Creative Ideas for Spring Break at Home
15 year old Katie Hollstein has some fun and creative ways to spend spring break at home. Watch the segment and check out her instructions below for cake pops and homemade flower headbands.
Katie’s Cake Pops
Things you’ll need:
• 1 box cake mix
• 1 tub of frosting
• Candy melts, or chocolate
• Sucker sticks
1. Prepare and bake any box cake mix.
2. Let cool then crumble entire cake into a bowl.
3. Mix in ¾ tub of frosting until it develops a thick consistency.
4. Roll into small balls and place on wax paper on a cookie sheet.
5. Freeze for 1 hour.
6. Dip sucker stick in melted chocolate or candy melts roughly a ½ inch, then place stick ½ way through cake ball.
7. Refrigerate for 10 min.
8. Dip entire cake pop in melted chocolate or candy melts and decorate.
9. Enjoy!
Homemade Flower Headbands
Things you’ll need:
• Fabric
• Hot glue gun or sewing machine
1. Cut a fabric circle the size you want your flower.
2. Cut slit half way through.
3. Turn fabric over.
4. Fold flap back.
5. Turn fabric over.
6. Fold flab over.
7. Continue accordion fold until it creates a triangle.
8. Hot glue or sew to hold triangle together.
9. Hot glue or sew 4 together at the tips.
10. Attach to headband, elastic or hair clip
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