Celebrate Oreo Cookie Day - March 6

March 6 is the anniversary of the first time Oreo Cookies went on sale almost 100 years ago, March 6, 1912. Celebrate with your kids or students with these fun Oreo Cookie recipes and activities.

Oreo Cookie Fortunes
Give every child an Oreo Cookie - the original variety works best. Tell every child that the left side of the Oreo Cookie represents "yes" and the right side represents "no." Each person takes a turn asking a yes or no question. For example, "Will I get a new bicycle for birthday?" or "Will Tommy ask me out?" The child then twists open the Oreo Cookie. Whichever side has the most icing on it represents the answer to the child's question. Have fun asking the Oreos for their wisdom on the future!

Oreo Cookie Towers
Provide several packages of Oreo Cookies, any variety, and several tubes of squeeze icing in different colors. Each kid starts with a package of Oreos. Show the kids how to use icing to stack the cookies on top of each other. Have participants continue stacking and icing cookies to see who can build the highest tower of Oreo Cookies before they fall. Using icing between each cookie lets the kids build really tall towers. Make a rule that no tower can be propped up or held, but must stand on its own. Decide on a prize for the winner.

No Hands Game
Play the No Hands Oreo game. Give each child one Oreo cookie. Show each child how to lean their head back and place the Oreo on their forehead. Using only the muscles in their face, the children have to move the Oreo down their face and into their mouths. Let children practice by making funny faces and warming up their muscles. Teach them how to isolate muscles in their face by wiggling their eyebrows, hoses, upper cheeks, jaws, and wrinkling their foreheads. To see this trick in action, check out Miller & Mike: Oreo Cookie Trick.

Oreo Creatures
Use the many varieties of Oreo Cookies as the base for Oreo Creature sculptures. Provide candies, icing, chocolate chips, and the Oreo Cookies. Show children how to add candy to their cookie base to create a new creature. Make one with the children to help them get started. Place three Oreos on a paper plate to resemble a snowman, or add candy corn around the outside of a cookie to resemble feathers or spikes. Make legs and arms out of Twizzlers or candy straws. Be sure to photograph each child with their Oreo creature before judging and allowing them to eat their creations.

Oreo Penguins
If you have younger children and want a more structured form of the Oreo Cookie creature sculptures, try the simple Oreo Penguin activity. Twist open one Oreo Cookie. Lay the side with the most cream down, cream side up. Break the other chocolate wafer in even halves. Place one Hershey's Kiss at the top center of the cookie on the plate. This is the penguin's beak. Place the halved Oreo wafer pieces on either side of the penguin's beak with the curved sides in. Add two candy corns the bottom for the penguin's feet. You can give the penguin eyes by dipping a toothpick in the white Oreo icing and making two dots on the top of the Hershey Kiss beak.

Story Time
Read the children's book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Have your children re-write the story with "If You Give (Insert Your Child's Name) an Oreo." Take digital photos of your children acting out the things in their story and print them out to make a story book.

Word Games
Give each child a piece of paper with the Oreo Cookie slogan "America's Favorite Cookie" written at the top. Set a timer for one or two minutes. Have children race to see who can come up with the most words using the letters in the slogan. For more word games, let children write an acrostic poem using the word Oreo or "I Love Oreos."

Oreo Moons
Twist open several Oreos until you have eight Oreo halves. Using the icing to decorate each half to represent a phase of the moon. For example, a full moon would have all the icing. A new moon would have a tiny sliver of icing on one side. Check our Paper Plate Education for photos and directions for Oreo moon phases.

Oreo Dessert Buffet
Let your kids help you make an Oreo Dessert Buffet for their school class or Sunday School group. Children can include their Oreo Cookie creatures as garnishes around the dessert buffet. Make a chocolate Oreo cream pie with an Oreo crust. Use a basic chocolate cream pie recipe. Crumble Oreo Cookies and mix with butter. Press the crumb mixture into the pie pan. Fill with a the chocolate cream filling. Top with individual Oreos and more crumbs. Also provide an Oreo cake. A great recipe for a cake that is both made from Oreos and looks like a giant Oreo can be found at Kraft Foods.