Craftibilities: event

We made a fondue tray as one of our NYE balloon pop countdown ideas this year.

I tried The Melting Pot Oreo and Graham Cracker covered marshmallows.

They were so easy and tasted amazing!!!

I also made tray for one and a larger tray for a Dungeons and Dragons session.

The first to go were the marshmallows.

Supplies:

Ziplock bags

Rolling pin

Cup/bowl of water

Oreo cookies / graham crackers

I only had mini Oreos. I used two bags but had a lot left over. I made 8 large marshmallows.

I would think 4-5 regular size cookies would be plenty for the same amount.

2 graham crackers to make 8 marshmallows.

Remove all the center cream/icing from the Oreo cookies.

Place in a ziplock bag and remove the air.

Roll until almost a powder consistency.

Hold the marshmellow and use your finger to add a small amount of water to the entire marshmallow. Rub gently the water in and the marshmallow will become sticky.

Drop in the bag of crushed Oreo cookies, hold bag closed and shake. Make sure the entire marshmallow is covered. Repeat.

I made them and immediately served. They dry pretty quick.

I'm not sure if you can make these in advance and store in a container. I would think the cookie coating would become stale. Let me know if you try.

NYE tray

Angel food cake

Brownie bites

Strawberries

Pineapple

Rice Krispie treats

Oreo covered marshmallows

Graham cracker covered marshmallows

FAVORITES:

1. Oreo & graham cracker covered marshmallows

2. Strawberries & pineapple

3. Rice Krispie treats

Individual tray

Strawberries

Pineapple

Rice Krispie treats

Oreo covered marshmallows

Graham cracker covered marshmallows

FAVORITES:

ALL

D&D session tray

Brownie bites

Strawberries

Pinapple

Rice Krispie treats

Oreo covered marshmallows

Graham cracker covered marshmallows

Mini Nutter Butter cookies

Keebler Fudge Stripes cookies

FAVORITES:

1. Oreo & graham cracker covered marshmallows

2. Strawberries (didn't eat the pineapple at all)

3. Rice Krispie treats

They ate all the other cookies & brownie bites without the melted chocolate.

Six boys and I gave them individual cups of melted chocolate.

I was lazy and just used bakers chocolate and melted in the microwave.

Microwave: 30 seconds on high, stir, and repeat until melted.

If you are looking for a fancier chocolate recipe I think this one sounded good.

Other ideas to use for dipping:

Bananas

Apples

Red velvet cake squares

Cheese cake squares

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We started this family tradition in 2012!!!

We missed last year because we moved right before Christmas and no time to plan. :(

Now, it's back! Here's our 2018 NYE balloon pop!

Can you believe I found ALL our NYE decorations at the grocery store!?

11:00am was a joke.

Since they were barely up for breakfast AND teenagers, we told them we were keeping everything age appropriate. They laughed because both of them wanted to play games. I told them the next balloon will have them hide in their room all day with snacks. Lol.

Slow motion video HERE

Yup! I have amazing dogs and they do amazing-ish tricks.

This was more for laughs. I told them everything was planned and controlled chaos was part of the show. That it was.

They are all very smart but Archie (poodle on the right) does do several tricks. BUT he's so eager that he sometimes will do ALL of his tricks in a matter of seconds to get a treat.

Everyone had a good laugh.

He just got a bike for Christmas and I knew he would love this balloon pop.

With that said, he kicked my butt. This was only my second time riding his 'heart attack hills' route but he said I did awesome. Yeah, I only had to walk ONE TIME this ride. Lol.

They played Eraser Bounce. You try to bounce all the pencils into the cups. I should've had some ground rules that if the pencil goes in but knocks the cup over, which most did, that it counts. Then they played Rice Race. I used a sharpie to color 5 pieces of rice red. The person to find the most in a minute, without spilling, wins.

BUT MY FAVORITE GAME WAS MATCH IT!!!

Parenting WIN!!! The tie breaker game was called Match It. Number of correctly matched socks. No time limit. I've never seen two teens so excited about laundry. Now I'm thinking we should've played mop it, dishes up, trash out. Haha!

We played games and got some laundry put up. WIN! WIN!

The winner of the Minute To Win It games received a $5 lottery ticket. I picked up some $1 tickets for them to scratch for this balloon pop. Super easy.

This is a new game that my older son gave to his brother for Christmas. It's pretty fun but better with more people. Basically you are given a topic and everyone, except The Chameleon, has a way to figure out the word within the topic. The Chameleon has no idea but must say a word to make everyone thinks they know it or blend in.

For example, the topic was drinks. Card shows beer, soda, coffee, milk, etc. We had a code to figure out the word was hot chocolate. The Chameleon had to go first with no idea the correct word and he said disgusting. He went off the fact that most of the drinks were something he didn't like or wouldn't drink. I think only two were something he liked. He said he had a good percentage that disgusting would work. Next we say a word that shows we know it but don't give it completely away. The Chameleon has a chance to guess. We said brown and hot. He guessed coffee. We got a point!

I almost blew this surprise. The night before I made an apple crumble to give to the new neighbors and one to keep. After dinner we had 15 minutes until this balloon pop. I grabbed it from their hands and told them to wait a little for their dinner to settle. Lol!

We've made this in a skillet before but our skillets are huge. We decided to use a smaller pan and roast the marshmallows in the toaster. Don't laugh, it worked great!

We've didn't have enough Hershey bars so we used a few kisses to line the bottom and then top with marshmallows. Placed in the toaster (open so not to melt the handle of the pan) until the marshmallows were toasty.

SO GOOD!