Baking & Crafting Fun

Snow globe:Each child receives an empty little porridge jar or another small jam jar with a screw lid. Then the little birthday guests may add sequins, confetti sprinkles and glitter to the jar as they like. Now add water, a few drops of baby oil and blue food coloring, screw on the lid, turn it upside down and the DIY snow globe is ready! To make sure no liquid leaks out, an adult should seal the lid with hot glue.

Baking cookies: So that the kitchen doesn't look too bad after baking, it's best to lay a large waxed tablecloth on and under the table where the baking is being done. Also, each child gets an apron. An adult now rolls out the cookie dough for the children. Now the little ones can cut out cookies to their heart's content.

The adults take care of the baking in the oven again. When the cookies are finished and cooled, the children may decorate them – with sprinkles, chocolate, colorful sugar pearls, nuts, grated coconut, etc. The best part comes, of course, at the end: devouring the homemade cookies!

Cookie-cutter 'Memory' game: All the children sit in a circle. About 10 cookie cutters are placed on a cloth in the middle and named with the children, e.g. St. Nicholas, Christmas tree, reindeer, angel, … The children must now memorize the shapes well. Then another cloth is laid over the cutters and the game leader secretly removes one or two shapes. Afterwards the cloth is removed and the children must guess which cutter is missing.