Christmas Stars

Earlier this week, I gave C and R chocolate pretzel stars I made following the directions at Almost Unschoolers.  She actually used peanut butter chips, but I used melted chocolate chips to hold the pretzel sticks in the shape of a star.

Before they could eat them, we read The Christmas Story by Jane Werner.  I told them they could eat the stars when they knew why I made stars to go along with this book.  They both said they knew why, but I still made them wait until we got to that part of the book.

"Behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it stood over the place where the child lay.  When they saw the star, the wise men rejoiced and were glad."  

Snowmen for Breakfast

I made snowman pancakes this weekend.  They are certainly not the healthiest things to eat for breakfast, but they were cute and tasty!   The eyes and mouth were made with mini chocolate chips and the buttons were m&m's.  I used a little orange frosting for the nose, licorice for the scarf, and pretzel sticks for the arms.  A little powdered sugar made them look even better.

The snowmen did not stick around very long. 
I was inspired to make these when I saw snowman pancakes on the Family Fun website.

If you are looking for a healthier snowman snack, click here to see the banana snowmen we made.

Snowman Snack

This snowman is three slices of banana, pretzel stick arms and legs stuck in the sides of the banana slices, raisin eyes, mouth and buttons (I cut the raisins into small pieces to be more proportional), a tiny sliver of carrot for the nose, and fruit leather for the scarf.  He is surrounded by some graham cracker bunny friends. 

R enjoyed the snowman, but she wouldn't eat the raisins.  Next time I might try mini chocolate chips.