It’s edible. So you get the full joy of creating, the time shared working together, and then . . . you eat it.

Just make rice-krispie treats and shape them into balls. I go heavier on the cereal in the cereal to marshmallow ratio so they won’t be quite as sticky.

Put icing (I use store-bought) in a sandwich bag and poke or cut a hole in the corner so it can be used like a pastry bag. The bags I got had the expandable bottom, so it worked better for me to just poke a hole into the bag because when I tried to cut the corner, it would squeeze out of two places. (The above picture is me holding the bag. It is not a marshmallow.)

Use the icing like glue to put on Twizzlers (the string kind) and candy and decorate it like an ornament.

Ooh and aah and take a few pictures.

Eat it.

I think I found this in Family Fun Magazine last year. It said to use popcorn balls, and last year I did. Rice krispie treats are MUCH easier!

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I love these. I generally don’t consider myself a crafty person, but these make me feel crafty. I learned how to make them about 5 years ago, and now it’s a definite tradition. I know that many families give an ornament to each child every year. These have become our version of that, and they […]