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COOKIE THEME

CRAFTS:

Cookie Monster
Give each child two blue pom-poms and googly eyes. To make a cookie monster, they must glue the pom-poms onto a straw, popsicle stick or stir stick. Glue the eyes to the top pom-pom. Next, give each child a toilet paper roll (or half of a paper towel roll) and ask them to decorate it like a cookie jar. They can draw cookies or cut out chocolate chip cookies from brown construction paper. Glue these onto the tube. Help them spell out the word “COOKIES” around the top of the tube. Poke the cookie monster up through the tube. He’s now peeking out of the cookie jar!

Decorate Cookies
Provide the kids with cupcakes, shortbread or gingerbread cookies. Give each child a small yogurt container with white icing in it. Also provide food colouring so they can tint their icing and make decorations on their cookies. Provide some candies and licorice as well. After the children have admired all the cookies (feasting their eyes) let them feast their stomachs.

Decorate Cookies 2
Materials:  cupcakes, shortbread or gingerbread cookies, container, food colouring, white icing, candies
What to Do:  Provide the Children with cupcakes, and shortbread or gingerbread cookies.  Give each Beaver a small yogurt container with white icing in it, and provide food colouring so they can tint their icing, and make decorations on their cookies.  Provide some candies and licorice as well.  After all the cookies have been admired, let the Children eat them.

Fortune Cookies
Ingredients:  250 ml cake flour, 50 ml corn starch, 125 ml sugar, dash of salt, egg whites from 3 large eggs, 125 ml vegetable oil, 50 ml water, 2 ml lemon extract
What to Do:  Sift together flour, corn starch, sugar and salt into a bowl.  Blend egg whites and vegetable oil and add to the dry ingredients.  Mix until smooth.  Add water and lemon extract.  Lightly oil a cookie sheet and drop four rounded spoonfuls of batter onto the sheet at a time.  Spread each to a circle about 7 cm across.  Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit until light brown (about five minutes).  While they are still warm, fold each circle in half across a "fortune."  Set aside to cool and crisp.
 
 

GAMES & ACTIVITIES:

Cookie Jar Guess 
Fill a large, clear container with cookies in a variety of shapes. Ask the kids to guess how many cookies are in the jar. Let them write down their ‘guestimate’ on paper cut out in the shape of cookies. At the end of the meeting, count the cookies together and divide the cookies among the kids.

Cookie Swap
Ask the kids at the previous meeting to bring four or six cookies wrapped up on a plate. Collect the cookies and put in a pile. During the meeting, share the cookies in all groups. If group leaders feel their the kids have eaten enough cookies that night, the children can take home a special treat for their family.

Cookie Catch
Tie cookies to a string and suspend them. Using only their mouths, your the kids must catch their own cookies. After they catch it, they get to eat it!
 

SONGS:

Cookie Song
(Tune: Three Blind Mice)
Chocolate chip cookies
Peanut butter cookies
We love them all
We love them all
We eat them up with a yum, yum, yum
They feel so good in the tum, tum, tum
They’re even better than bubble gum.
Hooray for cookies!!
 

STORIES:

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FOOD SUGGESTIONS:

How about..... Cookies!!!!!
 

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