St. Nick Cookies For 1st Grade Religion Class

I made some simple St. Nick cookies for 1st grade Religion class this week. The cookies are made out of Milanos. However, they can also be made with Nutter Butters. I have a few kids with nut allergies so I used Milanos.

Ingredients:

Milanos or Nutter Butters

White melting chocolate

Red sanding sugar

Red cinnamon candy

Mini chocolate chips

Directions:

Melt the white chocolate. While the chocolate is melting line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper. Lay the Milanos out on the parchment paper.

Dip the top 1/3 of the cookie into the white chocolate and sprinkle liberally with red sanding sugar.

Let the red portion set. And dip the bottom third into white melted chocolate.

Using a drop of melted white chocolate add the mini chocolate chip eyes and red hot of the nose. 

The final step is to add a few spoonfuls of the melted chocolate to a zipper top bag. Twist the bag so the the melted chcolate is at one end. Snip a small pie off the corner and make little crosses on top of the red sugar.

The kids loved the cookies. This is what Christmas is about - trying to teach 1st graders about the true meaning of Christmas. 

Starting tomorrow I will be posting 12 days of handmade ornaments - so keep checking back and tell your crafty friends to check out my ornament posts!

Substitute Teaching 1st Grade Religion Class This Week

This week I am substitute teaching a 1st grade religion class. We are going to learn about Advent. But I also thought it would be fun for them to learn about Mother Teresa and St. Nick. And I made little crafts and snacks to reinforce the lessons.

Each child will get a Mother Teresa coloring sheet. 

I made each child a little Mother Teresa peg doll. And we are going to learn some fun facts about Mother Teresa.

She will be canonized in September 2016. We are also going to learn about how one becomes a Saint.

Each child will also get a St. Nick coloring sheet. We will also learn some fun facts about St. Nick.

Everyone will get a St. Nick candy bar. I found the St. Nick candy bar wrappers on the on the www.stnicholascenter.com it is a fantastic website with craft ideas for all ages. 

I printed the candy bar wrappers to use on snack sized Hershey bars.

I simply cut the little wrapper out and taped it arounf the Hershey bar.