Fun Things to Do with Cookie Cutters

Have a draw full of cookie cutters hanging around? Not in the mood to make cookies? There are other things you can do with all those cutters! Don't let them sit there and continue to collect dust!

Here are some great ideas you can share with your children.

1. Trace around them like a stencil. Use construction paper to make shapes, decorate with sparkles, beads or sequins. You can also trace them onto regular, white paper for some cool coloring. Cut them out and make nice, homemade cards!

2. Use them as a learning tool. Make some homemade play dough out of the different shapes to teach your child the various animals, alphabet or any other shape. If you really want to get creative, make edible play dough and let your child eat their own creations!

3. Make bread dough shapes, let them dry and then paint them. You can spruce these up with buttons, beads or sequins also!

4. Grab them and head out to the yard for some unique mud pies. Get down and dirty. You can also make shapes in wet sand.

5. Dunk into some bubble mix and blow some odd shaped bubbles. This will work best with the smaller ones though, and you need a decent sized bowl to make sure the base of the cutter is covered in bubble stuff.

6. Scoop up all those old, broken crayons and make unique shapes to color with. Just line the bottom of your cookie cutter with aluminum foil, place the crayons inside and melt in the oven. Use another layer of aluminum foil on your cookie sheet to help prevent accidents! Bake at 350 degrees. Watch them carefully as their cooking. Don't stir them, they'll turn into pretty ugly colors, instead, let them blend together on their own for a neat effect. Take them out, cool them off and your kids can have homemade crayons!

7. Use them as a counting toy. If you have an overabundance of cookie cutters, put them in a basket or a bowl and teach your child how to count. It's a little more fun than using fingers all the time!

8. Cut a potato in half, press your cookie cutter into it and stamp onto an inkpad and you have your own unique stamp! You can use this to decorate cards or pictures to hang on the refrigerator!

Think again if you thought cookie cutters were just for cookies! There are several great things you can do with those old cookie cutters. Just use your imagination, your kids can stay busy for hours!