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🦃Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies plus Thanksgiving Place Cards & Candy Dishes
I wanted to share with you my Turkey Cookies, Thanksgiving Place Cards and Sunflower Candy Dishes that I made to get ready for Thanksgiving. I shopped for Thanksgiving recipe ingredients, home décor and serving dishes at Family Dollar and saved $6.50 by using Smart Coupons. Sign-up for Smart Coupons, digital coupons that you access by entering your phone number into the keypad at the register. You’ll find a wide selection of over 130 coupons with values ranging from $0.25 to $5.00. Take advantage of the newest way to save at Family Dollar by using Smart Coupons!
Have you signed up for Smart Coupons at Family Dollar? I love saving money at Family Dollar without using a loyalty card. I just clip my coupons, email them to myself so I have a printable list, then go shopping at Family Dollar where I enter my phone number into the keypad at the register. I love that Family Dollar issues a wide variety of high-value coupons. Be on the lookout for coupons valid on any purchase! You should check the Family Dollar site on a regular basis for the most up to date offers as they change frequently.
I saved $6.50 by clipping Smart Coupons for my Family Dollar shopping trip. My savings included a $5 off $25+ coupon on any purchase, a Lemonheads coupon, and a Russell Stover coupon. Please check the Family Dollar website for the current Smart Coupons. With over 130 coupons to choose from, you’re sure to find a few coupons that you can use!
I also browsed the Weekly Deals at Family Dollar to see the price drops and help me make my shopping list. I was impressed with the selection of Thanksgiving décor, serving ware and candy. Many of the Thanksgiving décor products I looked at were priced at $1 WOW (which is a very good price!). Be sure to take advantage of other ways to save at Family Dollar including weekly deals and $1 WOW prices. Please note that prices vary by location. What will you buy at Family Dollar to decorate your Thanksgiving table?
If you’ve got a Family Dollar store near you, I encourage you to sign-up for Smart Coupons today:
Step 1 – Click the red “Sign Up” button or text SMART to 28767
Step 2 – Enter your email address, password, name and phone number. Then click on the red “Sign Up” button.
Step 3 – Click on the red “Start Clipping” button
Step 4 – Click on the coupons you want to add to your account.
Step 5 – Print your shopping list and head to Family Dollar! Enter your phone number into the keypad at the register.
I had a blast making Turkey Cookies from Nutter Butter cookies and Golden OREOs. They are easy to make and your kids can help make them! This is an “assembly only” recipe, so no baking is involved! Here are the instructions to make them:
TURKEY COOKIES
Ingredients Needed:
- Golden OREO cookies
- Nutter Butter cookies
- Reese’s Pieces
- Candy Eyes
- Candy Corn
- Orange Frosting
- Red Frosting
- White Frosting
Step 1 – Secure the Golden OREO cookie to the Nutter Butter cookie with a generous dab of white frosting so that the top of the Nutter Butter cookie touches the middle of the Golden OREO cookie
Step 2 – Secure both eyes to the Nutter Butter cookie using a very small dab of white frosting
Step 3 – Secure one orange Reese’s Pieces with orange frosting below the eyes
Step 4 – Apply red frosting for the turkey gizzard using a Wilton 16 frosting tip (small star shaped)
Step 5 – Secure 5 candy corns to the Golden OREO for feathers by applying a dab of white frosting to the yellow tip of each candy corn
Step 6 – Let your Turkey Cookies set to dry for at least an hour to secure all the pieces to the cookies
Next I made Thanksgiving Place Cards for our table setting. I found these adorable toothpick holders and I knew I could easily turn them into Thanksgiving Place Cards. I loved that I could get different ones for different people. Here are the instructions on how to make them:
THANKSGIVING PLACE CARDS
Supplies Needed:
- Thanksgiving Toothpick Holders
- Plastic Pencil Grips (or small pieces of foam)
- Black Chalkboard Stickers
- Orange Cardstock
- White Chalk
- Tootsie Pops
- Tape
Step 1 – Write names with white chalk on the black chalkboard stickers
Step 2 – Place stickers on orange cardstock and then cut around them
Step 3 – Secure names to Tootsie Pop with a long piece of tape
Step 4 – Stick a plastic pencil grip (or small piece of foam) inside an empty Thanksgiving Toothpick Holder
Step 5 – Place Tootsie Pop inside plastic pencil grip (or stick into small piece of foam) and then tape so the Tootsie Pop will not rotate
Step 6 – Set at each place setting for your Thanksgiving Table so everyone knows where they are sitting
While I was shopping at Family Dollar, I also picked up these fall leaf tealight candle holders. I made them into Thanksgiving Candy Dishes by placing lemon drops in them with one whopper in the middle. They remind me of my favorite flower, a sunflower, and it’s a nice sweet treat for your Thanksgiving guests.
I love the serving dishes they have at Family Dollar for Thanksgiving. I bought turkey and pumpkin serving dishes for my Thanksgiving Table at super affordable prices.
Here’s what my Thanksgiving Place Setting looks like. I liked putting the Turkey Cookie on the dinner plate, the Thanksgiving Place Card near the glass and the Thanksgiving Candy Dish near the salad plate. In the background you can see my DIY Fall Centerpiece that I made with home décor I found at Family Dollar.
Remember to clip your Smart Coupons for Family Dollar so you’re ready to save money too! All you have to do to apply your coupons to your purchase is to enter your phone number into the keypad at the register. It’s a smart money-saving move to help you prepare for Thanksgiving!
Please share my Thanksgiving ideas with your friends by retweeting me below:
Make my Turkey Cookies for your #Thanksgiving
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— Freebies 4 Mom (@Freebies4Mom) November 17, 2016
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I’m sharing these fun Thanksgiving recipes and table settings with you again (originally published Nov. 17, 2016).
👻Halloween Recipes: Cyclops Punch, Who’s Buried in the Brownie? MonsterDoodle Cookies
Are you looking for easy Halloween recipes to help sweeten up your Halloween celebrations this week? I’ve got three recipes to share with you. I want to share a super easy (and a little bit spooky) Who’s Buried in the Brownie? recipe using Mars Minis. I’m brewing up a super fruity Cyclops Halloween Punch using Hawaiian Punch and 7UP. And I’ve got a fun way of using M&M’s in a snickerdoodle cookie to turn them into MonsterDoodle Cookies. I hope you enjoy my Halloween Recipes and I’d love to hear how you give dessert a spooky twist at your house!
I used the Mars Chocolate Minis (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix and 3 Musketeers) to add a sweet surprise inside my brownies. I call them Who’s Buried in the Brownie? because you don’t know which candy was buried in your brownie until you bite into it – even then it’s a little tough to guess. Now I didn’t plan on my brownies imploding – but a few of them did and I rolled with it by using white frosting to create a skeleton hand reaching out of the brownie instead of a tombstone with a question mark on it. Place the wrapped Minis around the brownies so your family can start guessing what’s buried inside their brownie!
- 1 box of Brownie Mix
- Oil, Water & Eggs (as instructed on box)
- Mars Minis (Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers)
- White Frosting (small tube)
- Follow the instructions on the box of Brownie Mix to preheat the oven and combine all ingredients
- Scoop just enough brownie batter to cover the bottom of your each square in the pan then place one Mars Minis in the middle.
- Cover each Mars Minis with batter then cook for recommended time on box (should take less time than a large pan).
- Cool brownies after they finish baking and decorate with tombstones and skeleton hands using the small tube of white frosting.
Mix together Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red, 7UP, and apple juice to create Cyclops Halloween Punch. I wanted to make a fruity punch with a Halloween twist to it, so I used slices of lemon and green grape halves to create a “Cyclops Eye” on top of each cup of punch. To use the lemon ends that didn’t go into decorating, I squeezed them into the punch to add more zing.
- Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red
- 7UP
- Apple Juice
- Lemons (1 lemon per 4 servings)
- Green Grapes (fresh grapes for cyclops eyes, frozen grapes for edible ice cubes)
- Freeze green grapes to use as edible ice cubes.
- Mix 3 parts of Hawaiian Punch with 1 part 7UP and 1 part apple juice into a punch bowl (so if you measure out 3 cups of Hawaiian Punch then you'll add 1 cup 7Up and 1 cup apple juice to it).
- Add the frozen green grapes to the punch bowl.
- Slice the lemons using the middle slices as cyclops eyes (4 slices from the middle of each lemon. Squeeze the lemon ends into the Cyclops Punch.
- Slice the green grapes for the center of the cyclops eye.
- Serve the Cyclops Punch by pouring into a clear plastic cup and adding the slice of lemon and green grape half.
It’s so easy to make my MonsterDoodle Cookies because you use a snickerdoodle cookie mix and just add M&M’s to it both before and after they bake.
- 1 box of snickerdoodle cookie mix
- Egg & Butter (as instructed on box)
- M&M's (at least 2 cups)
- Follow the instructions on the box of snickerdoodle cookie mix to prehead the oven and combine all ingredients.
- Stir in 1 cup of M&M's last.
- Use a scoop or spoon to form balls of dough, roll in the cinnamon sugar and place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake following the directions on the box. Immediately after removing them from the oven, press one M&M into the middle of each cookie.
Halloween Recipes: Cyclops Punch, Who’s Buried in the Brownie? MonsterDoodle Cookies #SpookyCelebration #cbias #shop
Halloween baking is so much sweeter with Mars Chocolate and you’ll discover more delicious Halloween recipes at Bright Ideas. Vampire Bites anyone? This post is sponsored by Collective Bias®. My opinions are my own and they are not edited by Collective Bias®. Please visit my Disclosure Policy.
