It’s not everyday that I get the opportunity to let my kids play with their food. They rarely get free rein to decorate their dinner. But last week, I had the chance to be a fun mom, and my kids created fun, memorable holiday creations with their Tyson chicken nuggets.
We started by going on an always-interesting-when-we-go-out-as-a-family-of-seven outing to Sam’s Club. You can see our entire trip breakdown in the Google+ story that I created about our shopping experience. There are lots of pictures. π
At Sam’s, we bought our chicken nuggets, and we also bought other items that we could use to pair with the items that we had at home, so that we could be really creative with our holiday chicken nugget creations.
We used these items to make a wreath, Christmas tree, and snowman:
- chicken nuggets (our main ingredient)
- cherry tomatoes (for cherries)
- peas (for some christmasy green color)
- nutella (this was our ‘glue’ or ‘paint’)
- granola thins crackers (these were used to make gifts to go under the tree, as a tree stump, and used as Frosty’s hat)
- parmesan cheese (snow)
- coconut (snow)
- ketchup (as ‘glue’ and a great way to add a christmasy red color – also great for dipping your finished nuggets)
- chocolate chips (coal for the snowman’s face and purely for fun)
- chocolate truffles (the ‘star’ for our tree – an extremely creamy and delicious star, that is)
Nathan, our oldest son, had a delicious holiday wreath for dinner. We used chicken nuggets, cherry tomatoes, and peas to create the wreath. I love that we could incorporate some vegetables into this fun holiday meal.
Isaac’s and David’s creations were much more sweet and chocolatey. Isaac created a chocolate chicken nugget Christmas tree. He is definitely the adventurous one in our family, and he loved his creation. He enjoyed eating it, too.
Can you tell from the pictures? Chicken nuggets and chocolate were winning combinations for our sweet-toothed 5-year-old.
David also created a Christmas tree. His tree was made out of chicken nuggets, and it had peas for ornaments, cherry tomatoes as the stump, and coconut, which was for snow on the tree.
Breanna, who is our more meticulous creator, made a snowman. She used chicken nuggets as the snowman’s body, and then used the granola thins crackers as the hat, chocolate chips for the face, coconut as snow, and ketchup as glue to keep the snow on the snowman’s body. She finished him off with a single pea – as a button.
All in all, the kids loved thinking outside of the box with their chicken nuggets. They made some fun holiday creations, and I know this is something they’ll not soon forget. Why should cookies have all the fun?
We may make this a new holiday tradition. π
What kinds of fun holiday traditions do you keep with your kids? Have you ever thought to decorate chicken nuggets in a fun and festive way?
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