Pigeon Poop!

This is one of our "bird theme" snacks, Pigeon Poop!

4 cups peanut butter crunch cereal

3 cups rice krispies

2 cups pretzel sticks broken in 1/2

2 cups miniature marshmallows

2 bags white chocolate chips

Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl and melt white chocolate chips in microwave and cover and mix, then lay on wax paper until cooled. Break into pieces.

The kids loved making this! It's so fun to say too!!

Great Play Dough Recipe

Homemade play dough is always fun to make.... It lasts longer and makes a ton!

Jamie's Play dough

2 cups flour

1 T. Alum

1 cup salt

2 cups boiling water

2 T. oil

Combine all. Mix well.

Add food coloring of your choice.

Let kiddos mix it up! *store in airtight containers or baggies

Easy Ice Cream Dessert

Cool Whip

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Toffee Bits

Layer the ice cream sandwiches in a 13x9 pan, spread cool whip on like frosting, then add toffee bits.

Repeat layers for a double layer dessert!

Freeze and enjoy!

Pilgim Hats!

My good friend, Sarah, told me about these cute little Pilgram hat treats!

We are all pilgrims on the journey to Christ!

Fudge striped cookies

Mini peanut butter cups

white frosting

place cookies stripe-side down, on the top of the peanut butter cup, dollop a little frosting, and put upside down on the chocolate of the cookie.

Fun and easy for kiddos!

Easy Snack Mix

Easy Snack Mix

1 box of Golden Grahams

3 packages of yogurt covered raisons

(my kiddos like to pick out the raisons, so I put lots in!)

New Year's Cheese Ball

This recipe I got from my MIL and it is actually called "Terry's Cheese Ball". I have no idea who Terry is and my husband has no idea, so I'm going to call it "New Year's Cheese Ball" because we make it every New Years Eve! It tastes great and has so few ingredients that it is SO easy to make!

New Year's Cheese Ball

2- 8 oz pkg cream cheese

1/2 cup black olives (sliced or chopped)

Mix above well, form into a ball and roll in a mixture of

1/3 cup chopped walnuts and

1 Tbsp parsley flakes

*This tastes great with Triscuits!

Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments!

Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments

1 cup applesauce

1 cup cinnamon

No baking and simple for kids! mix together to form a stiff dough. play around with it, if it's too wet and sticky, add more cinnamon, and if it's too dry, just add more applesauce. Roll out to 1/4 inch between plastic wrap. (because it's very, very messy otherwise, kind of a dry-sticky) cut with cookie cutters. Make a hole at the top with a straw for ribbon. Let air dry several days turning occasionally.

Makes about 12 great smelling ornaments!

**The first year we made these we painted them after they were dry with puffy paint and added eyes and glitter and beads, they turned out great!! But they are pretty enough to leave plain also.

***They make great Christmas gifts!

****These are NOT edible****

Homemade Peanut Butter!

My daughter got to make this recipe today for her math. She is learning fractions and multiplying and counting by 2's (peanuts in shells). It was a fun lesson and the kids really liked this all natural peanut butter.

1 cup shelled peanuts

1 tsp canola oil

Mix in food processor or blender until smooth. It doesn't get smooth really, but you'll know when it is done. It's a little chunky, but not big chunks. We doubled the recipe and had some leftover for tomorrow's snack.

Cinnamon Sticks!

I have never used Cinnamon sticks until our last social co-op. I put them in the crock pot with apple cider and they smelled so good, I can smell them as I type this!! (and that was a couple weeks ago!) It was fun to see the sticks uncurl and look like this by the end of the day. We didn't know this would happen. It was kind of a kitchen experiment for us. I am a new lover of cinnamon sticks!! I can't wait until Tom's Christmas party this weekend (at our house!) I am making apple cider for sure!! Tom's party is at our house, it's all his employees and is on the feast of St Nicholas, which makes it exciting! I will post a real picture of our pumpkin cheesecake and cream cheese bars afterward!

Update: I was so busy with our 20 some guests that I forgot to take pictures of the cheesecake or bars!!! So sorry!