December 24

Prompt: December 24

When my grandmother wanted to show me she cared

She fixed me a plate of my favorite food.

For me, those treats that she kindly prepared

Always put me in a wonderful mood.

Tonight, let’s fix a plate for somebody kind.

Let’s go to the kitchen and see what we find!

Download the prompts for December 21-24 here as a PDF or here as a Microsoft Word Document. If you want to get a jump on the next set of prompts, you can download the prompts for December 25-28 here as a PDF or here as a Microsoft Word Document.

A cream colored card with the December 23 prompt with a green border and a red wax seal. It’s nestled in a lit Christmas tree.

Materials

Snacks or ingredients of your choice and a willing participant.

Activity

The goal of this activity is to have your kid (or kids) create a plate for someone other than themselves. In our house, this will be baking cookies and setting them out for Santa, but it could just as easily be fixing a nice snack for a sibling, parent, or other person.

December 4

Prompt: December 4

As a young little frog, I sat on a log.

A Bûche de Noël, which we baked in the bog.

A yummy Yule log made of icing and cake,

that we made every winter, with extra to take

and to share with our friends to spread our good cheer.

Is there something your family makes special here?

Let’s think up a holiday treat we can share

To show someone special just how much we care.

Download the prompts for December 1-4 here as a PDF or here as a Microsoft Word Document.  If you’d like to get a jump start on printing the prompts for December 5-8, you can download them here as a PDF, or here as a Microsoft Word Document.

An image of the Dec. 4 prompt printed on cream cardstock with an orange border. A green wax seal of a frog is in the lower right hand corner. The card is nestled in a lit Christmas tree.

Materials

• Recipes for special holiday foods, if you have any

• Ingredients to make those foods

• Packaging to bring those foods to someone special

Activity

With your kiddos, talk about your family traditional foods for this time of year. What do you love to make and eat for special occasions? Is there something you share, or bring to friends and neighbors? We love to make these Brown Butter Stamp Cookies, and we use snowflake stamps to make them extra special. They’re delicious, only slightly sweet, and they travel well and look harder than they are to make. Once you’ve talked through the options, and shared your best memories of them, put on your aprons and make your favorite holiday treat, with extra to share. If you don’t have time today, schedule a cooking date with your kiddos. Bon appétit!