Garden Crafts and
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Have Fun with Your Children and Eat It Too
Looking for some ideas to spend quality time with your kids? Do your kids like garden crafts and cooking? How about give it a try at cooking? It is inexpensive, fun and beats sitting in front of the TV. We love crafts and simple no stove needed cooking, so we have created gardening-crafts-cooking ideas section just for you and your kids. In this section you will find landscape tips for creating sustainable crafts, ideas for recycling your kid’s toys, cooking, school gardening, and many more DIY gardening ideas for your children. So you have been invited to a garden party, birthday or pool party and are wondering what to bring? Try no-bake delicious “Dirt Cake.” Yes, a dirt cake that you can eat. My daughter and I made a dirt cake with Oreo cookies. I found the recipe years ago from a Martha Stewart Show. This recipe serves 12- 15 kiddos and adults.
The following items are needed for the dirt cake: - Plastic container – Wash with soapy water and rinse thoroughly before using. We used a small pot with no drainage hole that we bought from Home Depot for less than one dollar.
- 1 package of Oreo cookies (16 ounces)
- 12 ounces of cream cheese, room temperature
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 4 packages (3.9 ounces each) instant chocolate pudding
- 4 3/4 cups milk
- 1 16 ounce carton frozen whipped topping, thawed
- Jelly beans, gummy worms or strawberries for decorating (ex. edible flowers, carrots, blueberries etc.)
Step 1: Place Oreo cookies in a food processor bowl. Process until mixture resembles coarse dirt. Set aside. Tip: we split the cookies in half and scrapped the white cream part out to cut back on calories). Step 2: In a large bowl, combine cream cheese and butter, stir until creamy. Set aside. Step 3: In another large bowl, whisk together the instant-pudding mixes and milk, stir until well blended. Using a rubber spatula, fold pudding mixture into cream-cheese mixture. Fold in whipped cream. Step 4: In a plastic flowerpot container alternate layers of cookie "dirt" and pudding mixture, starting and ending with cookie "dirt." Chill at least 4 hours or overnight.
Tips: Try home grown strawberries or blueberries to decorate the topping as it is growing from the pots. Calories do not count when you having fun with your kids.
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