{"id":6761,"date":"2016-11-14T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:30","slug":"diy-christmas-gift-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/diy-christmas-gift-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bake and Make Christmas Gifts with Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bake Cookies and make Gift Tags with your kids. Give to your friends and family this Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We enjoy making and baking together all through the year. But there is something special about sitting down together to prepare for Christmas.\u00a0We have already made a start on our Christmas Cards and made a few new Baubles<\/a> for our Christmas Tree.<\/p>\n

Now ‘s time to start thinking about our Christmas baking priorities (we HAVE to make a Gingerbread House this year!) and our DIY Christmas Gifts<\/a>. This year we are planning to give DIY Christmas Cookie Decorating Kits, so we gave them a test run just to make sure they were going to be yummy enough.<\/p>\n

Baking Christmas Cookies<\/h2>\n

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Baking can go one of two ways in our house. All the kids behave beautifully taking turns to do each job or it descends into chaos when I can’t remember whose turn it is to crack the eggs! Not be deterred though, I persevere as baking is such an important skill to teach your kids (and a firm favorite from my own childhood). And any arugments are soon forgotten once they are all tucking into the tasty treats at the end of the session.<\/p>\n

Thankfully this session ran really well. I moved down \u00a0to the kitchen table with them, where we had lots of room to spread out, rather than all cramming around the counter top.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n