Color Picture

Each year parents are looking for ideas

for their children to make as

Holiday presents.

Is Mary the next Renoir?

Johnny- Degas?

Trent- Cezanne?

Piper is our next Monet.

For this project you will need:

COLORS

 CANVAS 

(3 for $5 at Hobby Lobby and 40% coupon)

IRON 

WAX PAPER

PENCIL SHARPNER(for shavings)

For this project you are going to use

shavings of the colors. 

We used 2 boxes of 64 colors.

Look how yummy the colors look!

Yes, it did take awhile to shave each color,

but well worth the time.

Plus it will keep your little ones 

quite and still

for a little bit of time.

Have your child draw a design on the canvas.

This is their project but try and stress a

BIG picture is better.

Sprinkle the color shavings on the design.

Try to cover the canvas with colors without white showing.

Cover the canvas with wax paper

and iron until the colors melt.

Carefully check to see that the colors have melted

by lifting the wax paper.

If the color has not melted all of the way

lay the wax paper back down and re-iron.

To add a little extra pazzaz

wrap the edges with ribbon and tack down with

Glitter Finger Polish Tacks

Now your child has their very own master piece.

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

~Claude Monet

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Cookie Burst

Are you looking for a super easy cookie recipe?

Here it is!

And it only takes 4 ingredients!

And has a BURST of Flavor!

What more could you ask for?
What flavor will you use?
Lemon, Strawberry, Chocolate

Ingredients:

1 box cake mix
(we used lemon & strawberry)

8 oz cool whip

1 egg

1/3 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Beat together egg, cool whip and cake mix until well blended in medium bowl. 

Dough will be thick.

Drop by teaspoons full into powdered sugar.  

Roll in sugar to coat.

Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Bake 10 - 12 minutes.

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand”



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Tootsie Roll Fudge

Do you have a childhood memory of a special candy?

Mine is Tootsie Rolls.

I always have a candy dish full of Tootsie Rolls.

Take a peek at how you can make your own
 Cheery O Bowl

I found this wonderful recipe from Camie at

Home Cooking For Six

Ingredients:1 teaspoon plus 2 Tablespoons butter, divided

2 cups Tootsie Roll Midgees

2-3 Tablespoons peanut butter

3-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar

2 Tablespoons milk (or to desired consistency)

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts (if desired)

Candy to decorate or mix within

(Heath bar, M&Ms, Peanut Butter cups, Reese's Pieces, etc)

Line an 8" square pan with foil.  Grease the foil with 1 teaspoon butter, set aside.

In a heave saucepan, melt the butter, Tootsie Rolls, peanut butter and remaining butter

over low heat, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Gradually stir in the

confectioner's sugar, milk and vanilla (mixture will be VERY thick). 

Mix with hands on counter top.

Fold in nuts or candy (optional).  Spread into prepared pan.

Top with candy, if desired, OR using a sharp knife, score the surface into 1" squares.

Press candy into the center of each square.  Cool.  Using foil, remove fudge from pan.

Cut into squares.  Store in an airtight container.

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