Fun Finds Friday!

We found some really cute things this week to share on our Fun Finds Friday! We hope that all of you have a fantastic New Year!

Check out these awesome New Year's Eve Cupcakes from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen...

We found this wonderful idea on Party Wagon's facebook page. I can't find who made them. If anyone knows please let us know so we can give them credit. Perfect for a New Year's party!

Love this idea from Fiskars for Valentine's Day...

Another cute one from The Fry Family Blog...

These are really cute Countdown Bags from Hosier Homemade...

Love these New Year's Cookies from Sweet Sugar Belle!

Doesn't this Peppermint Ice Cream Cake look amazing! From Hostess and spotted on Cute Food For Kids. A Great way to use left over candy canes..

Love these Cookie Sheet Cookies from Munchkin Munchies...so creative!

This Rainbow Jello Cake is pretty cool from Catholic Icing...

These Football Woopie Pies are fun to serve up on game day! From Make Merry Events...

These Ball Drop Cupcake Toppers are fun from One Charming Party!

New Year's Midnight Oreo Pops!

We thought it would fun to make little midnight clocks out of oreo's for New years! Ours are a little sloppy from the kids running around and being a bit wild while making these so most of you could do a lot better.

We used oreo cookies, white candy coating, chocolate candy coating (or chocolate chips), lollipop sticks, and chocolate sprinkles.

Open the oreos and cut out just a slice of the cream to put in the stick. We secured with cookie frosting.

We melted just a couple of bars of the chocolate first in the microwave (or a cup of chocolate chips). Put the melted chocolate in a baggie and snip off the corner. Pipe 2012 onto wax paper like this...

Let that dry. Melt the white chocolate coating in the microwave and dip the oreos in it. Place onto wax paper. Use chocolate sprinkles to make the clock before it dries. Place the 2012 numbers on the top while the chocolate is still soft. Let it dry and that is it!

These are so easy to make and the boys loved them!

Here is my youngest with his. He only got to eat the number 2, but he was happy with that!

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New Years Dinner for Kids!

We made this fun Midnight Clock Quesadilla for New Years and the kids thought it turned out so cool! We used 2 tortillas, shredded cheese, black beans, sour cream, and a small piece of a yellow pepper.

Sprinkle cheese in between the tortillas and heat it up in a pan or microwave. Heat up a small bowl of black beans and decorate the clock with them. Put a small amount of sour cream in a baggie and snip off just a tad on the corner to pipe on the words. We had a small star cookie cutter and cut out the stars with that from the yellow pepper. There are so many ways to decorate this. You could use different colored peppers and tomatoes to make fire works,etc...

Let the kids make their own...they might surprise you with how creative they can be!

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Star Wars Gingerbread Men

We hope that all of you had a wonder Christmas! My little boys wanted to make cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa and came up with these Star Wars Gingerbread Cookies. They created them all by themselves! I just love the Jawa's they made!ha They will turn anything into Star Wars...anything! I love their idea and thought some of you might enjoy them as well. They did have other characters from the movie, but I picked out the best ones. Santa loved all of them! Great job boys!

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Fun Finds Friday!

It's time for our Fun Finds Friday! You might get a couple of last minute Christmas ideas out of these wonderful finds or at least pin them for next year! I can't believe we are only a couple of days away until Christmas. It is so warm here in Atlanta...so different from last year. I am headed out today to finish some last minute shopping! Here are a few of our favorite finds this week...

Love this beautiful cake made by Bakingdom!

Here is another fabulous creation by Munchin Munchies....

Love this 5 Min. Fudge Wreath from Tidy Mom...

Cute tree pancakes from Midstate Mills...

This is a really cute Buddy the Elf Party from Pizzazzerie...

Cute Gingerbread Tags from Crafts by Amanda...

What a pretty Christmas House made with sugar cubes from Martha Stewart!

My boys made these Star Wars Snowflakes last week and loved them! Get the templates here at Dude Craft...

Check out this pretty Peppermint Swirl Frosting spotted on Be Different Act Normal...

This is a neat Book Page Tree from Free Stylin...

Cute Christmas Pizza's from Delia Creates...

We hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas!

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

A couple of Christmas Dinners for Kids!

We made a couple of fun Christmas dinners and wanted to share them with you!

The first one is this Reindeer, Snowman, and Christmas Tree dinner. It's so easy! The reindeer is a burger with large pretzels for the antlers, tomato for the nose, and edible eyes. The tree is string green beans, tomato for the garland, and a yellow pepper for the star (you could use pineapple). The snowman is mashed potatoes, a carrot for the nose, and raisins for the mouth and eyes. My boys loved this and it's so simple to make!

This is our Christmas Tree Quesadilla! We just used 2 spinach tortillas, cheese, and peppers for the ornaments and star. We cut the tortillas with kitchen scissors to make the tree. Sprinkle with cheese and fry it up or melt in the microwave. The trunk is black beans. You could use fruit to decorate as well!

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North Pole Cupcakes & Peppermint Popcorn

We spotted these North Pole cupcakes and just loved them! I made them for my 5 year olds kindergarten class party. They are so easy to make and just look so cute! This is not our idea and I am not sure who originally came up with this, but I did first see them on One Charming Party.

We used white cupcake liners, strawberry cupcakes, white frosting, white decorating sugar for the top, candy canes (with the tops broken off), and red candies. Make your own North Pole sign or go to the One Charming Party link to get their free printable.

This Peppermint Popcorn is something else that we made that I could sit around and eat all day long! We spotted this one of Skip To My Lou. It's so easy. Just a cup of crushed peppermint mixed with 16 oz of white chocolate (or bark). Mix 1/2 a cup of crushed peppermints with 2 regular popped bags of pop corn (or 4 qts). Sprinkle with the rest of the crushed peppermint. It's SO good and great to give away for last minute Christmas goodies!

O Honeydew O Honeydew, Thy Fruit I am Arranging!

My 8 year old is having his Christmas class party tomorrow and it is first thing in the morning. It will be a breakfast type of thing and we were assigned to bring fruit. Green grapes were already snatched up by someone else so we were a bit limited on how creative we could be and make it simple. We ended up with this honeydew tree and we are pleased with how cute it turned out. I just can never be ok with dropping off a bag of fruit, but that's just me!

We used 1 honeydew melon, maraschino cherries, 1 pineapple slice from a can, and just a few dark grapes. We were just going to use a 9x13 tray and cut up strawberries for the background around the tree. However, we found these tree trays at Kroger on clearence and it worked out perfect!

We cut our honeydew into squares and just layered them on the tree tray. We cut 1 pineapple slice to look like a star on top. We cut the cherries in half and lined them up to look like garland. We put a few dark grapes at the bottom for the tree trunk.

How easy is that! Green grapes would look pretty on this as well!

Away in a Manger Breakfast!

My boys really wanted to make something with baby Jesus so we decided to make this manger scene breakfast. We used pancakes, 1 egg, a couple of chocolate Puffins cereal (you could use bacon), chex cereal (or you could use shredded wheat).

We just shaped our pancakes in the shape of a barn in the pan. Cut off the edges to clean it up with kitchen scissors. Cut out the opening in the middle. We beat 1 egg and poured it in our pan. Make it like a omelette. We used a star cookie cutter to make the shining star. We used the scraps to make a blanket for baby Jesus. We used 2 square Puffins cereal for the manger (or bacon) and broke up some Chex cereal for the hay.

Use what you have and it's super easy to make! A fun breakfast to make with the kids and a great way to talk with them about the true meaning of Christmas!

Easy Christmas Goodies

We have been baking like crazy the last couple of days and needed a couple of super easy goodies to throw in the mix for kids. We made these cute little treats and wanted to share them with you. We just used what we had. They are so easy to make!

We made these Snowmen with pre made chocolate covered oreos. We attached regular and mini chocolate chips on the face with cookie frosting. We used orange cookie frosting for the nose. We broke a regular oreo in half and scraped off the cream. Cut one in half and cut the other one in a square with a knife. Attach it on the top with chocolate cookie frosting.

We took a easy short cut with these gift goodies and bought pre made rice krispie treats with holiday colors. We just tied red and green Twizzler pull a part strips around them and tied a bow on top.

Just a couple of last minute ideas!

This is just some of our Christmas goodies that we baked to give out. Lots of work, but lots of fun!!

Fun Finds Friday!

I almost forgot about our Fun Finds Friday from being so busy with all of the craziness of Christmas shopping and baking! I have been baking non stop for the last couple of days and have one more day to go. My feet hurt from running around the kitchen, but I love it! Here are a few goodies and crafts that we really liked from this past week....

How cute is this Melted Snow Man from Juneberr-Lane...

We love this Ricke Krispie Treat Tree from Cookies and Cups!

Cute Santa Bread from Prunille Fee!

These Bubble Trouble Cupcakes are so adorable! Spotted on Cupcakes Take the Cake...

These Christmas Utensil holders are really cute by Stamps with Heather...

This is a cute Reindeer Treat Bag from Kids Activities...

Check out these cute North Pole Cupcakes from The Decorated Cookie...

These Rice Krispie Gingerbread Men are cute! Made by Amanda's Cookin...

I am not really into the whole bento thing. They always look pretty cute, but most of them are just not pratical. However....this one is and it's super cute! Made by Jill from Meet the Dubiens...

Fruit Candy Canes

We made these Fruit Candy Canes a couple of weeks ago and I totally forgot about it until I noticed this apple candy cane posted by the Queen of Pancakes Jenni Price Illustration....

Check out her link on how she made the apple candy canes and check out her amazing pancakes!

We made ours by cutting a few strawberries and 1 banana. Just rotate them in the candy cane shape and that is it. You just can't get any easier than that!