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In Honor of
President's Day
February 15th
President's Day
February 15th
Valentine Heart Cake
This is a chocolate cake but you can use whatever cake
mix or recipe that you like. The cake was dirty iced and
decorated with the butter cream frosting. I used a
Wilton star tip to decorate the cake.
Ingredients:
* Your favorite cake recipe
* Your favorite frosting recipe
* Heart shaped pan
* Decorating tip & bag
* All natural color
1- Prepare inside of pan coating with butter or
shortening. Sprinkle flour in greased pan and shake
around cake pan to coat. Then turn pan upside down
and tap over your sink or garbage to release the excess
flour.
2- Preheat oven to packaged mix or recipe directions.
3- Combine ingredients according to directions. Fill pan
with batter and tap several times to release any bubbles
in the batter.
4- Bake according to directions. Cake is done when an
inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely.
5- To remove cake from pan, run a butter knife between
cake and pan. Invert cake on serving dish (many times I
cover a heavy piece of cardboard with foil). Once pan is
turned upside down tap on the bottom to make sure
cake is released from pan. Once cake is out of pan
brush off excess crumbs from top and sides.
5- Cover whole cake with a thin layer of frosting. This is
called "dirty" icing a cake. Let dry to touch and then the
fun begins... decorating!
6- Leave two thirds of the frosting white. Scoop out a
couple of large spoonfuls of frosting into a medium sized
bowl. Add your natural color and mix. You can get the
natural powdered coloring I used from the
Squirrel's Nest
Butter Cream Frosting
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening (you can replace this with
butter if you are having a hard time
finding an accepted shortening.)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
3-2/3 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
Cream butter and shortening. Add vanilla and salt. Beat
in sugar, one cup at a time. Add milk and beat until light
and fluffy.
Tip: If you don't have a heart pan, bake your cakes in
one 8 inch round and one 8 inch square pan. Cut the
round one in half. Turning the square pan so that points
of the square are pointing up and down ~ put one round
on each of the top sides of the square pan to form the
heart. Click on the heart
for a diagram of this
version of the heart cake.
Westerman Children from Alaska
Erika 17 Jimmy 7 Josh 5
Erika 17 Jimmy 7 Josh 5
Pretzel Log Cabin
President's Day is a great time to teach kids about
how our forefathers grew up in log cabins and
worked the land with their own two hands.
What you'll need:
• Small empty milk carton
• Pretzel sticks
• Peanut butter (can use frosting instead)
• 1 tubular shaped candy (for chimney)
• 1 square pretzel or cracker (window)
• Rectangular pretzel(s) or cracker(s) (door)
• Scissors
• Wide clear tape
How to make it:
1. Cut the top flap of the milk carton off. Just
the 1/2 inch top piece of the carton. Fold the top of
the milk carton down so you have formed a cube.
Tape closed.
2. For doors and windows: Spread peanut
butter on the back of each pretzel and place
where you want the doors and windows to be.
Usually a window on each side and the door
in the front. Stick on with
peanut butter
3. Now we cover each side
of house with peanut butter
and place pretzels on. Make
sure and do only one side at
a time. You will need to cut
pretzels the correct size to
fit between windows and doors.
4. After all sides are complete, spread peanut
butter on top of house and place pretzels on top.
5. Spread some peanut butter on the bottom of the
candy and stick to the roof.
President's Day is a great time to teach kids about
how our forefathers grew up in log cabins and
worked the land with their own two hands.
What you'll need:
• Small empty milk carton
• Pretzel sticks
• Peanut butter (can use frosting instead)
• 1 tubular shaped candy (for chimney)
• 1 square pretzel or cracker (window)
• Rectangular pretzel(s) or cracker(s) (door)
• Scissors
• Wide clear tape
How to make it:
1. Cut the top flap of the milk carton off. Just
the 1/2 inch top piece of the carton. Fold the top of
the milk carton down so you have formed a cube.
Tape closed.
2. For doors and windows: Spread peanut
butter on the back of each pretzel and place
where you want the doors and windows to be.
Usually a window on each side and the door
in the front. Stick on with
peanut butter
3. Now we cover each side
of house with peanut butter
and place pretzels on. Make
sure and do only one side at
a time. You will need to cut
pretzels the correct size to
fit between windows and doors.
4. After all sides are complete, spread peanut
butter on top of house and place pretzels on top.
5. Spread some peanut butter on the bottom of the
candy and stick to the roof.
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President's Wig
Dress up like an old time President with this wig.
What you'll need:
• white baseball cap
• cotton balls, about half a bag
• White craft glue
• strip of black or brown ribbon
• 3 x 3 inch square piece of white
felt
• scissors
How to make it:
1. Cut felt out and glue it on the inside of the hat behind
where the adjustable strap is. This will cover the hole
between the strap and the hat and stabilize the hat before
you glue.
2. Stuff something inside the hat like a hand towel or a
few rags, or old plastic bags to shape hat.
3. Glue cotton balls to the hat, starting at the front and
working your way back. Continue until the entire hat is
covered.
4. Cut ribbon and make a bow.
5. Glue the bow on top of the cotton balls
6. Allow to dry completely.
7. Wear hat backwards so the bow is above the nape of
the neck.
Dress up like an old time President with this wig.
What you'll need:
• white baseball cap
• cotton balls, about half a bag
• White craft glue
• strip of black or brown ribbon
• 3 x 3 inch square piece of white
felt
• scissors
How to make it:
1. Cut felt out and glue it on the inside of the hat behind
where the adjustable strap is. This will cover the hole
between the strap and the hat and stabilize the hat before
you glue.
2. Stuff something inside the hat like a hand towel or a
few rags, or old plastic bags to shape hat.
3. Glue cotton balls to the hat, starting at the front and
working your way back. Continue until the entire hat is
covered.
4. Cut ribbon and make a bow.
5. Glue the bow on top of the cotton balls
6. Allow to dry completely.
7. Wear hat backwards so the bow is above the nape of
the neck.
Valentine Flower
This is an easy craft for smaller children.
You might need to help them with the
cutting out.
• Printed template (on white paper)
• 1 piece of colored paper (flower will be
glued to it)
• Crayons (to color flower)
• Glue
• Glitter, stickers, or felt (to decorate
flower)
1- Print out template
2- Color and cut out
all the pieces
3- Glue together the
large hearts to form
a flower (the points
should all face towards
the middle of the flower).
4- Glue the flower to the top of the
rectangular stem and the smaller
hearts to the bottom of the stem and
leaves.
5- Decorate with glitter, stickers or felt.
This is an easy craft for smaller children.
You might need to help them with the
cutting out.
• Printed template (on white paper)
• 1 piece of colored paper (flower will be
glued to it)
• Crayons (to color flower)
• Glue
• Glitter, stickers, or felt (to decorate
flower)
1- Print out template
2- Color and cut out
all the pieces
3- Glue together the
large hearts to form
a flower (the points
should all face towards
the middle of the flower).
4- Glue the flower to the top of the
rectangular stem and the smaller
hearts to the bottom of the stem and
leaves.
5- Decorate with glitter, stickers or felt.
Sweetheart Pencil Toppers
* Pencils
* Pipe Cleaners (red, pink, white)
* Craft Foam
* Permanent Markers
Step 1 - Cut a 1- to 2-inch heart
from craft foam.
Step 2- With a permanent marker, print a short message on the
front and the name of the giver on back.
Step 3- Now poke an inch of the pipe cleaner through the bottom of
the heart, bend it down, and twist it back around the remaining
length of pipe cleaner.
Step 4- Coil the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil. Then gently
pull up on the heart so that part of the coil bobs freely above the
pencil, with several loops anchored around the eraser end.
Examples of message: Be Mine * I Luv U * Kiss Me * Sweet Heart *
You're Cool * True Love *
* Pencils
* Pipe Cleaners (red, pink, white)
* Craft Foam
* Permanent Markers
Step 1 - Cut a 1- to 2-inch heart
from craft foam.
Step 2- With a permanent marker, print a short message on the
front and the name of the giver on back.
Step 3- Now poke an inch of the pipe cleaner through the bottom of
the heart, bend it down, and twist it back around the remaining
length of pipe cleaner.
Step 4- Coil the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil. Then gently
pull up on the heart so that part of the coil bobs freely above the
pencil, with several loops anchored around the eraser end.
Examples of message: Be Mine * I Luv U * Kiss Me * Sweet Heart *
You're Cool * True Love *
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