Rainbow cookie decorating
Decorate four colorful cookies, give your favorite character a birthday wish, and serve or pack them in a single layer.
Activity steps
- Set out the cookie table,Clip the unicorn backdrop to existing stable supports beside the postcard gallery, away from wet paint and food. Wash hands and use a clean covered table. Put four plain cookies, a plate and a teaspoon at each place. Divide ready-to-spread frosting, edible candy eyes and sprinkles among four small bowls. Tint small portions of frosting with food color before guests begin. Keep every food supply separate from craft markers and glue.
- Create a birthday crew,Spread frosting onto each cookie and add edible eyes and sprinkles for faces, hair or patterns. Make a cookie that looks like a friend, an imaginary pet, or the birthday person. Use only edible decorations on the cookies.
- Meet the characters,Give a favorite cookie a name and a funny birthday wish, then introduce it to the table. Serve the cookies on a clean tray. Put cookies going home in rigid food-safe containers with space above the soft frosting, keeping them in a single layer.
Check ingredients and dietary needs before buying. Grown-ups handle setup and supervise younger children with edible decorations. Soft frosting needs a rigid container with headroom for the trip home; use clean supplies you already own.
Shopping list for 6 people
- Plain cookies for decorating — 24 cookies
- Ready-to-spread vanilla frosting — 210 g
- Edible candy eyes — 48 eyes
- Cookie sprinkles — 30 g
- Reusable plates — 6 plates
- Teaspoons — 6 spoons
- Small bowls for cookie toppings — 4 bowls
- Lavender cover for the cookie table — 1 cover
- Rigid food-safe cookie containers — 6 containers
- Food colors for pastel frosting — 1 set
- Reusable serving trays — 1 tray
- Pastel unicorn birthday backdrop — 1 backdrop
- Clips for the fabric backdrop — 4 clips
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