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15 Fun 4th of July Crafts Your Kids Will Love

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15 Fun 4th of July Crafts Your Kids Will Love One of the best things about the 4th of July is the time that you get to spend with your family celebrating Independence Day with 4th of July crafts, food, and fireworks. Every year my kids and I prepare for the 4th by putting together a list of fun patriotic activities that they want to do the most. Of course, my kids usually go straight for the 4th of July DIY accessories that they can wear to our annual red, white, and blue bash. This year my daughter insists upon making the  Patriotic Firecracker Tie Dye T-Shirt to wear to the party. Lately, she has been all about the tie dye shirt activities. It’s such an adorable shirt that it made the kids’ crafts list immediately.

I love kids’ crafts like these because they are all so simple and inexpensive. My kids can do most of these crafts by themselves, which I find they enjoy even more because they like to make crafts and then surprise me when they’re finished.

 

DIY Accessories for the 4th of July

Firework Tops for the FourthMake your 4th of July party a blast with these adorable accessories that your kids can make and wear to show their patriotism. Your kids can glam up their outfit with the Rockets’ Red Glare Bracelet, or they can add a burst of red, white, and blue to their attire with Firework Tops for the Fourth.

4th of July Dessert Recipes

American Flag PretzelsYou can add a blast of fun and color to your party desserts with these yummy 4th of July dessert recipes. These recipes are great to make with your kids because they’re so simple. My kids absolutely love it when we make the Fourth of July Fruit Flag Cake. They enjoy arranging the fruit on the cake to make it look like the American flag.

More 4th of July Crafts for Kids

Confetti Popper RocketsOne of the biggest parts of a 4th of July party is being outside, so why not let your kids create beautiful lighting with Fourth of July Luminaries? These gorgeous lanterns will give your outdoor party the spark that it needs, and your guests will enjoy the personal touch that your kids made to the party with their Fourth of July crafts.

 

 

 

You can never have enough red, white, and blue fun with your kids. If you’re always looking for more 4th of July crafts for your kids like I am, then download your free copy of 21 American Craft Projects: Patriotic Crafts for Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and 4th of July Crafts for Kids free eBook. There are tons of adorable Fourth of July crafts that your kids will love!

 

 

 

How are you celebrating the 4th with your little ones?

Surf’s Up! Take Your PEEPS To the Beach

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This tutorial is brought to you by Maria Del Pinto.

Create a fun edible Easter craft by adding some PEEPS to your favorite pudding dish.

Materials:

  • Peeps Marshmallow Bunnies
  • Wilton’s Candy Melts
  • Keebler Vienna Fingers Cookies
  • White pudding (store bought or homemade)
  • Blue Food Coloring

 

Prepare your favorite pudding recipe (or store bought pudding) and add blue food coloring and stir until you get a nice shade of blue.  Place aside.

Crush 3 Vienna Fingers and place at the bottom of glass cup or bowl.  Then top with the pudding.

Place a few candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and heat for about 30 seconds to 45 seconds (amount of time may vary).  Take two of the Peeps Bunnies and use the candy melt to adhere a third to the top of the two.  Allow candy to harden.

Use a Vienna Finger cookie for a surfboard.  Reheat the left over candy melts to put some onto the Vienna Finger cookie and adhere the stack of bunnies to it. Allow candy to harden.

Place the Surfing Bunnies onto the top of the blue pudding to create a fun dessert.

 

Note:

  • An alternate ideas is to decorate the bunnies with Candy Melts in different colors to create swimsuits and place them directly into the pudding to look like they are sitting in a Jacuzzi.

Eat, Craft, Repeat – Celebrate Easter With PEEPS

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This tutorial is brought to you by Maria del Pinto.

Here is a super quick and easy portable Easter treat for your celebrations.

Materials:

  • Peeps Dark Chocolate Dipped Chicks
  • Cake Sprinkles
  • White Icing (store-bought or homemade)
  • Cake Mix (plus water, eggs, and vegetable oil)
  • Flat-Bottomed Ice Cream Cones
  • Cupcake Pan

Preheat your oven. Take the cones and place them standing up in each slot on the cupcake pan. Then using mix together the cake mix ingredients. Pour the batter into each of the cones until the cones are around 3/4 full.  Bake the batter and cones as you would cupcakes.  Once they are baked, allow them to cool.

Take each cone and frost it with white frosting.  Place the Dark Chocolate Dipped Peeps in the top center of the cone.  To finish, decorate around the Peeps Chick with the Wilton Sprinkles.

Stick It: Make Creative Candy Pops For Valentine’s Day

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This tutorial is brought to you by Maria del Pinto.

These adorable candy pops are one of my favorite Valentine’s Day treats because they’re easy to make and sweet to eat. Bring a little sweet indulgence to your Valentine’s Day fun by making these great no-bake Valentine Marshmallow Peeps Candy Pops.

Materials:

  • Peeps Strawberry Crème Marshmallow Hearts.
  • Peeps Dark Chocolate Covered Raspberry Heart shaped marshmallow
  • Peeps Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Crème Flavored Chicks.
  • White Chocolate Candy Melts or Wilton’s candy melts
  • Brach’s Conversation Hearts
  • Lollipop sticks
  • Cello bags
  • Heat safe bowl
  • Skewer
  • Plastic baggy or other container to melt chocolate in

Instructions:

Place the Peeps Marshmallow hearts and chick on some parchment. Take each Peep and use a skewer to make a hole big enough to put the lollipop sticks into. Then insert skewers into the hearts and chick.

Boil some water and place in glass measuring cup. Place a small amount of white chocolate in the plastic baggy and seal tight. Place in the hot water until it melts.

Then cut the tip off the plastic baggy and use it as a piping bag by squeezing it to drizzle the chocolate onto the Peeps Marshmallow Hearts to personalize them with a name or a word. If you want to secure the lollipop sticks, then use a bit of the melted chocolate to secure the sticks. Place aside and to allow chocolate to harden.

Once chocolate has hardened, you can place the candy pops into individual cello bags to gift them or display them on a cake pop holder.

 

What’s the best Valentine’s Day gift you’ve ever received?

 

Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth & Make This Edible Valentine’s Day Craft

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This tutorial is brought to you by Maria del Pinto.

What goes together better than chocolate and marshmallows?! Say “I Love You!” with fun DIY Heart Shaped Peeps and added brownie to your treat.

Supplies You’ll Need:

  • Peeps Strawberry Crème Marshmallow Hearts
  • Brach’s Heartlines Conversation Hearts
  • Duncan Hines Chewy Fudge Brownie Mix
  • White Chocolate Candy Melts
  • Heart Shaped Cookie Cutters
  • Parchment or wax paper
  • Plastic baggy

 

Prepare and bake brownies in a 10” x 10” pan, according to the manufacturers directions.  Allow brownies to cool.

Place the Peeps Marshmallow hearts onto a piece of parchment or wax paper. Boil some water and place in heat resistant container.  Place a small amount of the white chocolate candy melts in the plastic baggy and seal tight.

Place in the hot water until it melts then remove.

Then cut the tip off the plastic baggy and use it as a piping bag by squeezing it to drizzle the chocolate or to personalize the Peeps Marshmallow Hearts with words. Place aside and to allow chocolate to harden. Don’t be afraid to use the hearts without any personalization.  I think they are really cute plain too.

Then cut the brownies into 4” x 4” pieces.  Take a heart shaped cookie cutter in approximately the same size as the Peeps Heart and cut out the center of the
brownie.  Remove the center and replace with the Peeps Marshmallow Heart.

To finish the Brownie, you can personalize the brownie by adding more candy hearts, dusting it with white sugar, or by drizzling it with the white chocolate.

 

What’s your favorite Valentine’s Day treat?

 

Give a Homemade Valentine’s Day Gift Box & Spread Some Love

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This tutorial is brought to you by Maria Del Pinto.

You don’t need sugar to celebrate being a romantic at heart. Make this darling Sugar Free Peeps gift to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Candy Decorating Supplies:

  • Peeps Sugar-Free Marshmallow Hearts
  • Sugar-Free White Chocolate Block
  • Plastic Wrap
  • Plastic Baggy
  • Wax paper or parchment paper

Box Supplies:

  • Card Stock
  • Assorted Embellishment
  • Duck Brand Glitter Crafting Tape in red
  • Aleene’s Tacky Glue
  • Martha Stewart Daisy Field Punch
  • Scissors

 

Boil some water and place in glass measuring cup.  Place a small amount of chopped-up sugar-free white chocolate in the plastic baggy and seal tight.  Place in the hot water until it melts.

Then cut the tip off the plastic baggy and use it as a piping bag by squeezing it to drizzle the chocolate or to personalize the Peeps Marshmallow Hearts with a name or a word.  Note: You may want to practice on a piece of parchment.   Place aside and to allow chocolate to harden.

Measure the circumference of the Peeps Sugar-Free Marshmallow Heart box. Add an inch for overlap and then cut a piece of card stock to fit.  Mine was  8-1/2” by 6-1/2”.

Cut strips of the Red Glitter Duck Tape to cover the cardstock.

Place the Duck Tape covered card stock onto the Daisy Field Punch base, align the punch and then punch down.  Move the card stock and align using the preset markings and punch two more times.

Once you have punched out the images, then fold the card stock to fit around the Peeps Plastic packaging base and glue to overlapping edges together.  Decorate the cover with the embellishments of your choice.  Finish by inserting the plastic tray in the finished cover.

 

What Valentine’s Day crafts are you making this year?

 

More Delicious DIY: Skiing PEEPS® Snowman Cupcake Toppers

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This project is brought to your by Maria Del Pinto.

Here is a fun holiday luncheon table decor craft that doubles as a sweet dessert. This project featured a cute Christmas holiday snowman PEEPS® treat.

Materials:

  • PEEPS® Snowman
  • Two small candy canes (6” length)
  • 1-inch piece of a candy cane
  • Royal icing (white)
  • Icing piping bag and tip
  • Assorted Christmas candy sprinkles
  • Store-bought or homemade cupcake with white icing

Instructions:

Using your favorite royal icing recipe (or purchase pre-mixed royal icing at a cake supply store), mix up the royal icing.   Place the icing in piping bags to use to build the skis for the snowman.

Using a piping bag, draw a line of white royal icing on one side of each of the six-inch candy canes.

Then attach the one-inch piece of candy cane between the two six-inch candy canes. Allow icing to harden.

Once the icing has dried, take the PEEPS®  snowman and using the royal icing, attach it to the one-inch piece of candy cane. Use a small Dixie Cup to hold the snowman in place until the icing dries.

Then using the candy sprinkles, decorate the icing on the cupcake.

Carefully place the PEEPS® Skiing Santa onto the cupcake.  Make sure to press it into the icing so that it will stay in place.

 

For more PEEPS® recipes, crafts and other fun holiday ideas, visit www.Facebook.com/PeepsBrand/adventcalendar

Delicious DIY: Use PEEPS® to Make a Christmas Candy Sleigh

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This project is brought to your by Maria Del Pinto.

Here is a fun and easy way to share the holiday spirit with friends and family. This project features adorable Christmas holiday PEEPS® treats on a candy sleigh.

Materials:

  • PEEPS® (Gingerbread Man and Reindeer)
  • Two Candy Canes
  • Rice Krispies square
  • Skittles
  • Royal icing (white and red)
  • Icing piping bags and tips
  • Assorted Christmas Candy

Instructions:

Using your favorite royal icing recipe (or purchase pre-mixed at cake supply store), mix up the royal icing.  Split batch in half and add red food coloring to one batch and mix.   Place the icing in piping bags to use to build and decorate the sleigh.  If you have egg sensitivities, you may wish to use melted white chocolate instead (make sure to follow manufacturers direction to properly melt chocolate).

Before starting, make sure to unwrap all the candy to make the decorating process faster. Then using a piping bag, draw two lines of white royal icing on the rice crispy square.  Lay the two candy canes on top of the Rice Krispies square equally spaced to create the base of the sleigh. Allow icing to dry.

Once the icing has dried, turn the base over. Tthe Rice Krispies square should be facing up. Take the PEEPS® Reindeer and using the red royal icing, attach a red skittle to his nose to make it bigger.  Allow to dry.

Take the PEEPS® Gingerbread Man and using both colors of the royal icing, add a few candy accents to add color to him.  Use the red icing to make a line at his feet and hands.  Don’t forget to put a little red icing on his mouth so you can see his smile.  Once the icing dries, poke a toothpick into him to help support him (and hold him in place) when you put him onto the sleigh.

Using the two colors of royal icing, begin to attach some of the Christmas candy to decorate the sleigh. To finish, use the icing to attach the PEEPS® Reindeer to the front of the sleigh.

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Make sure to leave room for the PEEPS® Gingerbread man at the top of the sleigh. Remove the toothpick from the PEEPS® Gingerbread man.  Use the toothpick to carefully push through the candy bar into the Rice Krispie square.

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For more PEEPS® recipes, crafts and other fun holiday ideas visit www.Facebook.com/PeepsBrand/adventcalendar

A Year’s Worth of Cupcakes!

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What’s better than a cupcake?  Another cupcake!  Enjoy a year’s worth of cupcakes with these 12 delicious cupcake recipes.  Great for all kinds of holidays and occasions, these recipes are guaranteed crowd-pleasers and are perfect for helping you celebrate whatever season you happen to be in.

Baking cupcakes with your kids is a fun and creative way to use your imagination in the kitchen.  Kids will take such pleasure in seeing their creations come to life, and giving kids the freedom to create in the kitchen is a great segway into teaching kids about other types of crafting hobbies, such as clay crafts, decoupaging, mixed media art, and so much more!

Even if you don’t have little helping hands, you can always use cupcakes as a creative canvas for expressing your own creativity.  Adding coloring to frosting, creating your own edible embellishments and flowers, and turning everyday candies into amazing and artistic designs are tasks that can only improve your creative mind.  And if you mess up, well, I guess you’ll just have to eat the evidence!

Baking and cake decorating are great creative outlets for anyone who likes to think outside the box, and with this collection of cupcakes, you’ll have creative inspiration all year long!

cupcake_decorating_labBonus!  Want to learn how to create your own bakery-style cupcakes?  We’re giving away a copy of Cupcake Decorating Lab to one lucky winner!  Scroll down for all the info, and find out how you can enter to win this book today!

 

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January:  Mouthwatering Banana Split Cupcakes

February:  Raspberry Filled White Chocolate Buttercream Cupcakes

March:  Rainbow Cupcakes

April:  Yummy Tree Cupcakes

May:  Floral Shower Cupcakes

June:  Crabby Cupcakes

July:  Cherry Limeade Cupcakes

August:  Despicable Me Twinkie Minion Cupcakes

September:  Campfire Cupcakes

October:  Skeleton Cupcakes

November:  Wide Eyed Owl Cupcakes

December:  Christmas Tree Cupcakes

 

Bonus!

cupcake_decorating_labHave you always wanted to learn how to decorate your own cupcakes?  Well, now you can!  Enter now for your chance to win Cupcake Decorating Lab, filled with awesome tutorials and lessons on how to make your own frosting, decorate your cupcakes, and create bakery-level treats that kids and adults of all ages are sure to love and appreciate.  But you better hurry, the giveaway ends November 15th!  Head on over to the giveaway page now and enter to win today!  Good luck!

Time for Turkey! Edible Crafts and Recipes for Thanksgiving

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Turkey Day is almost here, and while we usually to stick to crafting at AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com, we have to have food on the brain! Take a look at some of our favorite recipes for Thanksgiving, and make your pick. From sauces to savory, we’ve got those taste buds covered. And don’t worry if you have a crafty relapse during your recipe, we’ve also included a few crafty creations that you can eat! What better way to craft for the biggest food holiday of the year than making ones you can eat?

Thanksgiving Recipes for Sauces

Zippy Cranberry SauceCitrus Cranberry SauceCranberry Sauce with Raspberry Vinegar

Thanksgiving just isn’t Thanksgiving without a delicious sauce. Whether it’s for pouring over the turkey or just pouring straight into your mouth, a good sauce can make the entire Thanksgiving meal. These Thanksgiving recipes for sauces are simple, easy, and totally tasty.

Zippy Cranberry Sauce

Citrus Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce with Raspberry Vinegar

 

Savory Thanksgiving Recipes

ImageImageCream of Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Thanksgiving may very well be the most yummy holiday of the year. It’s essential that every dish served at the Thanksgiving meal be made to perfection. These savory Thanksgiving recipes will steal the show. They’re easy to make, they take very little time, and they will absolutely bring the “Wow!” factor to your dinner table.

Auntie’s Favorite Stuffing

Cornbread Stuffed Roast Turkey

Cream of Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

 

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

Fast and Fun Turkey CookiesEdible Indian Corn on a StickColorful Gumdrop Turkeys

If you find pies and cakes a little daunting, these quick and easy Thanksgiving dessert recipes are perfect for you. With these recipes, the kids can get involved and use their creativity to help you make dessert. Saving room for dessert is never a question and these dessert recipes will surely hit the spot.

Fast and Fun  Turkey Cookies

Edible Indian Corn on a Stick

Colorful Gumdrop Turkeys

 

 Which Thanksgiving treat are you most thankful for?

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