Last year we bought my daughter a play kitchen. It’s one of her favourite toys and has led to some really fun play times. She prepares her play food, makes us meals, organises tea parties for her dolls and sets up shop too. This was a really great purchase!

Today it’s raining (again!) so I thought it would be fun to make our own food. We’ve made felt food before but I wanted to try and use some products from our recycling box so we made cardboard cookies.

Materials for cardboard cookies:
recycled cardboard, brown if possible
cookie cutters
white pen
scissors
sequins, stars and glitter to decorate

How to make cardboard cookies:

Draw around your chosen cookie cutters and cut out carefully. We made a mixture of gingerbread men, stars and gingerbread houses.

Decorate with sequins, sticker stars and glitter as you would real cookies. My 4 year old used a white pen to decorate his with pretend icing.

We placed ours on a baking tray when they were decorated.

We think they’re good enough to eat!

This was a really quick and easy craft which the 3 and 4 year old enjoyed.

Once again I have joined up with some other parent bloggers to share some fun indoor play ideas during this cold snap. Check out the other play ideas here:

• Paper airplane landing strips via What do We Do All Day
• Colouring rocks via Betsy’s Photography
• Numbers cereal sensory bin via Adventures of Adam
• Car track with painter’s tape via The Jenny Evolution
• Best paper airplane to teach the letter A via Sight and Sound Reading
• Simple rice sensory bin via Barefeet on the Dashboard
• Squiggle Drawing from Study at Home Mama

This is our last post in this series but you can check out our previous posts:

 Simple Duck Tape bracelets

No sew bean bags for a game of bean bag toss

Noughts and crosses with toys and washi tape