Easy Back to School Party Cookie Snacks

Treat your kids to a fun lunchbox or after school snack with these easy back to school cookie crafts. Using simple ingredients from the grocery store, you can easily assemble cookies to look like chalkboard, textbooks or laptops to get your kids excited about going back to school. Either make them in secret and surprise your kids with the special school snacks or turn cookie making into a fun family activity after school.

Chalkboard Cookies - Make your child personalized chalkboard cookies and you can use white icing to make the mini black boards say whatever you. Purchase rectangle shaped chocolate coated graham cookies, like Grasshopper cookies. Pipe a thin line of yellow or red icing as a border around the chalkboard cookie. Then use a fine tip to pipe letters, symbols or pictures in white "chalk" on the school black board. You can write your child's name, school name, draw a sketch of the school mascot, or even put math equations. Whatever you write will look like white chalk writing on the chocolate cookie black board. Make a personalized chalkboard cookie for each student in your child's class, including his teachers, for the first day of school.

Textbook Newtons - Get your child excited about learning new stories by decorating Newton cookies, in any flavor, to resemble back to school textbooks. Place the Newton cookie treats vertically on a tray. Use black icing with a fine, decorator tip to pipe an outline around the rectangle. Write the textbook cookie's title across the front. Pipe the title along the rounded Newton's edge. Next, lightly trim the cookie edge off the opposite long edge. The exposed fruit in the Newton cookie will resemble pages on three sides of the textbook. You can also use food-safe food coloring markers instead of piping decorator's icing. Make a Newton cookie textbook for every title on your child's back to school reading list or for each subject in their new schedule. These back to school treats are also great for English and Language Arts teachers to make for their classes.

Laptop Cookies - Laptop cookies are a little more involved than the easier, previous two, but they also include more ingredients which provides several different flavors. Begin with one-half of a graham cracker, about three inches square. Place a dollap of icing in the center of the graham cracker. Press a chocolate coated graham cracker, like Keebler's Grasshopper cookies, flat onto the icing to secure it. Then pipe a thick line of icing along the top, horizontal edge of the chocolate graham. Stick a second chocolate graham into the icing, perpendicular to the first, so it resembles a laptop screen opened above the keyboard. Using a fine decorator's tip on white icing pipe dots and short dashes to resemble keyboard keys on the lower, flat cookie. Then draw rectangle laptop screen in white icing on the top cookie. Next to the chocolate laptop cookie, on the original graham cracker base, place a small piece of candy for the mouse. You can use M&Ms minis or another small candy. Pipe a wire from the mouse to the back of the laptop with black icing.

You can use these easy back to school treats to top cupcakes or decorate large sheet cakes. Make a variety to tuck into your child's lunchbox for a back to school lunch time surprise, make afterschool as a fun activity with the family or make a few dozen to share with the whole class.