You can change this craft up for just about any holiday or occasion by altering the sprinkles and candy colors.

Credit for this chocolate spoon craft goes to Mr. P. at DelicousDeliciousDelicous.  His are absolutely beautiful, so I recommend you take a look over there, too.

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My three-year-old and I made these as party favors when it was my turn to host Bunco night at the house, but we also packed some up and took them to her teachers at preschool.  The idea was to use them to stir into your coffee, but I found that many of the ladies were perfectly content to just eat the goodies right off the spoon!

What you need to make this chocolate spoon craft:

• Plastic spoons
• Chocolate chips
• Sprinkles and/or small candies
• A book
• A bowl

My daughter is convinced that everything is better with sprinkles!

Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave. We did a few rounds at 30 seconds and a couple of follow-up rounds at 15 seconds.

Prop the spoon handles up with a book so that the bowl part is flat and the chocolate won't run out. We used a regular spoon to ladle the chocolate into the plastic ones.

Kids can help add sprinkles to the still-warm chocolate to make this edible craft fancier and tastier.

You can add candies to your chocolate spoons, too. We used M&Ms and Kisses.

One bag of chocolate chips makes a lot of spoons!

What I Learned the Hard Way:  It takes them a little while to set up, so don’t make them 15 minutes before the party starts.

Making no bake cookies with kids is fun.

Dot and I enjoy baking, but nothing gets requested as often as these yummy, yummy no-bake cookies.  Despite the fact that there’s a fair amount of sugar and butter, I try to tell myself that it’s offset by the oats and peanut butter, for a cookie that’s not entirely horrible for us.

To make no bake cookies, you will need:

2 cups sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups minute oats

Ingredients for no bake cookie recipe

• Start by putting the milk, butter, sugar, and cocoa into a saucepan.
• Heat the mixture to boiling and let it boil for 1 1/2 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla.  (I put the peanut butter in first so it can melt before I add the oats.)

Boiling the no bake cookie mixture for 1 1/2 minutes is supposed to be the key to getting these to turn out just right.

The mixture will be very hot, so I usually have Dot watch me as I scoop spoonfuls out onto wax paper.  She then “helps” by flattening them down with a spatula.

This recipe makes about 36 no bake cookies.

What I Learned the Hard Way: Every once in a while, I get a batch of these that won’t quite firm up.  I have yet to figure out why, exactly.  What I have learned, however, is that you can put them in the freezer to harden them up, and they’re still totally delicious.  (Seriously, even if they’re just piles of goo on the wax paper, they’re totally delicious.)

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Chili Mac Recipe Kids Will Love

Chili Mac Ingredients

This recipe makes a big batch with plenty of leftovers for freezing. A half recipe will easily feed a family of 6.

Brown the ground turkey or beef and drain off the fat.

Add the chopped peppers, celery and onion and sauté until just-soft.

Pour into large stock pot and add the cans of tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and black beans. Stir.

Add the seasonings – cumin, taco sauce, chili powder, paprika, garlic powder, oregano and onion salt. Stir and simmer for 15 minutes.

Cook pasta separately according to the package directions. Drain, do not rinse, and add to the large stock pot, stirring thoroughly.

Serve with shredded cheese and cornbread… yummm…  Actually, it’s so filling you may not even need the cornbread!

More Recipes Kids Will Love

Homemade Sports Drink Mix

Homemade Microwave Popcorn

Red Hot Applesauce Recipe

Slow Cooked Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Fun Bunny Cupcake Idea

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What you Need to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Pre-made cupcakes frosted with white frosting

Bunny gummy candies

Large white marshmallows

Small pastel colored marshmallows

Chocolate syrup, mini chocolate chips, or other tiny round candies /sprinkles for the bunny eyes

How to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Honestly, decorating with gummy bunnies is pretty self-explanatory. I put four onto the cupcake and then added an extra dot of white frosting in the middle.

Make Bunny Cupcakes

For the bunny face cupcake, I cut large white marshmallows in half, then in half again so that it was cut in quarters. (You can cut marshmallows with a butter knife or plastic knife, don’t let the big steak knife fool you!)

Place two of the marshmallow quarters onto the cupcake, sticky side down. Place a small pink marshmallow onto the bottom of the bunny face for the nose. I then took a toothpick and dabbed a tiny bit of chocolate syrup on the end, and placed the dots for the bunny eyes. This was my improvisation because I didn’t have any sprinkles or chocolate mini morsels laying around (what kind of cook am I that doesn’t have mini morsels in her kitchen?!).

(Check out more Easter cupcakes at Hoosier Homemade!)

I’ve collected 16 awesome-looking (and much, much easier!) Halloween treats and party food recipes below. I have put together similarly large collections of Halloween Rice Krispie Treat recipes and healthy Halloween treats, too!

Chocolate Witch Hats Easy Halloween Cookies	Eyeball Cookie Recipe	Ritz Cracker Spider Snacks	Halloween Cat Cookies
Witch Hats Halloween Snack	Halloween Hot Dog Mummies	Healthy Halloween Apple Treats	Halloween Egg Critters
Witch’s Broom Breadsticks	Healthy Halloween Banana Centipedes	Bloody Punch Recipe	Ghostly Hand Halloween Punch
Spider Web Pizza	Frankenstein Tamale Pie	Monster Mouths Halloween Party Recipe	Candy Corn Pizza for Kids

Be sure to check out our Halloween handprint crafts and Halloween paper bag crafts, too!

Halloween Party Favors

Spooky Halloween Party Favor Kit
Price: $4.99
The Spooky Halloween favor kit for one guest includes: (1) Halloween Pumpkin Container, (1) Plastic Bat (comes in black or glow in the dark white, our choice please), (1) Beaded Necklace w/Trick or Treat Medallion, (1) Pumpkin Squeeze Ball, (1) Rubber Band Bracelet, (1) Bounce Ball.

Halloween Celebrations

Halloween Celebrations: Everything you need for a fabulous Halloween party shown in 120 photographs–recipes, costumes, decorations and games for the whole family
Price: $9.99
Pages: 64, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Southwater

Halloween Parties

Halloween Parties: How to Throw Spook-Tacular Soirees and Frighteningly Festive Entertainments
Price: $14.95
Pages: 80, Paperback, Harry N. Abrams

Halloween How To

A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations
Price: $16.15
Pages: 272, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Pelican Publishing Company

When cooking with peanut butter, I recommend using an all-natural variety so that you can limit the added sugars and fats. I used to have the hardest time finding natural peanut butter, but these days most grocery stores carry several brands. Santa Cruz Organics sent me some samples over the summer that would be perfect (if only they were still around in my house – my hubby is a peanut butter freak!).

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars	Warm PB & J Dip	Peanut Butter and Jelly Shortbread Wedges	Peanut Butter and Jelly Parfait
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi Lunchbox Rolls	Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies	Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins	Peanut Butter and Jelly Cake Recipe

Peanut Butter and Honey Recipes

Honey Cinnamon Peanut Dip	Honey Peanut Balls	Honey Peanut Butter Cookies	Peanut Butter and Honey Fudge

Peanut Butter and Banana Recipes

Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie	Peanut Banana Bread Pudding	Peanut Banana Lunchbox Rolls	Peanut Butter and Banana Crepes

For more back to school fun, check out 10 awesome kids lunch boxes, back to school review worksheets or all of the content on the newest Woo! Jr. Network site at Classroom Jr.!

But today was not one of those days. *grin*

Today I was in a rush and I was trying to figure out a way to make easy bunny cupcakes. I did, and they are quite cute… but then I looked at the almost-full bag of colored marshmallows and the last few undecorated cupcakes and I was inspired.

So viola – the easiest flower cupcakes on the planet:

Easter Dessert Flower Cupcakes

How to Make the Easiest Flower Cupcakes Ever

Quite honestly, these are so easy they are almost self-explanatory.

Bake cupcakes from a mix.

Frost them with store bought frosting.

Pop colored marshmallows on top.

Done.

For the flower leaves and the pointed yellow petals, all I did was cut the cupcakes in half diagonally like this:

Cut marshmallows

Even a little kid could cut the marshmallows, because you could use a plastic knife to do it.

By the way – my kids devoured them so fast I didn’t get to try one. So if you make these Easter cupcakes, please let me know how they are!