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Want an idea for a fun activity to experience with your kids? How about something that will give your kids a sense of accomplishment that will make them feel like a grown up? Baking is that perfect activity. It gives kids practice to improve their invaluable skills in the kitchen, which they’ll need later in life. The best choices for recipes should be easy to make and allow for some creativity such as shapes, colors or toppings, and of course, the most important “ingredient”, they should taste great!

So what’s something that your kids will love to make and eat?

You got it- rice crispy treats. We will look at three different approaches in this article and add some twists along the way. We will make normal rice crispy treats, mixed ones and chocolate covered. You’ve all made rice crispy treats before using the traditional recipe from the back of the cereal box. Let’s take it a step further and discuss unique treat shapes. You can make the traditional square-shaped treats with a square cake or brownie pan, but you could have even more fun than that. Find some cake pans with a whole variety of different shapes. There a variety of different shaped pans to choose from, anything from their favorite cartoon or movie characters, holiday shapes from Halloween or Christmas to miscellaneous small shapes. The cake pans come in all sizes big and small and can be found in stores that sell baking or craft supplies and, of course, online too.

Before you finish up all the mix, take half of it and blend in your favorite hard candies to add flavor and a contrast of texture, whether they’re M&Ms, Reese’s Pieces or cinnamon candies. Why stop at hard candies? Throw in your kids’ favorite soft candies too. Or make a separate batch with them? Try some multi-colored chocolate chips or your favorite gummy candies, maybe Sour Patch Kids.

Want some more unique ideas? Blend in chocolate-flavored rice crisp cereal to create a treat with two different flavors. Just have the kids help with stirring the mix after it’s removed from the heat (microwave or stove top), mixing in the candies and pressing the mix into your choice of pan.

Your kids will love their rice crispy creations and can take them to school to share with their classmates and they also make great teachers gifts. But the fun has just begun. You could combine all these different ideas for the “ultimate step”.

Now we are going to create chocolate covered rice crispy treats!

I prefer to use a double boiler to melt my chocolate which is one pan sitting inside a bigger pan. You heat up the water on medium heat in the bottom pan and place grated milk chocolate or milk chocolate chips in the top one. You can also melt chips in the microwave using a small microwavable bowl. First, heat up the chips for one minute and 10 seconds stir and then again in 10-second intervals. The chips will not melt down to liquid on their own. You must stir them with a metal spoon once they show signs of melting. No matter the shape of treat, dip it into the chocolate at least half way over the treat and place on a baking sheet lined with wax or parchment paper. Toss on some sprinkles or red, green or blue colored sugar or dip the treats in white chocolate. Why not!

You kids will love all the different varieties. Let their creative juices flow. And don’t eat them all! Don’t forget to take some to the people that matter most. These delicious goodies make ideal teacher gifts, friend gifts, grandparents gifts or for relatives.

Let your “little chefs” boast how good their treats look and taste!

So when your child took their teacher the apple, how well was it received? I'd bet not a whole lot, right? What about turning it into a chocolate covered apple instead? Now that sounds good. Add some candy toppings or sprinkles and Mrs. Brown will have a yummy snack while reading over your child's paper. Teachers are true national heroes. No matter what part of the world your from, how would we have turned out without teachers? They work hard before, during and after classes to make sure our children have the best tools possible in order to succeed and often times don’t get the credit they deserve. Here's your chance!

What are some gifts that will "get the grades"?

Many gifts can become expensive and it's uncertain whether the teachers will like them. How about some gifts that don't cost much and will be well-liked? Many deluxe sweets and candy gifts are easy to create and don't cost much money. They not only are delicious, they look fantastic. There are many easy recipes for desserts and homemade candy to choose from.

So what are some great tasting dessert gifts that are easy to create?

Here are two of my favorites: chocolate covered desserts and cupcakes. There are many great easy chocolate covered recipes from chocolate covered apples and cherries to different nuts and coffee beans. The technique of chocolate covering is pretty simple involving some high quality chocolate and either a double boiler or just a microwave. Some great tasting nuts to use in these recipes are pecans or almonds. Coffee or espresso beans are tasty options to use too. Wrap your candy gifts in plastic gift bags and place them in decorative boxes. Keep the gifts cold right up to delivery.

There is an endless variety of cupcake flavors and you can spread frosting on top and decorate them. You can stir in pieces of strawberries, peaches, other fruits and nuts, or even make small versions of bigger types of cakes such as red velvet cake or upside down pineapple cake. You can make the music teacher Mr. Smith many of the same kind or create a few batches and combine the flavors to give several different teachers multi-flavored batches. My suggestion would be at least two different flavors, chocolate cupcakes of some kind and some fruit flavors: try triple chocolate and vanilla rainbow cupcakes. Sprinkle your preferred toppings on top and place them in enclosed plastic container. Find some nice wrapping paper and make sure the gifts stay cool for as long as possible.

There are just a few suppllies required to make these gifts, but the gifts will bring lots of smiles to these national treasures, our teachers. Make them feel special and acknowledge their hard work and vast number of achievements. It’s time we give our teachers good grades too!

Do you want an activity that is fun for you and your kids? How would you like to make someone feel special and make them smile with the help of your kids? Maybe you could make some gifts for those special people in your lives? You could make grandma’s or grandapa’s day much brighter, wish a great aunt or uncle a happy birthday or maybe even show you child’s teacher how important they are.

So what would be some good ideas for gifts that you and the kids could make?

Cakes and cupcakes are great because they’re easy to make and are fun to decorate, but today we’ll focus on cookies, specifically the kind that don’t require any baking: no bake cookies. There are a lot of ingredients you could use: chocolate, butterscotch, oats, raisins, fudge and so and so on. One of my favorite no bake cookies is chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies. The combination is extremely tasty! In fact, that makes me picture a bowl of butterscotch ice cream in front of me right now mixed with peanut butter and topped with chocolate syrup. Yum! That gives me another idea for more great recipes for kids to write about in the future.

Chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies are easy to make and don’t require many ingredients. The kids can help you by measuring the ingredients, mixing the uncooked dough and dropping it by spoonfuls onto the baking sheet.They’ll think they’re chefs!

Store the cookies in the fridge inside a plastic container and layer the cookies between sheets of wax paper. Upon delivery place them in a decorative tin box, you could even wrap it and include a gift message. Have your son bring a smile to grandma’s face with a box of these decadent cookies topped with a ribbon tied around it and a message inside like, “Hope your heart is filled with joy today just like this tin is filled with these delicious cookies I made for you. I’m thinking about you grandma!” Your daughter could deliver a gift wrapped tin box to her third grade teacher with a message such as, “You’ve helped me get good grades. Hope these cookies get an A in taste. Thank you Mrs. Carter for everything.”

You and the kids will have fun and Mrs. Carter and grandma will feel loved and appreciated. No bake cookies make great teacher gifts, grandparents gifts, birthday gifts and thank you gifts. Enjoy this fun activity together with your kids. And they’ll enjoy making others smile.

Would you like an idea for a fun activity to share with your kids? How about an activity that will teach them some valuable skills? Bake a delicious treat with your kids. Kids love to eat desserts and making them is a similar activity to making crafts except crafts don’t taste good? There is a number of sweets from which to choose, but today we will focus on a unique treat that the kids will a lot of fun making and eating: candy sushi.

It certainly does look like real sushi and that’s what your kids will like the most: they get to feel like they’re actual sushi chefs. Just like playing “house” they can pretend to make actual sushi rolls. They’ll want to take the candy sushi to their teachers. They’ll want to promote their homemade treat to grandma and grandpa. They’ll call their friends, cousins, aunts and uncles to announce to the world that they made homemade candy. This will start a string of other desserts they’ll want to make with mom or dad, giving you more fun things to do with your kids.

What is candy sushi?

It’s a concoction of crisped rice cereal that represents the real rice, gummy worms (you could also add red string licorice) to represent the fish, and the rolls wrapped in fruit leather which represents seaweed. It is the candy equivalent of makizushi rolls.

How do you make candy sushi?

The technique of making candy sushi is not complex. There are only the few ingredients previously mentioned and no baking involved. There’s just a little prep work involved, mixing melted butter and marshmallows with crisped rice, pressing and rolling the mix, adding some gummy worms, cutting the mix into rolled pieces and then wrapping them in fruit leather. Sushi candy rolls have a pretty presentation, tasty delicious and above all, are fun for the kids to create!

Don’t refrigerate them for too long or the gummy worms and fruit leather will begin to harden and lose flavor. Give them away as candy gifts or eat them yourself. You can choose a decorative Japanese plate on which to place them. And for added taste set aside some chocolate dipping sauce to represent soy sauce. If you wish to eat them for yourselves, then take a make-believe visit to a sushi bar.