Edible Tombs

For our FHE treat last night we made edible "tombs" out of cupcakes and cookies. It was pretty messy, but the kids liked it. Spencer would roll his cookie "rock" out from the opening and announce that the tomb was empty. I found the idea at sugardoodle and tweaked it to fit the things we had here at home.

Spencer put banana "rocks" all in front of his tomb with a little flag that says "He Is Risen"

Even Travis got into the act!

This is the post from sugardoodle so you can see how it was suppose to turn out!

http://www.sugardoodle.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1558&Itemid=429

A great activity that teaches the true meaning of Easter. Give each person a Hostess "snowball" cupcake (cupcakes upside down can work also). A white snowball would be ideal, but all I could find is hot pink and purple. : ) Give each person a "snowball" cupcake. Place it on the plate as the tomb.

1. Have a small paper plate (6") for each person.

2. I first had them smear the plate with a little chocolate frosting (soil)

3. Then sprinkled the "dirt" with green tinted coconut (grass)

4. Take a spoon and make a hollow spot in the snowball (Like the empty tomb)

5. Place a small sign in the hole that states "He is not here! He is Risen"

6. Take a wafer cookie (Nilla wafers work or 1/2 sandwich cookie) and set it over the hole.

7. I let them finish decorating with tinted marshmallow, sprinkles, gum drops, whatever I had available to finish decorating around the tomb. (flowers)

8. I finished the scene with a large gum drop punctured with a toothpick bearing a small sign that announced: He Has Risen.