Chocolate Caterpillar

What You Will Need

20 oatmeal cookies
1 tub of chocolate frosting (or homemade)
5 pieces of black licorice (fresh and pliable)
1 large marshmallow
sharp knife
spreader
serving tray



Instructions

1. Cut each piece of licorice in half.



2. Slice each piece of licorice in half length-wise.



3. Spread one cookie with about 1 teaspoon of frosting. Place a piece of licorice across the middle of the cookie.



4. Place a cookie, with its underside frosted, on top.



5. Frost the cookie's top and place another licorice piece.



6. Repeat until the column is 5 cookies high. Make 3 additional columns, like this one, with the remaining cookies.



7. Place all 4 cookie-columns on a serving tray end to end, on their side



8. Slide the cookies at an angle, so they are slightly laying on top of one another. Cut little round eyes and a smiling mouth from the marshmallow.



Additional Details

Make sure the licorice for this project is fresh and soft. Hard and stale licorice is difficult to cut.

For variation, use candies instead of a marshmallow for the eyes and mouth.

Skunk Stump Stunk

A comical tongue twister...

A skunk sat on a stump
and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

Bear Belinda

A fun word game for young and old alike.

1. Sit all players in a circle.

2. Give sometime for each person to think of the name of an animal that starts with the same letter as the first letter of their name. For example my name is Belinda and I pick Bear, therefore my new name is Bear Belinda. It is not important that the animal name describes the person, but instead that it is alliterate of their first name.

3. Pick a leader to start. The leader says the animal name they have selected and their name. If I were the leader I would say 'Bear Belinda.'

4. The person on the leader's left says "Bear Belinda" and then adds their own name, for example "Hyena Heidi."

5. The next person says the names of all the ones before and his/her own.

6. This game is great fun and gets much harder as is progresses. If a player is stuck and can't remember a name, hints can be made by making the sound of the animal or acting like the animal in question.

Enjoy!