Edible Pilgrim Hats

We had a thanksgiving play group at our house today, so for a little treat I made Pilgrim hats. These are the ingredients you will need:

First take you chocolate and melt them on low heat over the stove.  While the chocolate is melting lay the cookies that survived the trip in the grocery store, from your children fighting over who got to hold them.  You will want them facing down.

Take the marshmallow and cover 3/4th of it with chocolate if you want you can cover it all with chocolate, but I wanted to have a little "belt" so I left a little bit of the marshmallow showing.  Use a little bit of chocolate to "glue" it to the cookies.  Use your yellow frosting to draw a square for the buckle.  I did around 30 of these and it took me about 20 minutes!  Happy Thanksgiving

Hats Anyone?

Last year I made these cute pilgrim hats, out of felt.  They turned out really cute.  I don't have step by step pictures so I will try to explain as best as I can.

Boy Pilgrim Hat:  I measured the head and made a circle that size.  Then draw a circle two to three inches bigger.  You now will have two circles, the smaller one inside the bigger one.  Then you cut out the smaller circle,and cut around the big circle, so you will now have a ring, two to three inches wide.  You will now made a rectangle that has the long side the same length as the circumference of the head, plus enough for the seam.  So for example I measure my kids head and it is 22 inches.  I would now cut a rectangle 23 inches long, which gives you 22 inches, plus a half an inch seam for each side.  You will now add your embellishments, like the belt strip and the buckle, then you will put the rectangle right side together and sew down the short side-it will now look like a tube.  Right side together sew the tube top to the circle base and turn.  I cut down the back side of the hat so it looked a little more "pilgrimy" instead of a top hat. 

Girls Pilgrim Hat:  Measure the girls head from cheek to cheek and any extra length you want to hang down the sides.  Then cut a rectangle.  Make a casing on both long sides of the rectangle. For the casing on the back you can make it little-it just needs to be wide enough to fit the elastic in.  Pull the elastic tight so that it will gather and make a little "pocket" for the head.  

If you have kids coming to your thanksgiving this is a fun thing to have!

Continuation of Candyland

My second oldest is a boy and he is going to be Mr. Mint for Halloween.

This is so so easy and it turned out really cute. . .but I'm a little bias :)

For the pants (which i think I need to make a little shorter, or gather them) I just used an easy pant pattern, and then added strips for fabric for the straps. 

I made the "socks" by just using leftovers from the hat and sewing it together to form a tube.  I spray painted some old shoes red.

I made cute little buttons to cover up the seams and to add a little bit of fun to it.  My husband thinks I am dressing my boys up like girls . . .but it's candyland and I think he looks handsome :)

The hat is my favorite part, but was by accident it turned out this way.  I first made a tube type hat, and when I was done I thought it looked to much like Cat-in-the-Hat so I pulled the top together to get a little pom-pom effect.  The kids are so excited for Halloween, come back later this week to see what my two youngest are going to be!! :)