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From Celebrations

BUILD A MINIATURE TOWN CAKE

To make this town, bake your favorite sheet cake.

Using a few drops of food coloring, turn vanilla icing into green grass, and frost the cake. Then, either buy or bake a couple of batches of gingerbread cookies, vanilla wafers, chocolate cookies, and sugar biscuits.

Have everyone help frost the cookies, using different-colored frosting.

Add the cookies to the sheet cake, and build houses and buildings to transform your cake into a town.

Use upside-down ice cream cones covered with green frosting for trees.

Small candy bars can be smokestacks,

Licorice works best to make railroad tracks.

Gumdrops can be flowers.

Pile marshmallows together to make mountains.

Add chocolate sprinkles for dirt.

MUSICAL HUNT

Hide an object somewhere in the room and have the children search for it as they play this variation on You're Getting Warmer.

Line up the youngsters and have them hold hands.

Turn on some music, and have them march around the house together.

When the music gets louder, they'll know they're getting closer to the hidden item.

When you turn down the volume, they're moving away from it.

Sesame Street Parents
A Year of
CELEBRATIONS

All Kinds of Activities for Preschoolers and their Parents

Foolin' With Food on "April Silly Day"

Oscar's Dirt Cake on "Earth Day"

Stomp to the Music at "A Spring Birthday Party"

Sing for Your Pancakes on "A Musical Morning"

Hide and Seek Greetings when "Grandma and Grandpa Are Coming"

The Count's Counting Game when you're "On the Road Again"

Mirror Games on "I'm Fit" Day

Bring on the New Cake when "We're Moving"

Make Noticeable Notebooks as you "Get Ready for School"

Rock My World on "A Walk in the Woods"

Bubble Dancers on "Simple Science Day"

It's a Frame-Up when you "Create An Art Museum"

Batty Webs when you "Get Ready for Halloween"

What's That Sound at "A Mysterious Autumn Birthday Party"

Flashlight Tag and Glowing Moon Rocks on "Fun in the Dark Day"

Silly Red Creatures and I Can Make Elmo Giggle at "Elmo's Giggle Party"

Get Up and Go Games for "Cabin Fever Fun"

And many, many more

From Celebrations

GRILLED CHEESE PEOPLE

1. Cut slices of bread into circles with a round cookie cutter.

2. Top with circles of cheese.

3. To make each silly person, use two circles, one for the head, and one for the body.

4. Place them on a cookie sheet.

5. Add bacon-bit eyes, noses, and buttons.

6. Broil until the cheese melts.

7. Place one cheesy person on each plate.

8. Add carrot and celery stick arms and legs.

GLOWING MOON ROCKS

Collect some smooth rocks from outside and help your children decorate them with flourescent tempora paint and glow-in-the-dark stickers.

When the rocks are dry, hide them around the house, turn off some lights, and send your children on a night-time moon-rock hunt.