The other day I prepped some Marshmallow people for a Sunday School class and as they were a huge success with the older kids I thought I'd try them out at home with our boys for a bit of 'no bake' cooking.
I made two types of marshmallow people, the first are taken from a blog called Color me Katie and hers are amazing, super artistic and fun. Mine were considerably less artistic, but hopefully just as fun! I drew the faces onto the marshmallows with an edible ink pen that I bought in Hobbycraft.
If you're not sure what I mean this is a similar product from Amazon - basically food colouring in a pen (this picture is an affiliate link)
The other type used three marshmallows for each pushed onto a skewer and then decorated. The ideas for these came from T.Y.L Creations. I used a little icing and sprinkles for the hair, drew a face with the edible pen and used various sweets etc to decorate.
I showed my examples to the boys then let them create their own. All three boys did this activity, but Little Dude (19mths) didn't get it, he just took the marshmallows and stuffed them straight in his mouth then got down and played!! The older two (3 and nearly 5) asked to use the skewers and set about decorating.
Champ mostly drew straight onto the marshmallows.
Whilst Bud drew a face then added an entire strawberry lace for clothes, some sprinkles for hair and...
....... two giant chocolate sticks for legs. Both boys then really enjoyed eating their art work!
Not one to do everyday as let's face it I just gave them a snack of sugar and topped it off by decorating it with more sugar! But, fun for a treat every now and then.
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Those are some pretty cute people! lol Thanks for sharing at Mom's Library!
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DeleteI gotta get me some food pens! This would probably work on tortillas too :) please come share this on our #kidsinthekitchen linky http://lookwhatmomfound.com/2013/05/homemade-versus-store-bought-kidsinthekitchen.html
ReplyDeleteI love these...and love how involved the boys got...so sweet, can't wait to try with my twins! Featuring on my Kid's C0-Op post this week too! http://mummymusingsandmayhem.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/weekly-kids-co-op-toddler-food-finds.html
ReplyDeleteOh, how fun!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
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