Looking for some fun recipes to get your little one in the holiday mood? Look no further! get your little one in the kitchen and enjoy making some memories and delicious treats at the same time.

Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees

Instructions:

This is a fairly simple recipe meets craft. Have your child frost the ice cream cone with the green cake frosting and then add M&Ms as the ornaments.

Via Craftaholics Anonymous

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Grinch Popcorn

Instructions:

Start by making 10 cups of popcorn. Salt the popcorn and make sure to get all the unpopped kernels out. Next make the marshmallow coating. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan on medium heat. Add 3 cups of the mini marshmallows to the pan and stir until melted. Turn off the heat and add the yellow food coloring to the marshmallow mixture. Add a small amount of blue food coloring adding more until you get the perfect “Grinch green.” Coat the popcorn with the green marshmallow mixture. Add the remaining mini marshmallows and red M&Ms to the popcorn while still warm.

Via Two Sisters Crafting

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Homemade Gumdrops

Instructions:

Coat a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside. Combine 2 cups sugar, applesauce, Jell-O, unflavored gelatin and lemon juice in a large saucepan.

Stir to combine. Let stand for 1 minute. Bring to a boil over medium heat stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute and then immediately pour into prepared baking dish.

Refrigerate until firm – about three hours should do it but overnight is better.

Cover a large cutting board with parchment paper and sprinkle with sugar. Loosen the sides of the gelatin with a spatula and invert onto parchment paper.

Use small, sharp cookie cutters to cut out gumdrops. If needed, you can dip the cutters into hot water first. You may need to periodically rinse off the cutters as well to keep them clean. Leave the cutout gumdrops on top of the sugar-coated parchment paper for about 8 hours or until just slightly sticky. Roll the gumdrops in the remaining sugar and store in an airtight container.

Via Mom on Time Out

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Chocolate Reindeer Cookies

Instructions:

Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Place butter, brown sugar and water in a large saucepan; cook and stir over low heat until butter is melted. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate chips until smooth. Stir in eggs and extract. Stir in flour mixture. Let stand until firm enough to shape, about 15 minutes.

To freeze dough, shape level tablespoonfuls of dough into balls; flatten each to 1/4-in. thickness. Place in a covered container, separating layers with waxed paper; freeze until firm. (May be frozen up to 3 months.)

To bake, preheat oven to 350°. Place frozen dough portions 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake until set, 12-14 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely.

Spread cookies with frosting, reserving a small amount for mouths. Decorate faces with candy eyes; add peanut butter cups for snouts, pretzels for antlers and M&M’s for noses. Pipe mouths with reserved frosting.

Via Taste of Home

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Marshmallow Snowman

Instructions:

Start by breaking the pretzel sticks into the right proportion for your marshmallows. Just experiment and see what look you like. Also, I find that they go in a little easier if you twist them as you’re pushing them into the marshmallow.

Slide three marshmallows on the toothpick to create a snowman, then use scissors to clip off the pointy end of the toothpick.

Use the toothpick to poke holes for the arms, legs, and nose, and then push pretzels and a candy corn in the snowman. Then poke small holes for the buttons and push mini chocolate chips into the holes.

Place some mini chocolate chips in a sandwich baggie and melt in your microwave (30 seconds at a time until melted). Snip off a tiny corner of the baggie and “pipe” the chocolate out to draw eyes and a mouth on the snowman.

Make sure to let small kids know that there is a toothpick inside the snowman before they start eating it.

Via It’s Always Autumn

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Candy Cane Fruit Snack

Instructions:

This snack is a great way to improve knife skills. You don’t need a sharp knife for banana and strawberries. Start by talking about how to hold the knife safely and where to position both hands. While you supervise, have them chop up half a banana and two or three strawberries each. Then arrange them in a stripy pattern to create their own fruity candy cane.

Via Nurture Store

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Mickey’s Strawberry Santa Hats

Instructions:

Wash the strawberries with cool water, and carefully remove the hulls. Pat the fruit dry with a paper towel.

Melt some white chocolate in the microwave or on the stovetop, following the directions on the package.

 Working with one wafer cookie at a time, dip the surface in the melted candy so that it is generously coated. If needed, dip it twice.

 Place the dipped cookie on wax paper (coated side up), and immediately set a strawberry (hulled side down) on top. Quickly, but gently, push two small chocolate disks against the base of the berry for ears, holding them in place for a few seconds to make sure they stick. If they don’t hold, use a little more melted candy to attach them.

 Repeat steps 3 and 4 to make as many more hats as you want, reserving some of the melted white chocolate for the pom-pom tops. When you’re ready to add the pom-poms, let the melted white chocolate cool slightly so that it will thicken a bit. Then spoon a small blob onto each strawberry tip.

 Finally, add a little texture to the hat trim, if you like, by using a fork to gently “scramble” what’s left of the partially cooled white chocolate (it should resemble flaked coconut). Gently press some of the white chocolate flakes onto the candy hat brims while they are still warm so they will stick in place. Once the candy is completely set, arrange the finished hats on a plate to serve.

Via Disney Family

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Reindeer Sandwiches

Instructions:

Make a normal PB&J sandwich and then use a heart cookie cutter to cut out the sandwich. Add two small, twisted pretzels by pushing them into the center of the sandwich so you have antlers. Then add two chocolate chips for eyes and a red M&M for a nose.

Via A Spotted Pony