Rainbow Grahams

I like candy. It's a fact. My kids like candy. That's a double fact. So sometimes we do preschool activities involving candy 'cause we like it so much. Today, we created St. Patty's inspired candy mosaics on graham crackers. Like this:

I put all the candy out on the table and told the kids (and a friend) to make a rainbow, clouds and a pot of gold. It was super fun to see what they came up with all on their own. Some children are obvious abstracts or realists right from the start :-) One child is an obvious builder and worked for quite some time
to get the pot so it looked like gold was inside it, and it inside the clouds. Way cute stuff!

Here's what we used:

• frosting colored blue (for the sky background)
• skittles (rainbow colors)
• mini marshmallows (clouds)
• mini reese's peanut butter cups (for the pots of gold)

I let the kids frost the graham crackers with the blue frosting, or "finger paint" it on if they were less than adept with the knife. 

At the end, they each had a beautiful candy creation and a lucky treat to eat!