Cute Christmas Desserts for Kids
Christmas dessert crafts are a fun and exciting way to celebrate the holidays. Kids can enjoy holiday-themed desserts and even created them themselves. Consider simple and easily recognizable desserts that don't require much to assemble and decorate. Does this Spark an idea?
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Cupcakes
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Create snowman cupcakes with white frosting and by placing three cupcakes together. Use pretzel sticks as arms, M&Ms as buttons and a candy corn as a nose. For simpler cupcakes, you can stack marshmallows on top of a cupcake or simply frost cupcakes with red and green icing.
Rice Cereal Treats
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Rice cereal treats make great dessert crafts because they are easy to cut into distinct shapes. Because of this, your options range from Christmas trees to snowmen, stars or ornaments. You can make gifts out of rice cereal treats by cutting them into squares and using frosting and sprinkles to decorate them to look like gift boxes.
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Cookies
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Cookies are the easiest food crafts for children to decorate. Consider decorating sugar cookies with colored frosting. Use shaped cookie cutters to create shapes like snowmen, Christmas trees or gingerbread men.
Candied Apples
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Candied apples are easy to create with caramel, sprinkles and various candies. These are a semi-healthy dessert, especially if you use low-fat caramel. Candied apples are also great for children with allergies.
Gingerbread
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Gingerbread crafts are fun for kids and are a staple food during the holidays. Consider gingerbread houses or decorated gingerbread men. Kids can use the top half of a milk carton as a base for a gingerbread house by placing the walls of the gingerbread house around the edges of the carton. This creates a sturdy foundation and will make it easier to create the rest of the house. Create gingerbread men and women using cookie cutters and then decorate them to have different expressions and clothing.
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