Preschool Edible Crafts

• 1 egg white
• 3 drops lemon juice 
• 175g (330ml) icing sugar, sifted
• coloring and flavoring (optional)

• Mix egg white and lemon juice in a bowl.

• Add sifted icing sugar in spoonful and mix until icing holds its shape.

• Color and/or flavor if desired.

• Seal bowl tightly until needed or the icing will dry out.

• 100g (125ml) butter or margarine
• 250g (500ml) icing sugar
• 10ml vanilla essence
• A little milk

• Cream butter or margarine with icing sugar.

• Flavor with vanilla essence and add a little milk until soft icing consistency is reached.

• Royal icing (see above)
• Pink essence
• Coloring
• Round biscuit

• Prepare the royal icing, adding a little pink essence and coloring.

• Spread on the round biscuits

• Decorate as desired.

• See photograph.

• Finger biscuits
• Wafers
• Royal icing (see above)
• M&m's or smarties

• Use the whole finger biscuit and half a wafer.

• With royal icing stick the wafer crosswise to the finger biscuit to form the airplane's wings.

• Stick on a triangle from another wafer for the tailpiece.

• Decorate with M&M's or smarties.

• Finger biscuit
• M&M's or smarties
• Royal icing
• Jelly baby
• Silver balls

• Take a finger biscuit and stick on four M&M's or smarties with royal icing to form the wheels (any other round, hard sweets can also be used)

• Stick a jelly baby on the biscuit, standing it upright.

• Write a number on the car with a piping tube.

• Use two silver balls for the lights at the front.

• Cupcake
• Butter icing (see above)
• Smarties or M&M's
• Licorice

• Spread the cupcake with dark pink or red butter icing.

• Make spots with brown icing or using brown M&M's or smarties.

• Use strips of licorice for the feelers.

• Lollipops
• Stiff paper
• Glue

• Use a variety of lollipops.

• Draw faces on stiff paper and cut out.

• Get the children to color and decorate them.

• Leave the wrapping on then lollipops and glue on the faces.

• Decorate further with bows, etc.
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• Round biscuits
• Icing sugar and a little boiling water
• Food coloring 
• Smarties or M&M's
• Thin licorice strips
• Butter knife
• Piece of cardboard

• Place the round biscuit on the piece of cardboard. This is their working surface and a place to write their name.

• Mix some icing sugar and a little boiling water into a glass bowl.

• Add some food coloring to the icing.

• Cut the licorice into different lengths. This is to be used for the spiders legs.

• Using the butter knife, cover the biscuit with the icing.

• Let the children make their own face and add the 8 licorice pieces for the legs.