Smiley Face Biscuits

On a lighter note, if you're ever stuck for a fun activity with children/students, try making Smiley Face Biscuits. We know kids love to get messy and to eat, so why not combine the two? I have done this in secondary as part of pastoral care, and encouraged the students to give their finished biscuit(s) to a friend or a teacher to brighten their day.

You will need:

• a packet of plain biscuits (e.g. milk arrowroot) - enough for at least one per child
• food colouring
• small bowls - one for each colour
• spoons, knives (plastic, of course!)
• icing sugar
• various small sweets for decoration (snakes, M&Ms, etc.) - get the students to bring these if possible
• water
• newspaper or something to cover the table with

Process:

1. Mix up small quantities of coloured icing. I would recommend you do this yourself, preferably beforehand. I let the students do this once, with the result being an entire bottle of food colouring poured into a small bowl of icing sugar. Very difficult to rectify, unless you have a lot of icing sugar!
2. Students can spread icing over the biscuit to form foundation, and then create smiley faces using the sweets.
3. Eat or give away!

Unfortunately, I haven't got any pictures of the students' lovely creations to show you, so here's one I made: