Holiday Baking as Homeschool Curriculum -- Over 100+ Recipes! (2024)

Holiday Baking as Homeschool Curriculum — Over 100+ Recipes!

Every year I look forward to holiday baking with my kids. It’s a time of great memories because we are all together, laughing, telling stores and making up some yummy treats for get-togethers, friends and neighbors. Did you know this is also a great time to mix-in naturalhomeschool learning? Yep! There are many real life lessons to be learned while having family fun in the kitchen.

If you are looking for some delicious homeschool holiday recipes, I think we have you covered with all the amazing recipes below. This is also a great time to visit favorite FHD posts such as the original Holiday Baking as Homeschool Curriculum resource! For more homeschool holiday encouragement read throughHomeschooling for the Holidays: 5 Ideas for Learning and Fun, and the classicWhat Homeschool Moms REALLY Want For Christmas.

The Best Homeschool Cookie Creations

1. Santa’s Cookies: Not only are these cute but you can use these to teach counting. How many M&M’s are in each cookie?
2. Grinch Cookies : Use your color skills to try mixing up the colors to match the perfect shade of Mr. Grinch
3. Chocolate Kiss Powder Puff Cookies: Cut these apart and talk about how putting them back together again forms the whole kiss. Great lesson on beginning fractions.
4. Chocolate Pinwheels:Try not to eat all the dough first!
5. Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies: These are the best! Trying making Tic Tac Toe boards on your cookie!
6. Peppermint Kiss Thumbprint cookies: Have a ball mixing up red and green or create your own colors for even more fun.
7. Snow Kiss Cookies: How cold does it need to be for snow to fall? Warm up after playing with these fun Snow Kiss Cookies!
8. Perfect Sugar Cookies: Baking is packed with science, whip up the perfection concoction with these perfect sugar cookies
9. Italian Cookies:How many colors of the rainbow can be found in these super cute Italian Cookies
10. Snowflake Spice Cookies : Snow flakes come in all shapes and sizes which means the options are endless with these.
11. Jelly Twinkles :What different shapes can you make in the middle of your cookie?
12. Chocolaty Melting Snowman: Talking about “where does the snow go when it melts?” will be much more fun when eating these little guys.
13. Oreo Balls:Can you make a perfect ball shape truffle?
14. NutterButter Reindeer:Have a ball with these cute reindeer! Why do reindeer have antlers?
15. Apple Pie Cookies:Have your child read all the ingredients to you while you gather the items.
16. Santa Grahams: Can you count how many marshmallows are on Santa’s beard?
17. 3 Ingredient Shortbread Cookies: Use your imagination and create all kinds of fun shapes and designs.
18. Penguin Cookies: Make up these little guys and finish up with this fun (affiliate link)Penguin book to learn more.
19. Confetti Cake Batter Cookies:One of the easiest cookies you will ever make.
20. Peanut Butter Christmas Mice:These little guys are the cutest, just be sure to put all the shapes together to make him come to life.
21. Roly Poly Santas: How many different balls of dough do we need for Santa?
22. Float Bear Cookies: It’s awfully cold where these guys live. Do you have bears that live near you?
23. North Pole Cookies:How far is the North Pole from where you live?
24. Santa’s Belly Cookies : Practice those fractions by making sure Santa’s belt divides the cupcake in half.
25. Oreo Ornaments: Just be prepared for lots of sprinkles!

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