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Give your preschool child a head start for school.

One way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is by making those wonderful tasting green shamrock cookies. Because they are so simple to do even your children can have fun helping to bake them, decorate them and even eating them.

What You’ll Need

* Refrigerator sugar cookie dough
* Non stick cooking spray
* Shamrock cookie cutters or small heart shaped cookie cutters
* Green tinted sugar sprinkles
* White icing
* Green food coloring

Directions

Slice off about 2 inch pieces of the cookie dough. Use the shamrock cookie cutters to cut out your shamrocks.

If you don’t have a shamrock cookie cutter use a small heart shaped cookie cutter. Use 2 of the heart shapes with the points together at the bottom to make your shamrock.

Use the leftover cookie dough to make stems for your shamrocks. This is easy to do by taking a small amount of dough and rolling it between your palms to get the desire length. Then flatten the dough and attach it to the bottom on the shamrock.

Sprinkle each shamrock with the green tinted sugar sprinkles, being sure to leave the stems as free of the sprinkles as possible.

Bake the cookies as directed on the cookie dough package. When the cookies are done move them to a flat surface to cool enough to be able to work with them.

In the mean time, tint the white icing with the green food coloring. Let the kids decide how green they would like their stems to be.

When the cookies have cooled enough to work with, use the green frosting on the stems. Then let everyone enjoy their home baked shamrock cookies.

Submitted by Easter Fun for Kids