Rochellejacobs

Thanks. They are a great cookie and a really sweet memory of my mom.

I just googled Kiffels and got all kinds of new ideas for fillings! Thank you for this comment!

I know! It's so tempting to want to fill them with more jam than they can handle. We are both lucky to have memories of our mom's baking cookies for special occaisons.

Hi, I thought this might make you smile. When I do a project in my classroom, whenever possible, I write a "mini" Instructable on the board, in case after explaining the project, kids want to review steps. I never really thought about it before. But today one of my first graders, made a playdough monster and he said, "Ms. Jacobs, I wrote out the plan in case you want to make this someday." I don't know if you are fluent in first grade writing, but it says," 1 piece of playdough. Step One, Roll it out. Put it on the table." He had another page, but I forgot to take a picture of it. A future Instructables writer?!!!

Hey, thanks. My students have really gotten into it. I hope other teachers try it out. These mandalas are great to calm down the classroom in a creative way.

I've used 5 out of the 10 "First Grade Tinkering Lessons," and they've all been great. This is my fa...