Fabulous Sugar Cookie Recipe

One of my children’s favorite activities to do on holidays (especially Valentine’s Day and Halloween) was to make holiday shaped sugar cookies. We had great times mixing, (and snitching tastes of the dough), rolling out, cutting, baking, frosting, and decorating the cookies. The recipe that I use is a favorite […]

Easy hot chocolate recipe on Grandma Ideas

Super Easy Hot Chocolate Mix

We’re having a breather in between snowstorms. About two weeks ago, a storm dumped between 1 to 2 feet of snow on some of the nearby cities. A college, two elementary schools, and a junior high school were closed. (I’m sure those students were elated!) We got a measly 2 […]

Make lacy snowflakes -- it's all in how you fold the paper. GrandmaIdeas.com

How to Cut Snowflakes

When I was a freshman in college (back in the Mesozoic era), there were two things that I learned that I have used throughout my life. Did I remember anything from zoology? US History? I didn’t take much in my brain out the door of the classroom from those subjects. […]

The Candy Bar Game is a FUN game to play on New Year's Eve, at birthday or Christmas parties, family gatherings or reunions -- or ANY time. All you need are some dice and some candy bars. Learn how to play it now.

The Candy Bar Game

What do you do on Thanksgiving day after the last morsel of turkey is ingested and every crumb of pie is licked clean from the pie plate? Some families sit in a calorie induced haze in front of the TV watching football and shouting at a referee that can’t hear […]