Here in New England, it is bitter cold outside but inside, we are warming things up.
A staple in our refrigerator is premade peanut butter cookie dough which is perfect for last minute activities. It is shaped into a log and perfect for just cutting into slices or rolling out to use with cookie cutters. The local craft stores have buckets of 100s of plastic cookie cutters that are perfect all year, with numbers, shapes, letters, and holiday themes. This keeps shapes and cookies new and exciting with so many different cutters to choose from.
Cookie Bake
Let the fun begin, out comes the big jar of flour, the cutting boards (in the hopes of containing the mess), aprons, the cookie dough, and the cutters. Each twin has their own work area and baking sheet so there is no confusion as to who baked what cookies.
Instead of using a rolling pin, we just use small pieces of dough and the twins smash it with their hands. Once it is flat enough, they pick a cookie cutter and smash it into the dough. After a couple twists and turns, and the help of mommy, it is carefully placed on the cookie sheet and ready for the oven. After we repeat this a couple times and their cookie sheets are full of different cookies, into the oven they go. Watching the cookies bake is almost as fun as it is cutting them out!
Once they are out of the oven and cooled, the next part of our kitchen fun starts - decorating them. A trick that has worked for us is to give each twin a small bag of icing. Then cut a corner off and instantly they have a decorating bag that helps to eliminate some of the mess. We also use colored sprinkles, sugar crystals, and other decorations that are appropriate for the season.
When everyone is finished decorating, we all get a glass of milk and enjoy one (or two) cookies!
Snowy Day Activity: Bake Cookies
Kristen is a stay at home mom with three year old twins. Prior to having her twins, she was a kindergarten teacher and knows the importance of making learning fun. She is sharing her everyday life of raising twins. Lets connect at http://www.thedoublescoop.com
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