Groundhog Day Treat

Ok so this is for all you teachers out there or you mommies that love to do projects with your kiddos... Yesterday at the daycare I work at my fellow teacher and I made this edible groundhog. He was so cute! We found him in the Family Fun magazine (love this magazine).

 



Finished Project.

These are all the ingredients we used to make this cute little guy. 1. Punch cups. 2. Oreo cookies.  3. Reese's Peanut Butter Chips. 4. Chocolate Frosting. 5. Almonds. 6. Chocolate Pudding (Not Pictured). 7. Milano Cookies. 8. Cellophane Treat Bags. 9. Ribbon.

To start out our lesson for Groundhog Day, we used a chart so that the kids could guess if the groundhog would see his shadow or not. I recommend calling the kids over one by one because if you don't they like to just go along with the other kids and then you will have all the kids under one side. I called them over one by one and it worked great.

 

 

After we put all of their names on the chart we started to make our treat.

Some Tips:

1. Make sure that you cut all of the ingredients the day before. We made the mistake of not doing this which made the whole project longer.

 

Steps to do the day before:

1. The oreos need to be smashed into little pieces. Put them in a zip lock bag and pound them to crumble them up.

2. Cut the tips off of the peanut butter chips.

3. Cut a few teeth out of the almonds.

 

Steps for creating this yummy treat:

1. Write their names on the punch cups and give one to every kid.

2. Open the pudding. We let the kids dip their own out. It may get messy but they had fun. Fill the cups 3/4 full of pudding.

3. Give each kids a glove and let them get some oreos to put on top for dirt.

4. We gave all the kids a Milano Cookie.

5. We went around with frosting and whole almond pieces. Put some frosting on the back of  their cookie and let them put the whole piece almonds on for ears. I had to demonstrate on one first so they knew that they had to stick out a little.

6. We just put icing on the back of the tooth (the cut almonds) and they put it on their ground hog.

7. We put icing on their cheeks (the peanut butter chips) and they placed them  on also.

8. We went around with and icing bag and made their eyes and nose for them.

9. Ask them to stick their ground hog half way in their dirt being careful not to make the face fall off.

 

 

They had a great time making this treat!

 

In order for these kiddos to take their treat home we made it a little easier to carry home. We put the cups into a cellophane treat bag and tied it with ribbon giving it a cute look!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy doing this with your kiddos!