Cookie Monsters

Everyday I try to stick to a schedule similar to a preschool. This includes crafting time, which means that I find or come up with activities that include markers, colored pencils, scissors, construction paper, glue sticks, or play dough. I found a cookie monster craft on Kids Activities Blog. We took it a step further.

Nash took it a step further
and added a body for
Cookie Monster. 

We took a cupcake liner, flattened it out, and pasted them onto construction paper. The cupcake liner makes an easy circle. The boys painted it blue. We cut out little circles out of white construction paper for Cookie Monsters googly eyes. They were pasted on and little black dots were put on them to complete the eyes. A big smiley face was added with a marker. As we were making the mouth the boys said it would be good for Cookie Monster to have cookies to eat. So we made cookies.

I like baking with the boys because it's pretty easy. I set the kitchen up like a cooking show. I measure out all the ingredients and put them in small bowls, so all they have to do is dump them all together. It's made even easier because we have a Kitchen Aid mixer, which they know how to move the levers on. After it was mixed they asked to make blue cookies for Cookie Monster. I like blue cookies, so the boys added blue food coloring, which made the cookie dough more green than blue. The boys and I balled up the cookies, and then I baked them.

When they were all baked the boys asked if they could share some cookies with the librarians. We go to the library often, and the boys attended the reading program there this summer. I said of course we could share. I bagged up some cookies, and we delivered them to the library.