Cut a hot dog down the middle (length wise) to the center. Then cut each of the “legs” into 4 pieces. That makes 8 floppy legs coming out of the top half of the hot dog. When you boil them the legs curl up. Put it on a hamburger bun bottom and that’s it!

1. Put chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler and heat over boiling water until it flows easily.
2. Spread cookies with marshmallow topping. Try to make the surface even and bring the marshmallow right to the edges. While the cookies are sitting, the marshmallow topping will become shiny.
3. Using the pastry brush, paint the chocolate/butter mixture on the marshmallow. Use as few strokes as possible to obtain an even surface. A thin layer of the chocolate mixture works best. It is important to keep the chocolate over the warm water to keep it spreadable.
4. Place the cookies in the refrigerator until the chocolate is firm, about a half hour.
5. Use the point of a sharp kitchen knife to draw on the cookies. Your design will become white where the marshmallow topping was placed on the cookie.

1. Pull apart as many Twizzlers as you need for however many necklaces you will be making. Be careful that the strands of licorice do not break.
2. Simply string the Lifesavers (or whatever candy you are using) onto the strand of Twizzlers.
3. Once beaded, tie the two ends of the licorice together, again, being careful not to break the strand.
4. Now you can eat your necklace!

Take cheap biscuits and cut them into 4 pieces and roll into a small ball. I let the kids help with this part.

Grease a bunt pan. Roll the balls in sugar cinnamon mixture and drop all on top of each other around the ring. Drizzle with some melted butter and bake on about 400 degrees (a little cooler than the bisquit can says) until you can tell the biscuit is done. Make confectioner’s sugar frosting and flavor it with orange or lemon. Flip the monkey bread out and drizzle the frosting on while they are warm. It is a sort of pull apart bread made the cheap way.

Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a saucepan. Add 1 cup of brown sugar. Boil and stir for one minute. Add a 3 oz.

can of chow mein noodles. Put the mixture in 12 paper baking cups in a muffin tin. Use your thumb to press noodles into the nest while still warm. DO NOT BAKE. Give children jelly bean eggs to put in their nests.

Slice bananas into 1 inch pieces. Melt peanut butter with the oil until dipping consistency. Put graham crackers in a zipper bag and push out air and seal the bag. Roll over top of bag with a rolling pin until crackers become fine crumbs. Use a fork to carefully dip one banana piece at a time into the peanut butter mixture. Immediately roll the peanut butter covered banana in graham cracker crumbs. Place on waxed paper and chill.

Open your walnut by prying it gently apart. Gut the walnut out until it is clean.

File the base (the flat part of the shell) so that when the two halves fit together there is a large space to fit a popsicle stick as the handle.

Spread Elmer’s glue all the way around the base of one shell half. Put glue on both sides of one end of the popsicle stick. Place the uncooked rice in the other half (the unglued half) of the walnut shell.

Fit the two halves together and place the popsicle stick as the handle between the two, where you filed a space for it.

Wrap the rubber band around the shell to hold the maraca in place for 24 hours while the glue dries.

Cut apple in half. Have kids spread peanut butter on apple half. On foil or wax paper have different piles for dipping apples in: A pile of chocolate chips A Pile of rice crispies A pile of raisins Let the kids smash the peanut butter side of apple in each pile!

After reading “Green Eggs and Ham,” make scrambled eggs: add green food coloring to egg and ham mixture. Use lunch meat for ham.

Fill crevis in celery with peanut butter or cheese whiz and add raisins on top.