What is better than making an O is for owl craft with your child? Making them out of another tasty O, oatmeal cookies. We have been working our way through the alphabet using animals and craft supplies starting with that letter. Most of my alphabet letters that we have made from food have been more or less disasters. These cute little oatmeal owls actually turned out pretty good. My three and a half year old daughter loved making them and the whole family enjoyed eating them.
How to Make an O is for Owl Craft With an O Supply
Supplies:
- Oatmeal cookie ingredients (see Joy Food Sunshine’s recipe)
- Food coloring
- Bottle lids or piping tips or small cookie cutters, etc.
- Child safe knife (optional)
Making the Cookies:
Before you can make any letters or animals, you need to make the cookie dough first. My preschooler loves helping in the kitchen, so she helped mix, measure, and dump. We followed this oatmeal cookie recipe from Joy Food Sunshine. Here are more tips and tricks on making cookies with a preschooler if you need them.
After we finished making the dough, we rolled it out into a bunch of small balls.
We took a few of the balls and used food coloring to make them black and orange. Then, I squeezed the tops of all but a few of the non-dyed dough balls to make ears. The cookies spread too much and the ears disappeared on the first pan (pictured below).
So, I made adjustments and made the ears more pronounced on the second pan. Don’t worry, even the cookies that never became owls were still eaten and enjoyed. I forgot to take a picture, so the below picture is from a minute or two after they went in the oven. You could also just make them as circles and use an owl shaped cookie cutter later to make the outside owl shape.
Making the Cookies Into O Shaped Owls:
Next, to do all of our cutting, we used random objects from around the house. This included bottle lids and piping tips. Use these, small circle cookie cutters, or whatever you can find around your own house.
First, I gave my daughter a 2 liter bottle lid. She put it in the middle of each of the cookies with ears and pressed down as hard as she could. Afterwards, I pressed it the rest of the way down and helped get the circle piece out of the lid.
Then, she made eyes for the owls. First, she used the large end of a piping tip to cut circles out of one of the uncolored non-ear cookies. Second, she used the small end to cut circles out of the black cookies. She made two of each of these for each owl. Once she cut them all, she stuck the black dots on the larger brown circles to make eyes. Last, she put two eyes on each O is for owl craft.
Next, I gave my daughter a child safe knife to cut all of the O middles that we had previously made in half. She also cut little triangles with it out of the orange cookie.
Lastly, we put the rest of the body parts on the O shaped cookies. I showed my daughter where to place the wings (half circles) and beak (triangle) on each one.
Conclusion of O is for Owl Craft Oatmeal Cookies
These tasty little owls were a lot of fun to make and eat. They turned out so much better than our previous food alphabet crafts (I’m looking at you E elephant and J jellyfish). My daughter was so excited to try one and was able to help so much in the creation process. I think that making several small ones was the right approach for these O shaped cookies.
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They look yummy.