need crafts or recipes to do with my kids over the holidays?

Question

I just got a promotion at work but with this i had to switch to the sacond shift so dont see them to much any more but now i have a week off and want to spend some time with them and would like to do more than watch Dora 10000 times over

Answer 1

Bake cookies. ask each kid to pick his/her choice, if you live where there is cold weather and snow, make snowman and snow angles. warn weather play ball or go to a museum Ask your kids what would they like for you to do,sometimes they have the best answers.

Answer 2

You handle the hot stuff and watch them smile
Gummy Bears

List of Ingredients

1 (3-ounce) package flavored sugar free jello
6 packages unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup cold water


1. In a small saucepan, mix both the flavored and the unflavored gelatin.
2. Stir the gelatins up. Pour cold water in mixture and stir with a spatula until you have a gloppy-chunky blob not unlike play-doh.
3. Turn heat stove top burner on medium and melt blob.
4. Stir the blob constantly until melted.
5. Pour the melted mixture into miniature bear molds, or other small candy type molds.
6. Place filled molds in freezer for 10 minutes to cool.

Note: As stated, if you don't have miniature bear molds, you can use other molds. Or, you can do the following. Take the rack out of your toaster oven and put it on the counter. Drape a big sheet of aluminum foil over it. Cram the aluminum foil down into the gaps, leaving striplike molds. Presto! Gummy tapeworms. Yummy! You can also use cake or cooling racks for this.

[Note: You can also use other shapes of candy molds. These are plastic molds that you can find near the cake decorating supplies of your craft store. Wilton, known as a cake decorating supplier, is one company that sells these. However, even the very small ice cube trays or shaped ice cube trays that you find in kitchen supply stores can be used.]

Answer 3

Graham cracker "gingerbread" houses to go with the other poster's lollipop tree. Use graham crackers for walls and roof, frosting as "glue" and candy canes, pretzels, dried fruit, candy as decoration. Assemble on a plate and it can be eaten later. --If your kids are older, you can make this a whole day project by making actual gingerbread first.

You can also go to the craft store and get yellow and blue pony beads, daisy beads and elastic and make Dora bracelets. It doesn't take long, but maybe y'all could make a bunch of them to give to cousins, friends, etc. You can make, like, 30 bracelets like the one Dora wears for about $8.

Also Dora-related, the kids can work on making a map of the neighborhood. Go on a walk and decide what should be on the map. Then have them draw what they saw when you return home. Also gives you an interesting insight on their perspective of things by what they choose to include in the map.

Wax paper + crayons + iron for "stained glass"

Nothing's better than the old bedsheet-over-chairs-tent and several good picture books in the living room. Maybe even use a thick blanket for the tent and read with a flashlight.

To make bubbles the size of basketballs: Make a big bowl of soapy water. Take a long (at least 15") piece of string and tie it into a loop. Submerge your hands and the string into the water and draw them out (your hands need to be wet) and, holding the string loop open with your fists parallel to each other and about 6" apart, make a circle motion in the air, away from your body and then back. It takes some practice and experiementing, but you can consistently make bubbles bigger than the average 4-yr-old's head.

Have fun!

Answer 4

These are called COCONUT ICE SHAPES and they're a great recipe for kids. They will be entertained for hour!

Ingredients:
1 small can of condensed milk
250g ice sugar
175g desiccated coconut
2 food colourings
baking tray or plate, 2 bowls
sieve, wooden spoon, blunt knife

STEP1: Open the tin of milk and pour it into a bowl; sieve in the icing sugar.
STEP2: Mix the sugar and milk.
STEP3: Add the coconut and stir. It should be very stiff.
STEP4: Divide the dough into two and put one piece in each bowl.
STEP5: Add a little colouring to each piece and knead it in.
STEP6: Press out each piece into a flat circle, about 1 ½ cms thick.
STEP7: Press the circles together.
STEP8: Cut up into shapes when hardened.
STEP9: Enjoy!

Answer 5

KIDS FAVORITE BREAKFAST BARS

2 jars marshmallow creme
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tbsp vanilla
1 stick butter
1/2 box Wheaties energy crunch
1 cup granola, plain or with nuts

Melt butter and vanilla together for 1 min in the microwave. Add peanut butter and marshmallow creme and stir well to combine.
Add Wheaties to the mixture and spread it out in a plastic refrigerator container. Add granola to the top and press down into the mix with an offset spatula.

Chill and serve. Enjoy!

Answer 6

Here are a couple of ideas

1. Make rice crispy treats. you can use a cookie cutter to make them into holiday shapes andyou can use food coloring to make them red and/or green

2. Decorate stockings. You can get very cheap stockings at the dollar store and then they can decorate them with glitter glue, markers, etc

3. Make New Year's decorations. You guys can make noise makers and party hats

Hope this helps

Answer 7

Make up a batch of sugar cookie dough and get an assortment of cookie cutters. After rolling out the dough let the kids have at it with the cookie cutters and the sprinkles or other decorative frosting. They will also enjoy munching on them when they are done.

Answer 8

Baking cookies is always a lot of fun. Try these snickerdoodles. Kids love them. Grown ups too. You can get the recipe on the site listed.

Answer 9

Butter cookies: 1Cbutter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 2T orange juice, 1T vanilla, 1t baking powder mix all together and have a blast.

bake at 400 degrees 6-10 minutes after rolling out and cutting w cutters. (ungreased cookie sheets

Answer 10

does she enjoy playing with clay ? if yes, make simple pumpkins, etc out of colored modeling clay. let them be small in size but more in number. tie different sized strings to these & hang them on a hanger like a mobile over the window/door... make simple ghosts with plain white paper or white fabric - just a square piece hung diagonally with the top end folded like a hood. these can also be added to the mobile. look around for styrofoam cups/containers/articles. make stuff with them - let her color them or dip them in diluted color & let dry. hope these help i have a 6 1/2-yr old lovely autistic niece & with constant effort & intervention she can now draw & color quite well. your little one will too. all the very best & have fun.