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Do It Yourself Mod Podge

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Supplies

  • Jar with lid (canning jar, empty peanut butter jar, pickle jar, etc)
  • Elmers Glue
  • Water

 

Directions

  1. Empty glue into your container
  2. Fill empty glue bottle with water, shake, and pour into your container
  3. Place lid on your container and tighten.  Shake until glue and water is mixed

You now have a cheap, easy to make alternative to Mod Podge!

 

Veggie Tree

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Vegetable Christmas Tree

Supplies

  • Styrofoam cone
  • Plastic wrap
  • Toothpicks
  • Cucumbers
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Block of cheddar cheese

Directions

  1. Cover Styrofoam cone with plastic wrap
  2.  Cut cucumbers and cheddar cheese into triangles
  3. Using toothpicks, attach cucumbers to Styrofoam (you can push the toothpicks in so they can’t be seen, or leave the ends stick out for easy removal)
  4. Fill in gaps with tomatoes and cheese to give the appearance of ornaments

You can add any type of vegetable you like or even substitute fruit for the vegetables!

This makes a great center piece to surround with black olive penguins!

Black Olive Penguins

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Black Olive Penguins

Supplies

  •  1 Can jumbo pitted black olives
  • 1 Can medium pitted black olives
  • 1 Bag whole carrots, peeled
  • 1 Container softened cream cheese
  • Toothpicks

Directions

  1.  Slice a carrot giving you circles to use for the base
  2. Cut a small triangle out of each carrot circle (save triangles)
  3. Cut the tips off of your triangle carrot cut outs to use for the penguins nose
  4. Carefully cut your jumbo olives from top to bottom on one side
  5. Using a butter knife, fill your sliced jumbo olives with cream cheese being careful not to tear them
  6. Assemble your penguin!
    * Place carrot circle with removed triangle part facing forward
    *On top of that put a  filled jumbo olive (cut should be up and down)
    *Then top with medium olive (cross side toward the front)
    *Place a toothpick from the top down in the center of your penguin to hold it all together
  7. Insert small carrot tips into the cross on the medium olive for your penguins nose 
  8. Arrange on a platter for a healthy holiday treat!

For a cute display, arrange penguins around a Veggie Christmas Tree!

Hershey Kiss Mice Ornament

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Hershey Kiss Mice Ornaments

Supplies

  • 1 Bag  original Hershey Kisses
  • 1 Bag mini googly eyes
  • 1 Sheet of pink felt or craft foam
  • 1 Roll silver (or color of your choice) cord for hanging
  • Hot glue gun

Directions 

  1. Cut half circles out for the mice ears
  2. Cut cord to desired length for hanging your ornament
  3. Carefully remove the paper tag from half of your Hershey kisses (these will be for the face)
  4. Cover the bottom of one Hershey Kiss (with no tag) with glue
  5. Attach two ears and your cord on the outside of ears
  6. Attach another Hershey Kiss (with tag) to the bottom of the one you just added ears to  (bottoms should be glued together and the paper tag becomes the mouses tail)
  7. Glue 2 googly eyes onto the Hershey Kiss with no tag
  8. Hang on your Christmas tree!

Santa Letter

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Free Personalized Letter From Santa!

Head on over here to create your very own personalized letter from Santa!  Once you have made your very own letter, they will send you an email  so you can download and print your letter!

If you would prefer the letter come in the mail to your child, you can pay a small fee of $1.99.  With this price you will receive:

  • Personalized Santa Letter
  • Personalized Nice List Certificate
  • Personalized Envelope
  • Personalized Photo of Santa

Holiday Toffee Candy

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Holiday Toffee Candy

Ingredients

  • — Plain or Butter Flavored Crackers (Saltines, Ritz, Keebler Club Crackers — any of them will work)
  • — 1 cup butter (salted or unsalted, your choice)
  • — 1 cup packed brown sugar
  •  — 6 tbsp. creamy peanut butter
  • — 2-1/2 cups chocolate chips of your choice (milk, semisweet or white)
  • — Assorted candies, chopped nuts or holiday sprinkles for decorating (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Coat a large cookie sheet WELL with nonstick spray and line cookie tray with crackers, breaking some into pieces to fit any small gaps. 
  3. Combine butter and brown sugar in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Once at a boil, let it continue to boil, without stirring, for 3 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat and spread mixture over crackers (it will be a little thick and slightly hard to spread).
  5. Place tray in oven and bake for 5 minutes. While crackers are baking, melt peanut butter on the stove top over medium-low heat in a large saucepan.
  6. Once mostly melted, add chocolate chips and continue to melt mixture until thoroughly combined.
  7. Remove tray from oven and spread chocolate over cracker/toffee layer.
  8. Top with candies, nuts or sprinkles as you like.
  9. Refrigerate or freeze tray for 1-2 hours until candy has completely chilled through.
  10. Cut or break chilled candy into whatever size pieces you like. Store candy in an airtight container in refrigerator until ready to plate and serve.

**NOTES: This recipe can also be made with crushed pretzels or layered pretzel thins, but the toffee is much harder to spread over the pretzels. Also, if you desire a thinner chocolate layer, the chocolate chips can be reduced by about a cup and the peanut butter reduced by 2 tbsp.***

Simple at Home S’Mores Treats

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Ingredients

  • One bag jumbo marshmallows (regular size would work if you prefer)
  • One bag milk chocolate melts
  • Graham cracker crumbs (I used a box of graham cracker pie crust mix)

 

Directions

  1. Melt chocolate discs as directed on package (usually low heat setting 10 seconds at a time, stirring between heat cycles).
  2. Dip bottom half of marshmallow in melted chocolate, letting the excess drip off.
  3. Immediately dip the chocolate covered portion of the marshmallow in graham cracker crumbs.
  4. Place marshmallow graham cracker side down on wax paper and allow chocolate to harden.

For a tasty Christmas treat, replace the graham cracker crumbs with crushed peppermint candy canes!

Ivory Experiment

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Ivory Soap Experiment

Ever wonder what would happen if you put bar soap in the microwave?  Wonder no more!!

Items Needed

  • Ivory Bar Soap
  • Microwave safe bowl

 Directions

  1. Unwrap one bar of soap and place in microwave safe bowl
  2. Place bowl in microwave, set for 3 minutes and start
  3. Watch as the soap expands (stop microwave when soap reaches top edge of the bowl)
  4. Take out of the microwave and discover the texture changes!

    The kids will LOVE seeing how the soap changes and your kitchen will smell great!  Don’t worry, your food will NOT taste like soap next time you use your microwave and you can still use your soap 🙂

Skittle Shots (Alcohol Beverage)

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SKITTLE SHOTS

(ADULT ONLY Alcohol Beverage)

Ingredients

  • 6 Mason Jars
  • 3 Large bags of Skittles
  • 1 Large bottle of Vodka (any brand)
  • Coffee filters

Instructions

  1. Separate Skittles by color
  2. Fill each mason jar half to three quarters full with each flavor (or combination if you choose) of Skittle.
  3. Fill jar with vodka of your choice
  4. Cover and shake gently.
  5. Let jars sit 12-24 hours until Skittles are dissolved.  (shaking every few hours will speed up this process.)
  6. After skittles are dissolved, strain your vodka slowly through a coffee filter to remove sugary residue.  (You may need to rinse your coffee filter a few times during this process so it does not clog)
  7.  Chill and enjoy!

These make fabulous, inexpensive holiday gifts!

Another variation I have tried is using peppermint candy canes instead of the skittles.  You will not need to strain the vodka if you use candy canes.  Hang a candy cane from the bottle and it is set to give as a gift.  It tastes GREAT mixed with hot chocolate!

 

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