Snowman snack, kids edible craft

Today our craft was also our afternoon snack.
we used:
round wheat crackers
cream cheese
blueberries (eyes and buttons)
raisins (mouth)
baby carrots (nose)
red pepper (scarf)
olives (hat)
pretzels (arms)
These were quick and easy to make. 20 minutes and we had everything in our house already. I love that they became our snack. I almost missed getting a picture, the girls were desperate to eat them. My five year old even ate the red pepper.

Get outside and build a real snowman, complete the look with a snowman kit

We have had contractors working on our house this past week. We weren't able to get many crafts done with the all of the mess.
We did manage to decorate store bought (refrigerated dough) gingerbread cookies. The girls had a great time decorating and eating their gingerbread men.
Over the weekend my husband went outside with the girls to enjoy our new layer of snow. They used one of our favorite Christmas gifts. A few years ago our neighbors gave us a snowman kit from Restoration Hardware. We love to use it and the girls have fun repairing snowman each day as he melts. The kit has a hat, eyes, carrot nose, mouth and buttons. If you need a inexpensive idea for neighbor kits this is a great idea. You could easily make your own by going to the thrift store for hats and scarves, get creative with the eyes nose and mouth materials. It will be fun to see your neighborhood decorated after the next snow storm.