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Here’s a few ideas!

Rice Crispy Snowballs

Scrummy rice crispy snowballs are so easy to make. Making them is a great fun activity with a scrumptious reward at the end! Don’t forget the apron!

Simply melt some white chocolate in a bowl, mix in some rice crispies. Then take a small handful of the mixture and roll it into snowball shape. Place the snowball onto a plate and put into the fridge to cool down.

After a couple of hours the snowballs should have harden and will be ready to eat!

Now, we have Raw Art

Raid your fridge for any leftover vegetables - they can make excellent tools for painting and printing.

Yesterday Madeleine and I found some mushrooms, broccoli, carrots and a cabbage leaf lurking in the bottom of my fridge (Mummy isn’t the best cook in the world, painting with vegetables seems much more fun than cooking!!).

We sliced a couple of mushrooms in half, diced one carrot and then sliced another length ways. We pealed one cabbage leaf off and cut a few stems of broccoli. We were now ready to paint!

Madeleine simply dabbed the vegetable into the paint and then either used it like a paint brush or as a stamp. The vegetables made lovely shapes, especially the head of the broccoli and the cabbage leaf.

At this point you are probably imagining a masterpiece - but most of Madeleine’s creations do end up looking the same - one day…

I’m sure there are other fruits of vegetables that work just as well…any suggestions…

White Chocolate Peppermint Bark

Ingredients:
• 16 oz white chocolate
• 2 red, white, green striped candy cane, crushed into
   small pieces
Directions:
1.  Butter a baking sheet (grease with butter) and set
     aside.
2.  Heat white chocolate in double boiler over low heat
     until all is melted.
3.  Add crushed candy cane to white chocolate.
4.  Pour mixture onto wax paper-lined cookie sheet,
     spreading very thinly with spatula.
5.  Let the peppermint bark cool and break it into
5.  pieces.
6.  Store in airtight container lined with wax paper,
     separating the layers with wax paper.

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