What can I make or bake with 6year old

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Last year we made salt dough decorations. It was fun to do something like that together. I’m not a crafty person and I’m a crap baker and cook.
Does anyone have any easy Christmassy things we can make or bake together? Please nothing too difficult, I really am useless

Chocolate refrigerator cake. Just melt the chocolate, butter & syrup, add a load of ingredients (we use crystallised ginger, smashed digestive biscuits & cranberries at Christmas, and pop in the fridge.

We’re also making snowflakes for the windows - circles of white paper, folded into 4 or 8 (half, then again etc) and snipping with scissors.

The Works had some great little decoration kits that are a bit like Hama beads for £1. My nearly six year old needed very little help (apart from the ironing).

A gingerbread house (from a kit - ikea is fine) has a big wow factor but isn’t very difficult. The trick is to get one corner up and let it harden a bit before you do the rest. And then go wild with sweets and candy canes

Christmas biscuits - a really basic vanilla biscuit recipe - cut out with Christmas shapes and let them decorate when cooked. Super simple

Mince pie tart. Get ready rolled sweet pastry and a jar of mincemeat, roll it out, filled one side with mincemeat and fold the other half over. Don't make it too thick, cut out Christmas shapes and initials of the family.

Gingerbread Men, shortbread, pastries shaped in stars or trees.
fairy cakes with xmas decorations,

Easy - Mince pies. Get some mincemeat, icing sugar and ready=roll pastry.
Cut the pastry into circles, press into baking tin (muffin tin type thing). Add a spoonful of mincemeat. Cut a star or other festive shape and bung it on top of the mincemeat. When they're cooked, sprinkle with iciing sugar.

Easier - paper chains. Buy ready cut or cut your own.

Mincepie pinwheels x

Shortbread is nice and simple, you can cut into Christmas shapes or even turn them into stained glass biscuits.

Paper chains
Shortbread

I second the gingerbread house... I got my kit from Asda this year and Aldi last year, both were good.
It's lots of fun decorating the house together and then looks lovely as an added Xmas decoration...well at least it would but my DS ate it immediately this year 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I did chocolate bark very easily with my 3 year old to give as gifts. We did 3 kinds - White chocolate with crumbled candy cane and Christmas trees made from bits of mint matchmaker for the trunk and green writing icing for the tree, dark with Smarties scattered and icing joining them to look like Christmas lights, and milk with reindeer - pretzels snapped in half for antlers, edible eyes which I just bought and red Smarties for Rudolf noses. It really was incredibly easy and the results were pretty good. This is also coming from someone who absolutely failed at a gingerbread house last year 😂

I am making a gingerbread house today with my six year old. I buy a kit from Aldi or IKEA and loads of extra sweets. She loves helping construct it and then spends ages putting all the sweets on. The kids then gradually eat all the sweets off again in the run up to Christmas!

Nigella's rocky road. I have literally just thrown a tray of it together for dd's sleepover tonight- 10 mins and apart from melting the chocolate, no cooking. You can adapt the recipe as well according to what you've got.

Easy microwave choc fudge!

400g chocolate and 1 tin of condensed milk. Break up the choc in chunks, add the milk and whack in microwave for 2 mins (stirring every 20 seconds or so). Add different things for flavouring. Today we are making fruit and nut flavour so once cooked add chopped nuts and fruit, we are also making a mint choc one with peppermint essence and once poured into a tin crushed candy canes scattered on the top

I’ve just made melting snowman biscuits at the school Christmas fair. Just give it a google, Children of that age loved it as does my own 6yo...

Nigella's biscuit cutter cookie dough
www.nigella.com/recipes/butter-cut-out-cookies

and

Christmas decoration gingerbread dough
www.nigella.com/recipes/edible-christmas-tree-decorations

are both great recipes for making biscuit shapes that don't spread in the oven.