Things You'll Need:
- 1 box of ice cream sugar cones
- royal icing (see eHow article "How to Make Royal Icing for a Gingerbread House")
- green food coloring
- a variety of candy sprinkles and small candies
- large yellow gum drops
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Step 1
Cover the kitchen table with newspaper and make each child a separate work station. Put a sheet of aluminum foil on the table in front of each chair. On each sheet of aluminum foil, put a plastic knife, small mounds of each kind of candy available and 1 or 2 ice cream cones.
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Step 2
Put a few drops of green food coloring in the royal icing and stir. Add as much coloring as you need to make it Christmas tree green. Put a small bowl of the green icing in front of each child's work station.
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Step 3
Using your thumb or a rolling pin, flatten each yellow gum drop and either with a knife or a mini cookie cutter, cut a small star from each. Place the gum drop stars at each work station.
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Step 4
Now the fun can begin. Instruct the children turn their ice cream cones upside down and use their plastic knives to coat them heavily with green icing.
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Step 5
The children can then stick the little candies and sprinkles all over the "tree" as decorations. If they want, they can use the gum drop stars at the tops of the trees.
Comments
princessbride42 said
on 12/19/2007 The funny thing is this list sounds like the list our Kindergarten teacher sent home. Maybe we'll be doing it tomorrow! Looks like a great time!