{Recipe} 12 Dozen Chocolate Chip Cookies

recipe chocolate chip cookie printable

We love homemade Christmas gifts and this recipe for chocolate chip cookies.  Every year we try to make a plate of cookies for neighbors. This year we created a cookie tub – made from the same spread container we used to help make our batch.  Thank you Country Crock for inspiring this activity and for [...]

Fudge, Fudge, Fudge!! {Yummy}

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Just the word fudge makes me hyperventilate: fudge, fudge, fudge! We love chocolate at Kids Activities Blog and fudge is the chocolate of all chocolates! Fudge Fudge Fudge My family loves sweets during the holidays.(Actually we love them all year around! ) There are certain sweets that we made only once a year during the [...]

{Kid-Made} Chocolate Factory

chocolate factory

It’s a kid chocolate factory day!  This morning we had a kid-made fudgy batch of fudge.  There isn’t a recipe more loved at Kids Activities Blog than one that involves chocolate so let’s bring it on! I’ve heard it said that some people don’t have a sweet tooth, but they’re certainly not members of my [...]

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

homemade peanut butter cups

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups I love to cook and bake as much as possible, and I love that Rory enjoys doing it with me!  The only problem… is that it’s hard to bake with a toddler. I have quickly learned that Rory is just like her mom and her aunts; she loves to pick at [...]

Easy Snack/Dessert for Kids

blueberry and banana smoothie

This is hands down my kids favorite snack, dessert or meal drink. Mom, can you make us a smoothie? YES! This is what I do… Basic Fruit and Yogurt Shake Recipe 1 cup of vanilla yogurt 1/2 cup of milk {may need more if the yogurt is thick} 3 bananas 1/2 – 1 cup of [...]

Let’s Make a Fruit Mural

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Drawing and painting pictures is something that is ongoing at my house.  There is art on every table in various stages of genius. I thought it would be fun to harness that creativity with a new medium. Fruit! We created cookie sheet size edible works of art.  They were as delicious as they were fun [...]

Hardtack Recipe

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As part of our American History lesson a few weeks ago, we visited the Texas Civil War Museum.  One of the things that impressed my kids more than anything was that there were hardtack {and sea biscuits} in the display cases FROM THE CIVIL WAR. Yes, this food was so non-perishable that it has lasted [...]

Rainbow Cookies – Fun Painting our Food

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Eating cookies is yummy and painting is fun – last week we combined two of our favorite things with two of our favorite people!   I like simple easy recipes!  We adapted this recipe from the back of a Duncan Hines Cake box (one we found when making our rainbow cupcakes a few weeks ago).   These [...]