Snack Time Fun

K (age 9) has a great American Girl Library Christmas Craft Book.  This is the first year her (oh too tired mother) has had some energy to attempt some of the activities and ideas in the book.
We made this melt-a-way mint snowmen and had such a fun time.  We rolled balls out of the white dough and decorated our little snowmen with some dough dyed light blue.

Not only did the kids have a blast, but the little mints were adorable!

This is definitely one worth doing again.  EASY fun with a group of kids!

Care to try?

1 T softened butter
1 T light corn syrup
1/8 t salt
1/2 t mint extract
1 c powdered sugar, add this gradually at the end

Make a dough.  Divide and color some with food coloring if desired.  We did about 1/4 of the dough in blue.  The actual directions suggest to make the 12 snowmen first, then divide the rest of the dough and make some blue and some orange (for noses).  My kids made a lot more than 12 snowman and had a ball with a little blue dough to decorate!