Week 8: Decorate Cookies

This past week my family got together for annual Grandparents Camp, which is a chance for all of the cousins to get together and do fun kid stuff together when we're not all overwhelmed with a special occasion like Christmas or New Years or a baptism or birthday. It's just an excuse to get together and do fun stuff, so everybody comes up with great entertainment ideas, so for the next few weeks I'm stealing everybody else's. I'm too worn out after this week anyway!

Ages 2, 5, and 6, all enthralled!

This is related to the cook with your kids, but even better, actually. My kid Chompy is absolutely interested in cookies, ALL OF THE TIME. So decorating cookies is a hit. The age range of kids decorating cookies was 18 months to 9 years, and everybody had a blast.

 I cannot take credit for this idea, this one comes from Auntie Bean, who made the cookies in advance and stored them in a plastic container to be available at all times. She also had the brilliant idea to make many different colors of icing and put it in clear squeeze bottles like these available from Amazon.

You can also buy them from Target, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, pretty much anywhere. They're pretty cheap, too. 

I'm not sure what kind of icing Bean put in these, but I know milk, powdered sugar and food coloring  mix together to make a good squeezable icing.

Those are some professional cookies!

Auntie Bean actually made amazingly delicious sugar cookies from scratch, but in case of a cookie emergency, you can also buy the ready made ones, or the dough you just have to pop in the oven like these.

Grandmother helps the littles

Cookies go well with milk!

Stinko watches his big cousin put on the finishing touches.

We decorated the heck out of these cookies ALL WEEK LONG! It's a great activity for a rainy day in Ohio, or a scorcher here in Phoenix, and they keep really well. Brilliant! Sprinkles are a bonus!

Special thanks to the rest of the Duck family for letting me use pictures of your absolutely beautiful kids!