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Kids in the Kitchen: Easy Patriotic Animal Crackers

Do your kids like to help in the kitchen? Mine surely do! I love when they can make an entire snack all by themselves. Pull together three simple ingredients to let you kids make easy patriotic animal crackers.

Ingredients

Chocolate animal crackers
Wilton Candy melts (white)
Patriotic sprinkles

Instructions

Set up a workstation with a piece of wax paper.
Heat the candy melts according to the package directions.
Pour the melted candy into a plastic squeeze bottle (Wilton makes one that you can buy in a candy section) or in a piping bag.
While you are melting the wafers and getting it ready have your child line up some animal crackers in rows on the wax paper.
Once the melted chocolate is ready show your child how to squeeze the bottle or piping bag and go up and down a few rows.
Put patriotic sprinkles on the melted candy on top of the animal crackers (you have to do this fast as the candy hardens very quickly).
Allow candy a few minutes to harden thoroughly.
Enjoy!
Store leftover patriotic animal crackers in an airtight container.