Thanksgiving Candy

So Simple

Here is an easy treat for the kids to help make.

What You'll Need:

-Oven

-Cookie Sheet

-Aluminum Foil

-Life Saver Hard Candy

-Green Fruit Leather

The How To:

-First heat the oven to 250.

-Then line your cookie sheet with aluminum foil.

-To make the Indian Corn, you need to break up several different colors of Life Savers.

-Then, make a pile of the pieces on the cookie sheet and shape them into a corn shape.

-Next put them it in the oven for 8-10 minutes.

-Take them out and let it cool.

- When it is cool, peel the aluminum foil off the bottom of the corn.

-Then cut 2 pieces off of your fruit leather to look like corn leaves/husks and place them on your corn.

Jellybean pumpkins

Food Friday

A yummy and cute decoration.

What You'll Need:

- Orange netting or Tulle

- Scissors

- Orange jellybeans

- Green Pipe cleaners

- Different sized bowls to trace

- Marker

The How To:

-First use the marker to trace the bowl onto the orange tulle. My bowls were approximately 5 inches and the other one 8 inches in diameter.

- Then cut out the circles.

- Put some jellybeans on to the tulle and then pull the edges of the tulle up around the jelly beans (so it is like they are in a bag)

- Next wrap the pipe cleaner around the edges of the top of your tulle 'bag.'

-Then, if you wanted to, you can take another pipe cleaner and wrap it around a pen or pencil to make a twirly tendril to come off the top of your pumpkin.

- After you wrap the pipe cleaner around the pencil, slide it off and wrap part of it around the stem of your pumpkin. Leave the other part of the twirl to stick off to the side of the stem.

These make a cute (and tasty) centerpiece for the kids table at Thanksgiving or just a fun treat to put in their lunchboxes.

Fall Leaf Cinnamon Crisps

What you'll need:
-Leaf Cookie Cutters (Metal cookie cutters work best)
-Flour Tortillas
-1 tsp. Cinnamon
-2 Tbs. Sugar
-6 Tbs. Butter (Melted)

The how to:
-Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

-Cut leaf shapes out of the flour tortillas using leaf shaped cookie cutters. (I found that metal cookie cutters cut work best.)

-Melt the 6 Tbs. butter in a bowl and mix the 1 tsp. cinnamon and 2 Tbs. sugar in another bowl.

-Brush the tortilla leaves with butter and then dip them in the cinnamon sugar mixture.

-Lay them on a cookie sheet (Not overlapping) and bake in the oven for 4-6 minutes or until crisp.

These sweet crisps are great with some sliced strawberries or fruit salsa on top!

A Fun Edible Picture

Friday Food

Here is a fun way to serve up lunch.

My youngest loved her lunch being served as a fun edible picture.

What you'll need:

-Sandwhich

-Peas

-Pretzel stick

-Apple

-Fruit Roll-up

-Gel frosting (for the birds)

The How to:

-First place the pretzel stick on the plate. I had to break mine in half because it was too long.

-Then dice up the apple and place the diced pieces around the pretzel stick to make it look like a tree.

-Next cut your bread into the shape of a house (before you make your sandwhich). Then make your child's favorite sandwhich. Save some of the crust for the roof of the house. Then place it on your plate.

- Then cut off a piece of the fruit roll-up to use as a door on the house.

-Scatter the peas around the bottom of the plate...around the bas of the tree and the house so it will look like grass.

-Finally, use the gel frosting to draw some bird flying in the sky.

Then serve it to your kids and watch them enjoy eating it!