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This chocolate Yule log cake isn't really a cake! It's a candy container made to order for our family's play room. Above you can see that the painted, plastic lid is on the tray and the peppermint candies are falling out from the inside of my candy container on the right.         When my children were little, we often baked a special Christmas birthday cake for Jesus. Sometimes it would be fashioned into a tree or a yule log. One year, the birthday cake even resembled an entire forest of pines, dusted with powdered sugar.        Parents and/or Teachers can help their young ones shape a candy container made to look like a chocolate yule log cake with the following supplies. Stuff it with candy treats and scriptures from the Nativity story if you'd like to start a new family tradition similar to our own.        Natalie, my eldest, will be posting a lesson plan and contest giving away a lovely set of Chris...

Our pretend potatoes for the market stall.        Any child can craft pretend potatoes with very little effort! After your small one has mastered this easy craft, challenge him or her to sculpt something a bit more difficult.         Place fruits and veggies in on a table and have the him touch and explore the organic shapes and textures. Next ask him shape the aluminum foil into more advanced shapes such as carrots or turnips or maybe even a pumpkin.         Before you know it, you'll have plenty of veggies for an entire pretend veggie stand to play with! Supply List: aluminum foil masking tape brown paper bags white school glue Mod Podge optional stapler recycled netting from potato bag Step-by-Step Directions: Tear off large 12"x12" squares of aluminum foil. Shape the foil into silver potatoes, you won't need to crush these down so much! Leave the bumpy parts of the potatoes alone, whe...

My two fresh baked pies were hardened in the summer sun  and look good enough to eat!        Make a couple of delicious looking pretend pies to serve at a doll dinner party. I decided to shape a lattice top cherry pie and a simple blueberry pie from papier-mâché pulp for our playroom kitchen but you could make any pie you prefer from this old, familiar, classroom art supply. Supply List: round box with both the top and bottom papier-mâché pulp (small pack) masking tape brown paper bags white school glue Mod Podge or clear acrylic sealer acrylic paints: reds, browns, purple paint brush (stencil brush is optional) newsprint Step-by-Step Instructions: You will need a small round box container for this project. Something tossed our from the grocery store will be fine. I kept a brie cheese container for my pies. The container should be clean and dry, with no food residue.  Open the box and keep both sides face up. Crumple some newsprint and add this to...