 

following items for your reindeer face:

*Pretzels for Antlers

*Mini marshmallows cut in half for eyes

*Food coloring can be applied to mini marshmallow with 

toothpick to get eye color in center of marshmallow

*Red M&M for nose

These are really so easy and fun. We whipped 

up a whole box of these and the clean up was 

a BREEZE! I love NO BAKE items for those

busy working days when we want to make

a fun treat but time is limited. 

Anyone can do this, and if you make these

we would LOVE to hear from you!

Please Pin & Share!!

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Sophia & Mom 

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Treats from Thanksgivings Past!

Turkey Pudding Treats

LINK HERE! 

Pumpkin Pie Vodka Shots

LINK HERE

Tepee Cupcakes

LINK HERE

Cornucopia & Turkey Cookies

LINK HERE

Color Your Own Thanksgiving Cupcake Collar

Color Your Own Cupcake Collar

Visit the Links Below Each Picture!

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Frosted Graham Cracker Turkey Treats!

Frosted Graham Cracker 
Turkey Treats! 

From Top Left: Louis (The Leader), Top Right: Bob (The Jock)
Then there is Jeff.......

Thanks to Honey Maid Grahams

for another EASY, NO BAKE, 

fun treat you can whip up with your

kiddo's with little mess and lots of fun!

Meet JEFF the Misfit Turkey of them ALL!

Here is what you need:

*Honey Maid Grahams

*Canned Chocolate Frosting

*Edible Eyes~We Used Large 

*Colored Fondant 

(HINT: if you don't have or want to use fondant,

 just use a Starburst in orange or red and mold to shape.
Also, if you don't have goggle eyes, use a marshmallow and black edible food writer or food coloring placed on with a toothpick!! IMPROVISE!!)

Instructions:

*Frost Your Grahams

*Place On The Silly Eyes

*Shape and Place the Beak & Gobble

EASY!

FUN!

TASTY!

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Sophia and Mom

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RICE KRISPIE TURKEY POPS!

RICE KRISPIE TURKEY POPS!

Hello! 

Welcome to the first post of 

Sophia and Mom's new blog segments. 

In this series we will feature the following fun things

written and created by Mom and Sophia.

*Fun Edible Crafts

*Inspirational Quotes and Stories

*Fun Memories

Tonight we made Rice Krispie Turkey Pops!

The idea was taken from the blog Hungry Happenings

We LOVE that blog for fun edible craft ideas. 

We modified this by using Marshmallows cut in half for the eyes and molding Starbursts for the beak and gobble. 

A black edible food writer was used for his eye!

A helpful hint in molding the beak and gobble is to microwave the Starburst for about 5 seconds to soften the candy. EASY!

For the step by step instructions please

go to Hungry Happenings and tell her we sent you!

Link can be found HERE!

Hope you try these out! They taste GREAT! 

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Sophia & Mom

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No Bake Taco Sugar Cookies! CUTE!

No Bake Taco Sugar Cookies

How CUTE!

Made these quick and fun

treats for a "Mexican Night"

get together with good friends. 

Very excited for the kids

to see and eat these. 

Thanks to Party Pinching

for the great idea. 

Instructions can be found HERE

Cookie Dough Spring Pretzel Bites

I continue to be "addicted" with a new 

blog I found, Sally's Baking Addiction

I really like her easy to follow instructions

and wide range of fun treats. 

I have never made a treat using safe

cookie dough and have wanted too for some time. 

Knowing Sophia Rose LOVES cookie dough

as all the motivation I needed to put these together.

They were VERY easy and really oh so yummy. 

Sophia was able to help with all the steps which

really made this a great project. 

I liked the fact it was no-bake!

They are very rich but leave you with that,

"I want just one more....." feeling! HA. 

To find the easy recipe click HERE.

I added some pretty sprinkles in honor of 

Spring trying to break through. 

Have a great week! 

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Cake Batter Oreo Cookies

Hello long lost blogland friends!

I got the bug to bake this week.

 It was a welcomed feeling. 

I found these pretty and yummy sounding

cookies at Sally's Baking Addiction. 

The link to the recipe can be found HERE

Sophia & I made these and they were 

AWESOME in every single way. 

Oreo Cake Batter Cookies

The sprinkles in the cookies made them just

that much more fun and pretty too. 

I highly suggest you make these surprisingly

easy & tasty cookies this weekend! 

You won't regret it.

Sweet Pea Baby Shower Cupcakes

Sweet Pea Baby Shower Cupcakes

I haven't posted for a long time and thought these were worth sharing. I honestly can't recall if I ever posted these last year when I made them but even if I did, they are worth the repeat - so cute! 

These were so much fun to make!

Have a great Friday!