The boys had recently been given some cookie decorating kits by their auntie, and as New Year’s Eve is approaching I thought making New Year’s Cookies would be the ideal activity to keep them busy for a while on such a cold and rainy day.
Our kit had star shaped gingerbread cookies, the perfect shape for any celebration. Of course you could make your own too. We had red and yellow icing to decorate, and star/snowflake shapes, and round red balls. Gold or silver balls would be lovely for a New Year’s theme too.
The boys all enjoyed decorating the cookies, and only a few of them got bitten into before they could be decorated (thanks to Mr R!)
Some very easy ideas for young ones are:
- Icing the year
- Icing new year’s messages
- These can be decorated by adding balls all along the iced letters/numbers or kept plain and decorated at the edges
- Decorating in star shapes
- Fireworks designs – this will work better if you have more colours of icing, but is good for young one who want to just scribble with the icing
Here’s some of the finished cookies:
If you are looking for more fun ideas for kids at New Year’s you could try these Firework craft ideas, which also links to Edible Sparklers and Firework cookies if you are looking for more food based ideas.
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These look fun – my two love decorating biscuits too – always a great activity for children!
great idea, especially for a day like today
What a cool idea – I would never have thought of making cookies for the New Year now I want to get baking though – see the year out in Cookie style! x
so cute! I made ginger bread shapes with Wilf just before Christmas and he loved it. Plan on making some more biscuits with him in the new year 🙂 x
I think we’ve only celebrated New Year’s Eve a handful of times.I think some baking is in order tomorrow.
Yummy – a tasty way to see in the New Year! x
Mmm these look yummy, well done to your children.
We had fun decorating a gingerbread house – now my eldest (8) keeps fielding enquiries about when we can eat it!
Love the New Year celebration ideas…
What a lovely idea – hope you have a Happy New Year.
You can’t beat cookie baking with the kids, Happy New Year to you all
Oh these are great! I can’t wait till my little one can properly help me with things like these 🙂
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What a great idea to get little ones involved in the whole New Year thing. Ours are too young to stay up so this is a great way to get them involved in the whole celebration…I might try and do this tomorrow with them! Thank you.
Great idea for little hands! I have pinned this, I hope that’s okay.
pinning is always okay! thank you! 🙂
A lovely way to celebrate New Year with children. #recipeoftheweek
Beautiful – we did something similar before Christmas. Hadn’t thought about New Year cookies!
Such a great idea Anna – sounds like the boys had a great time too! You’ve just reminded me we have some of that squeezy icing in the cupboard. Now to find the time…! Happy New Year – here’s to 2014 🙂
Such a lovely little idea but I bet it kept them happy for ages! Will definitely be doing something similar in the next few days 🙂
It looks like they had so much fun. What a great gift!
We have tried the gingerbread men that you can decorate yourself and Munchkin loves those. Will have to try these ones!
Such a nice idea, especially for making with the kids. We do a Christmas version, and it’s one of the best parts of the Christmas prep
Nice to see these cookies came out well and didn’t smash up before you got the chance to do them!
That looks like great fun and very tasty indeed!
yum! wishing you a very happy new year
We have some of these to decorate that we still haven’t gotten around to doing! Looks like your boys had lots of fun!
I love those little red balls – they’re really different 🙂
What a lovely idea xxx
These look lovely! I think I will make them with my four this afternoon!
They look fab x x
Happy New Year 😉
This look so yummy cant wait to have a go at making them but bang goes the weight loss resolution I do believe
These look lovely and so much fun to make. Me and my boys made some gingerbread for Christmas – all gone now!xx
These look great! Are we too late for this year?! Will definitely do them in December :o) x
Lovely! I really like the pics showing the cookies in progress too. Thanks very much for joining in with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve Pinned this to my Cooking with kids board and tweeted. There’s a fresh linky live now. Please do join in! 😀
Thanks for pin and tweet 🙂 I have already added to the next one!
This is a great idea! All too often we think celebrating the New Year is an adult event, but this is a great way to include children and looks lots of fun too!
Never thought about doing anythink like this before :]
What a brilliant idea, making cookies for New Year. Of course making cookies any time of the year is a good idea too 😉 Thank you for linking up to Kids In The Kitchen, I hope we’ll see you again x
Such a lovely idea to celebrate with kids..
Such a good idea to celebrate with kids ..
Yummy, such a greate a idea! thank you for sharing 🙂