14 Feb Show Your Love with Valentine’s Day Cookies and Floats

Aren’t celebrations and holidays just the best when you homeschool? They’re the perfect opportunity to mix things up, add a little spice, and create lasting memories with your children! This year, for Valentine’s Day, we made our Valentine’s Day no-sew heart pillows, and now we are going to show you how to make a colorful, enjoyable, and totally unhealthy snack of Valentine’s Day cookies and floats. Now, don’t judge! We don’t do this too often! But every once in a while, it’s fun to put together a fun snack that you can incorporate into your homeschool day. These Valentine’s Day cookies and floats would be great after lunch, for poetry tea time, or as a snack while reading aloud before bed.

Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies

Our strawberry cake mix cookies are a simple and quick recipe that is so easy to put together that even the youngest children can participate! You simply whisk together a box of strawberry cake mix, 2 eggs and 1/2 a cup of oil. That’s it! We refrigerated our mixture for about 30 minutes to firm it up before shaping it. Then we rolled it into balls – each one about 2 tablespoons – and arranged them onto a parchment covered cookie sheet. These spread quite a bit while cooking, so we only put 6 cookies per sheet.

Bake them at 350 for about 10 minutes. They will just begin to be showing darkening around the edges.

This is what they should look like – puffy, delicious and ready to devour. But don’t do that yet! We’ve still got to make our floats to go with them!

Take the cookies out of the oven and let them sit for about 15 minutes before removing them from the cookie sheet. If you want to add sprinkles or another topping, this is a good time for it.

While they set, we’re going to make our strawberry lemonade floats.

HAPPY HANDICRAFTS VIDEO: SHOW YOUR LOVE WITH VALENTINE’S DAY COOKIES AND FLOATS

Strawberry Lemonade Floats

I wasn’t sure I was going to like these. I was wanting to make old fashioned Cream Soda floats – you know the kind that was pink? Obviously for Valentine’s Day, it has to be pink! I was very disappointed because I couldn’t find any! Maybe they don’t make it anymore. It was my favorite soda from my childhood. Since we couldn’t find it, we chose another pink drink, Dole’s Strawberry Lemonade, and it was actually so refreshing and delicious!

Floats are also super quick and easy to make. So enlist the help of your children!

To make strawberry lemonade floats, all you do is pour about 1/3 of a glass of the soda. It can really be any soda that you enjoy. Then put a scoop of vanilla ice cream into the soda. Repeat this once, and your glass should be pretty full. Just to be extra, we chose to top our float off with whipped cream and sprinkles.

The final piece is the Twizzler straw. Just cut the ends off and then cut the Twizzler to the size of straw that you like. The longer the straw, the more Twizzler you get!

Now it’s time to enjoy your creations! Sit down with your kids, read a book, have a great conversation, or just relish the moment. It’s not often we indulge like this, so when we do, we are going to savor every bit of it.

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