Toddler Tuesday: Tasty Snowmen

Raw sugar, marshmallows, corn syrup
skewers, and decorations.

What better way to get Calan excited about crafts then to add sugar? Last week, we made some marshmallow snowmen. It was a simple craft that was messy, but tasty.

What you need:
Skewers
Marshmallows
Corn syrup
Sugar crystals
Food markers, black and orange sprinkles, or anything else to doctorate your snowmen

Take three marshmallows and put them on a skewer. Then paint with corn syrup and roll in sugar. Add decorations, which should just stick to the corn syrup too.

Calan did really well putting the marshmallows on the skewer. But because he started to paint anything other than the marshmallows with corn syrup, I ended up doing that part. He helped dress the snowman in sugar and I added the face with frosting gels.

He started to have a little bit of break down when the corn syrup and sugar stuck to his hand until I finally got him to lick it and then it was pure joy. I let him take one bite and then it was clean up time.

We didn't do anything with the snowmen this year. We just looked at them for a few days and then tossed them. But next year, maybe we will package them up and give them out as hot chocolate stirrers. Sounds delicious to me.