Thanksgiving Pumpkins

Tonight we looked on Familyfun.com to get a couple of ideas on what to do for snacks for Thanksgiving. This one seemed fun but was really sticky. It was kind of hard to do as well as we tried to smash it together and it wasn't as easy to manipulate the circus peanuts as I thought it would be.

So here's what we did. We took circus peanuts cut them in half. Then we cut a thin slice of a green gumdrop to make it sticky. We put this slice on the back flat part of the circus peanut and put the two backs together. Then we rolled it into a ball, or at least tried to. It was quite sticky and hard to roll but we kind of got it. Then we took the back of a knife, even though the recipe called for toothpicks, it was easier as the toothpick kept breaking, to put lines on the "pumpkin". Then we put a hole in the top with a toothpick and cut off another piece of the gumdrop and put it in the top like a stem.


Gumdrops


Circus Peanuts



Rolling the balls for the "pumpkins".


Here's the ball!

Nattie ready to eat her pumpkin.

Syssa ready to eat her pumpkin.

Mara ready to eat her pumpkin.

The girls LOVED their circus peanut pumpkins.

The finished product.

This is not something we are going to do again because it was a lot of work and a lot of stickiness for not a lot of results. I will probably post again tomorrow about all of the fun events, food, crafts, and messes, of course.