halloweening with the littles

some shareable ideas we had fun with today in D's little school:

Candy Corn Cookies

How-To:

1. Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe. 
2. Divide the dough into three equal portions.  One portion stays white, color one portion orange, and melt 1-2 squares of unsweetened chocolate to mix with one portion to make it chocolate. 
3. Line small bread loaf pans with parchment or waxed paper.  Fill with chocolate, then orange, then white dough.  My recipe (which is fairly large) filled 3 mini loaf pans.
4. Place dough in freezer for about 20 minutes.
5. Remove from freezer and from bread pans.  Then slice to desired cookie thickness (it will vary with your sugar cookie recipe, but I found that my cookies spread more than I liked unless I kept them about the thickness of this picture). 
6. Cut dough slab into triangles (I had little vultures gobbling up the excess from the edges). 
7. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes (or according to the directions of your own recipe). 

Ghost Bag

I'm all about keeping control when it comes to the combo of paint & kids (despite Kay's more fun example), so I lifted each child (one at a time) to sit by the kitchen sink, painted white on the bottom of their foot, stamped it onto the bag, then swiveled said foot straight into the sink for washing.  It worked well and they reveled in the tickly nature of the task.  And the eye gluing.  There was much consternation in the choosing of eyes.

I also loved these ideas:

Dip Nutter Butter cookies into white chocolate, then make eyes & spooky mouth with dark chocolate...so simple & cute.  The idea comes from KidCuisine.

Jim thought these owls looked creepy, but I loved them (and I guess creepy is the point!).  Kudos to The Custom Cakery for such originality.

And I couldn't find who to give credit to for this one, but loved these stacked sugar cookie pumpkins.  I'm not sure who would need to eat a six-stack of sweetness, but they are so unique & well-done.

Comments

[Rachel]

I am in love with the candy corn cookies and have vowed to do them this weekend with my kids. So great!

[Mandy]

I am very impressed with your cookies, as was Ryley. She looked at them and said "ooh look at that candy." We may have to replicate them. Such a cute idea!

[Neighbor Jane Payne]

Oh wow. Good ideas the whole way around.

I'm with you on the foot painting. A brilliant application.

[Nina]

WOW Amy you are truly amazing... I love the candy corn cookies as well....

[sista #2]

Love the goodies! Love your bed (I've said before) and Love office supplies too!!! I
was just cruising the stationary isle at DollarTree :)

[michelle]

Oh. my. gosh. Those candy corn cookies are SO cute! Thanks for sharing.

Sadly, I would need a six-stack of sugar cookies. Maybe I should stay away from those, cute as they are!

[Mandi]

And here I thought you had just bought those pre-made Pillsbury cookies! How cute! I need to start doing more arts and crafts with my little "artists."

[Brady]

fun stuff, you are so awesome at making anything look cute and fun!

[Tiffany]

Ohhs and Ahhs from our home. Love your compilation of ideas!

I'm in a Halloween rut--for some reason I am forgetting all the festive things to do. Thanks for some fun ideas.

[Sheri]

very cute!

[Marie]

Oooh! Thanks for sharing these. So great!

[Jaimee Buckley]

How dang creative are you!?! I love the ghost bag and love, love, love the stacked cookie pumpkins! You are my idol and it's official: my kids & I both want ME to be YOU when I grow up. So dang cute!

[Leilani]

Now I'm going to have to make cookies this weekend! Please tell me you are going to do Joy school again next year! Terrific execution of painting with the ghost bags

[Erin]

my email address is

erin.anytimefitness@gmail.com. I'd love to find out how to make those cute letter boards. You are the best!

[Elizabeth]

So much Halloween goodness happening here. I need to get going!

[Emily]

So cute. Love the candy corn cookie idea! And I"m pretty sure that I know an 8+ month pregnant woman that would eat a 6 stack of sugar cookies right now. Because technically that is only 3 for me...I mean her, and three for the baby, right?!

[Shanon]

Seriously Amy you are way too talented! I love the ghost bags! Those are adorable!

[carlo]

oh my goodness. so much goodness!

love the footsie ghosts! brilliant!

and the stacked sugar cookies to look like a pumpkin? wow!!

the candy corn cookies are too cute- i am a huge fan of candy corn as a decoration-- they look so difficult though!

wish we could have a blogger pumpkin party-- you gals are awesome!

[carlo]

oh and I am not freezing up as much so the fix must have worked...yay!!!!!!!! i hated not commenting over here and to not see what you have going on was difficult! :)

[Amber's Crazy Bloggin' Canuck]

Oh. My. Gosh. That candy corn cookie recipe is the coolest!

[carlo]

must have those stacked cookies. and seriously? i could TOTALLY devour a stack or two.

yep! i love sugar cookies just that much! (disclaimer: my jeans don't but i do)

[Katie A.]

Mmmm, I think I could raise my hand for a pumpkin-shaped cookie (then hit the gym). Those are all such cute ideas!

I enjoyed your SPT post--my husband and I were just talking about how we miss being able to buy back-to-school supplies. They ARE fun! And my bed is NEVER made, except the days when I change the sheets. When company comes, I usually manage to tug the comforter up over the rumpled sheets so no one can really tell.

[Barb]

Those are brilliant ideas. Candy Corn is surprisingly difficult to find here. Only at Walmart, so it must be an American thing.

[Michelle M]

I love the cookie ideas! I know what I am going to be doing this morning.

It was so fun to see you on Saturday. We seriously need to all get together. I feel like the last 2 times I saw you, we hardley had a minute to catch up. Can you e-mail me your phone #? Thanks, Michelle Azsunm@aol.com

[Angie]

I am in love with your preschool craftiness. The candy corn cookies are darling!! (And I, too, would have immediately washed little painted feet.)

[Kelly]

I think my google reader is failing me! I was shocked to see these two posts, and I had no idea they were here.

This was the cutest post! Everything was just wonderful! You better watch out, or your group will want you on joy school duty full time.