Caterpillar Cookies

Materials

Flour

Instructions

1. Have the children flour
their hands and the surface
to be worked. Give
the children pieces of
sugar cookie dough to
roll into a snake shape.
They should place the
snake shapes on a cookie
sheet and flatten them until
they are about 1" (3 cm) thick.
2. Bake the snakes according to your recipe.
3. After the cookies cool, have the children help you mix vanilla
icing with green food coloring so that it becomes a bright
green color.
4. Have the children ice the cookies, and stick gumdrops all over
them to represent spots.
5. Next, let the children add black gel eyes and insert cut-up shoestring
licorice for the legs and antennae.
More to do
Outdoors: Give the children magnifying glasses and suggest that they look for caterpillars to
examine.