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Description

Decorate your own happy cookie characters.

Source: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cookies-with-character/

Resources

20 minutes
Scrap paper
Pens or pencils
Food colouring
Spoons
Mixing bowls
Biscuits
Icing sugar
Decorations

Take it further
Why not decorate cakes for an event you’re hosting such as Father’s Day or showing older people some skills? This could even count towards your My World Challenge Award if it’s helping people in your local community.

Youth shaped guidance
People could bring in things that they’d like to use to decorate with and share – if you plan to do this, make sure everyone is aware of any allergens to avoid.

Safety: Food
Check for allergies before you begin. Make sure you have suitable areas for storing and preparing food and avoid cross contamination of different foods.

Instructions

Before you begin
- It’s up to you whether you use biscuits or something else such as rice cakes.
- Make up a few bowls of icing using icing sugar and water. Add food colouring to some so people have a few colour options.
- Put the decorations into bowls. It’s up to you what you use – small sweets and small fruit such as blueberries and raisins work well.


Happy thoughts
1. The person leading the activity should give everyone a piece of scrap paper, and a pen or pencil.
2. Everyone should draw a circle to be their biscuit.
3. Everyone should draw a design onto their biscuit. They should design something that makes them happy, or how they look when they’re happy. This could be a big smiley face, or something such as their favourite flower, their dog, their friends, or a sport. It’s best to keep the designs simple as people will have to make them with icing, sweets, and fruit.
4. Everyone should look at the colours of icing and the decorations that are available.
5. Everyone should think about how they’ll use the icing and decorations on the table to create their design. Do they need to make anything a bit simpler?
6. Everyone should wash their hands and get ready to decorate.


Decorate biscuits
1. The person leading the activity should give everyone a biscuit.
2. Everyone should copy their designs as they decorate their biscuits with the icing, sweets, and fruit. They should start by spreading a thin layer of icing over their biscuit using the back of a spoon.
3. Once everyone’s finished decorating their biscuit, they should come together to admire each other’s creations and show each other what makes them happy. Now’s a great time to reflect, too.
4. Everyone should enjoy their treat or take it home for later.


Reflection
- This activity needed everyone to use their skills to plan ahead to design their biscuit, then decorate it based on what was available. How close were people’s biscuits to their original designs? Did anyone find any parts of this activity tricky? Some people may have found it tricky to spread the icing evenly over their biscuits – it can be hard to get it even, especially if you start with too much or too little icing. This activity was also a chance for everyone to think about the things that make them happy. Everyone should look at all of the biscuits, and take it in turns to call out the things they recreated on their biscuit. While they eat their biscuit, everyone can think of the things that make them happy.


Change the level of challenge
Why not swap designs with someone else so everyone decorates a biscuit based on someone else’s design? Alternatively, people could create one design in a small group and work together to create identically designed biscuits.

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