Want to build lasting summer memories with your family?
Thanks to Mother’s Cookies “Stop and Taste the Frosting” Tour, your family has access to a treasure trove of activities that will keep kids using their imagination this summer. While this whimsical tour is bringing a pop-up funhouse experience to specific cities nationwide, you can get in on the excitement regardless of where you live. To help you make your own house a funhouse, the Mother’s Cookies website is hosting a library of games, crafts and recipes for cookie-inspired fun all summer long, and is sharing the instructions for a few of the coolest featured summer activities here:
Tasty Tic Tac Toe
Materials:
• Card stock paper (light pink)
• Glitter paper (purple)
• Scissors
• Glue
• Mother’s Cookies
Instructions:
1. Start with a square-shaped piece of paper as your board (preferably 8.5 x 8.5 inches).
2. Cut out four 4.5 x 8.5 inch strips of glitter paper.
3. Glue the strips onto the cardstock paper to create a tic tac toe board grid.
How to Play:
To play this frosted spin on a classic game, use pink and white Mother’s Cookies as your Xs and Os and try to get three in a row.
Unicorn Dream Catcher
Materials:
• Cardboard
• Black permanent marker
• Foam (white)
• Glitter paper (gold)
• Felt (light pink)
• Yarn (cream, light purple, dark purple and light pink)
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Bowl (approximately 4.5 inches and 4 inches in diameter, or use a bigger bowl if you want a larger-sized dream catcher)
Instructions:
1. Trace the larger bowl using a black permanent marker on cardboard. Then trace the smaller bowl inside the larger bowl and cut out the inner circle. Repeat this step so you have two cutouts of the hoop.
2. Glue the hoops together so it forms one thick hoop.
3. Glue a piece of light purple yarn onto the hoop, then wrap the yarn until it fully covers the hoop.
4. With your first yarn color, cut out eight 18-inch pieces. Repeat this step with the three other colors.
5. Tie the pieces on the lower part of the hoop. Choose a color to start with, then tie a knot around the hoop with your single yarn string so it dangles evenly. Repeat with the remaining yarn colors.
6. To begin the web on the inside of the inner circle, cut 12-inch pieces of yarn colors of your choice. Then glue each piece across the hoop in various directions. You can use as many pieces as you like until you get your desired look.
7. Draw a triangle shape on the glitter paper. Cut it out to create the horn.
8. Draw two ear shapes on your foam board and cut them out.
9. Take your light pink felt and draw two slightly smaller ear shapes than your white foam ears. These will be your inner ears.
10. Glue the pink felt inner ears to each of the white ear shapes. Then, glue the whole ears to the dream catcher to surround the horn.
11. To form the hanging loop, cut a 4-inch piece of dark purple string and create a loop by gluing the ends of the string together behind the backside of the unicorn catcher.
Remember for all activities to always have adult supervision when using a hot glue gun and scissors, or stick to child-safe tools.
For more cookie-inspired crafting, playing and baking activities for kids, visit motherscookies.com/funideas.
With just a few supplies, your family can make meaningful memories and celebrate fun and creativity all summer long.
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