Chocolate Sparklers

Chocolate fingers

Hundreds of Thousands

Icing sugar

Water

To create this fun activity for bonfire night all that is needed to do is to mix the icing sugar with the water to the desired consistency and then to dip the end of the chocolate finger in it. Finally, dip the chocolate finger into the sprinkles of your choice.

Snow Paint

Shaving Cream

PVA Glue

Peppermint extract

Iridescent Glitter

You will want to begin by popping your shaving cream and glue in the refrigerator. left ours there overnight and then made our paint the next morning. We left our glue out on the counter for about ten minutes just to get it flowing.

Mix equal parts of glue and shaving cream in a bowl. is a rough estimate; we always free pour. in glitter. a few drops of peppermint extract and mix. finish the paint off with more glitter.

Sand Foam

3 cups sand

1 can shaving foam

Mix until you get a desired consistency.

Christmas Biscuits

1 Half-covered chocolate digestive

1 plain digestive

Water

Icing sugar

Red & Green food colouring/ gel-pens

Paper towels

Marshmallows

Chocolate buttons

White/milk chocolate chips

Chocolate sprinkles

Chocolate balls

Add  water slowly and carefully to get the desired thickness of royal icing, if you have bought  food colouring for the red and green icing separate the icing into 3 bowls and add the food colouring to one of the three portions.

Melted Snowmen

To create the look of a melted snowman, first use the white royal icing to make a puddle on the plain digestive biscuit. Then apply a large marshmallow to the middle of the puddle. Then add a spot of icing to attach a chocolate button and add a single chocolate chip to the top of that. To finish off the snowman finally add a white chocolate chip for the nose, add 2 chocolate balls for the eyes and chocolate sprinkles for the arms.

Christmas Puddings

To create the Christmas pudding use the half covered chocolate digestive biscuit (It doesn't matter whether they are milk chocolate or dark chocolate). To start the biscuit off apply some white royal icing to the top of the biscuit, and make it look like it is running down the biscuit. Then to finish off the biscuit apply dots of red food colouring for the holly berries and some green food colouring for the holly leaves.

Chocolate Truffle Hedgehogs

50g butter/hard margarine

50g cocoa powder

100g icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

Press all the ingredients together with the back of a spoon, this takes a while but eventually the mixture comes together and gradually changes colour. Then add the flavouring. Roll a small amount of the mixture into a ball and then pinch a nose shape in one side of the ball. Flatten the bottom of the ball by gently pressing down onto a flat surface. Using chocolate buttons cut into quarters push the rounded end of the buttons into the truffle leaving the spiky ends protruding to give the effect of spines. Small broken bits of chocolate can be used for eyes and the end of the nose.

Place in the fridge to cool. (Preferably overnight).

Gingerbread Playdough

1 cup flour

½ cup salt

2 tsp cream of tartar

1 cup water

1 tsp vegetable oil

Cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, etc.

Mix the dry ingredients. Play with the spices till you get the scent you want and the colour. Mix water and oil together first and then add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pan and clump together. Take dough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.

Chocolate Playdough

2 cups water

½ cup salt

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

2 tbsp. cream of tartar

1/3 cup cocoa

3 cups flour

Bring the water and salt to the boil.

Stir in remaining ingredients.

Allow to cool slightly.

Knead until smooth.

Cloud Playdough

8 cups plain flour

1 cup baby oil

Mix until both ingredients are combined.

Bubble Playdough

1 cup corn flour

¼ cup washing up liquid

Just mix to create tough but

malleable dough that can be cleaned

up easily and it smells great.

Elastic Playdough

1 ½ kilos of white self-raising flour

500ml water

Knead ingredients together until smooth and stretchy.

Microwave Playdough

200g plain flour

100g salt

2 tsp cream of tartar

1 tbsp. oil

300ml water

Food colouring (add to water)

Put all ingredients into a bowl suitable for the microwave. Cook at full power of 1 minute. Remove from microwave and stir well. Put back in microwave and cook for a further 1 - 1½ minutes. Remove from microwave and scrape out with a wooden spoon and leave to cool. Knead well, adding food colouring at this point. Store in a polythene bag to remain soft.

Cooked Playdough

200g plain flour

100g salt

1 tbsp. cooking oil

2 tsp cream of tartar

300ml water

Food colouring

Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar together in a big saucepan. Add water gradually to remove lumps (Food colouring can be added to water or left to the end when you knead the dough). Put the pan over a low to medium heat and cook, stirring constantly (It is hard work!). The mixture will suddenly begin to thicken. Continue stirring until the dough becomes very stiff. Remove pan from the heat. Scrape out dough on to a smooth surface. Soak pan immediately. Knead but take care – dough will be very hot in the centre.

Basic Playdough

2 cups plain flour
1 cup salt
1 tbsp. cooking oil

Add water gradually to dough consistently.

This dough can also be used for modelling and then placed in a very low oven to dry for at least 12 hours.

This dough is firm, pliable and smooth. May need a little flour to stop it sticking.