Bake Alphabet Cookies
This cookie dough handles like modeling clay, but it also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills, to show him where to sit for dinner, or just to have an unexpected treat.
Make Chocolate Gelt for Gifts or the Dreidel Game
Make your own gelt this Hanukkah to give as a gift to friends and family or to use to play the classic game of Dreidel.
Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!
Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails lowering the freezing point to chill another substance - in this case, ice cream!
Ice Cream Science
What is a liquid? What is a solid? What better way to experiment, then by turning one of your kid's favorite substances, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!
Bake Tree Ring Cookies
These fun cookies introduce kids to the concept of cross-sections. As they're learning, they'll also be practicing fine motor skills and making a yummy treat at the same time!
Bake Your Own Fortune Cookies
Give your child international cooking experience, as he makes his own fortune cookies. Made-for-them messages personalize these tasty treats for friends or family.
Make Chocolate Chip Shape Cookies
Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" this traditional recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.
Make a Cupcake Menorah
Bake your own Menorah with this fun cupcake idea.
Make Your Own Marshmallows
Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!
Make Frozen Chocolate-Dipped Bananas
On a hot summer night, trade the butterfat and sugar of ice cream for the sublime sweetness of a frozen chocolate-dipped banana.
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