{"id":7189,"date":"2011-12-12T06:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2011-12-12T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:58:58","slug":"sugar-cone-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/sugar-cone-christmas-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Cone Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another activity I&#8217;ve seen all over Pinterest and the many blogs I read, and I made it part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/activity-advent-calendar\/\">Activity Advent Calendar<\/a> this year. \u00c2\u00a0You cover ice cream cones in green frosting (or the color of your choice) to look like Christmas trees, then decorate them with candy. \u00c2\u00a0We decorated ours with mini M &amp; Ms, which stuck nicely to the frosting. \u00c2\u00a0I intended to buy M &amp;Ms in the regular colors and wound up with Christmas colors, but it was no big deal. \u00c2\u00a0I also had lots of Christmas sprinkles on hand, but they didn&#8217;t stick well to our frosting. \u00c2\u00a0The Littlest Apple enjoyed spreading the frosting onto the sugar cone and sticking the M&amp;M&#8217;s on the tree&#8230;he stuck with that a lot longer than I expected! \u00c2\u00a0I like how his M&amp;M&#8217;s aren&#8217;t stuck flat to the tree. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Of course, his favorite part was eating his creation at the end! \u00c2\u00a0This could be a great project for a larger group of kids!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sugar-Cone-Christmas-Tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7190\" title=\"Sugar Cone Christmas Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sugar-Cone-Christmas-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sugar-Cone-Christmas-Tree.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sugar-Cone-Christmas-Tree-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/sugar-cone-christmas-trees\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another activity I&#8217;ve seen all over Pinterest and the many blogs I read, and I made it part of our Activity Advent Calendar this year. \u00c2\u00a0You cover ice cream cones in green frosting (or the color of your choice) to look like Christmas trees, then decorate them with candy. \u00c2\u00a0We decorated ours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,66,20,37,49,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-crafts","category-dessert","category-holiday","category-motherhood","category-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}