Making your own Christmas Games
The best way to spend the holiday

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Creating your own Christmas games is the right way to spend the holiday. This x-mass game is also a great gift for the family. It will give you hours of fun. It will make your family appreciate your imaginative ideas.

It is – the Christmas tree cookie puzzle.

The best thing to do is to let the kids take part in the making of the puzzle. It is an amazing way to spend the time together. DIY is nice but 'Do it together' is nicer.

The best part of creating your Christmas games is giving them as presents and then watching the amazement on peoples' faces.

A close second is playing with these games and thirdly, in this case, comes eating the gift.

Materials:

7 oz (200 grams) of butter
3/4 cup of sugar
1 egg
2.5 cups of flour
Candy (m&m or any other to decorate your cookies)
A bar of Chocolate
Baking sheet/paper
A ribbon

Tools:

A rolling pin
A cookie cutter (shaped as a tree) you can also use a knife to cut the shape of the tree.
A Knife
A baking tray

How to make the dough

1. Take the melted butter, one egg, 3/4 of sugar, 2.5 cups of flour and mix them together.
2. If you wish to give the dough a brown color just add 2 spoons of coco instead of 2 spoons of flour.
3. After you have mixed all the ingredients together check if the dough is not too 'soft' or 'runny'. Add flour if necessary.
4. Put the dough in the fridge for 10 minutes so it hardens.

Instruction:


1. Sprinkle flour on the table and on the rolling pin and roll the dough out so it will be about 0.2 inch thick.		2. Using the cookie cutter cut the shape of the tree at the center of the dough. Leave it there.


3. Cut out a rectangle that forms a frame around the dough (in the middle leave the tree). Take out the excess dough.		4. Using the cutter cut straight lines leading from the frame to the tree. This will create the parts of the puzzle. The parts don't have to be all equal in size. Be careful no to cut out the tree.


5. Gently Place the cookies on the baking paper. Try to keep the pieces intact.		6. Make sure that you leave enough space in between the pieces so they don't stick together.


7. in the baking tray and put it in the oven for 15 minutes for medium heat 11.25 degrees Fahrenheit or 170 degrees Celsius. Once the cookies are ready let them cool down a bit in the baking tray. If you take them out while they are worm they will crumble.		8.Once the cookies are out make sure that the pieces fit together.


9. Melt some chocolate and decorate the puzzle.		10. Decorate the tree with candy using the chocolate as glue.