Baking & Crafting Fun

Snow globe: Each child gets an empty baby-food jar or another small jam jar with a screw cap. Then the little birthday guests may add sequins, sprinkle confetti 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: To prevent the kitchen from looking too messy after baking, it's best to lay a large oilcloth on and under the table where baking takes place. 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 as they wish.

The adults will take care of the baking in the oven. Once the cookies are done and cooled, the children may decorate them – with sprinkles, chocolate, colorful beads, nuts, grated coconut, etc. The best, of course, comes at the end: eating the cookies they baked themselves!

Cookie cutter 'Memory': All 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 should 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 taken away again and the children have to guess which cutter is missing.