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Christmas Cookie Decorating Station
Here's one to try together!
Mix your own icing, swirl on red and green, and turn plain cookies into trees, stars and snowmen!
Reviewed by our team.
Safety first
- Sprinkles are a choking size for under 3s: offer big ones and sit close
- Allergens: the cookies contain wheat, milk and egg, and the icing contains milk
What you need
- Plain sugar cookies, about 12
- Powdered sugar, 1 cup
- Milk, 2 spoons
- Food coloring, red and green
- Clear cups, 3 small bowls
- Butter knives or spoons
- Sprinkles
- Plate or tray, 1 tray
- Plate or tray, 1 serving plate (optional)
- Wrapping for gifting cookies (optional)
How to do it
Grown-up prep: Cover the table, set out plain cookies, measure the icing ingredients and line up the bowls, spreaders and sprinkles.
- Stir the powdered sugar and milk together until it's smooth. Ask: What do you think will happen to the white powder when the milk goes in?
- Spoon the icing into three small bowls.
- Make one bowl red, one bowl green, and keep one white.
- Spread a thin coat of icing on each cookie.
- Decorate with sprinkles, dots and lines. Ask: Which holiday shape will you make: a tree, a star, a stocking or a snowman?
- Twist time: draw red and white stripes like a candy cane.
- Set the cookies on the tray and let the icing harden.
- Put your favorites on a plate, or wrap some for a neighbor! Ask: Who will you surprise with a cookie, and what new design will you try next time?
Play it again
- Theme round: everyone decorates a cookie to match a holiday song.
- Copycat cookies: one person decorates, the others try to make a perfect twin.
- Mystery shape: decorate a design and let others guess what it is.
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