These cute Jack O’ Lantern Cookies are SO easy to make it’s scary! Use ready made ingredients to assemble this Halloween cookie craft. 

Ingredients & Supplies

• Oreos or other round cookies
• Mini Chocolate chips
• Orange frosting OR Vanilla frosting and red and yellow food coloring
• Green Sour Punch Straws
• Knife
• Spoon
• Child safe scissors

This activity helps kids improve fine motor skills while using a spoon to mix, a knife to spread and scissors to snip the candy straw stem!  There are several skills that your child will practice to make these adorable cookies, whether it’s a single treat or a platter of pumpkins to bring to your next party. For example…

• Mixing the frosting requires strength and the use of two hands (one to hold the container and the other to stir with a spoon). 
• Learning to hold a knife properly to spread the frosting encourages proper utensil use.
• Snipping candy straws with scissors supports hand strength and scissor skills.
• Picking up tiny chocolate chips is excellent for developing precision pinch skills.
• Next decide whether your Jack o’ Lantern’s mouth will be happy, sad or scary.
• Note: You can get several repetitions in if you decorate lots of little pumpkins.

Pro Tip: Increase the dexterity challenge by placing the chocolate chips on the face with the pointy sides up. This will make the face look like a classically carved pattern with a triangle-shaped nose and eyes. 

No matter how spooky these Jack O’ Lantern Cookies try to be… they’ll always be sweet little pumpkin treats.