It is my turn to do snacks for preschool again. It seems like just yesterday I was dipping and decorating eleventy billion pretzel rod monsters. I couldn’t believe how hard I had to scour the internet for non-dessert Christmas themed snacks that were preschool appropriate. I found an image of some biscuit snowman, but they were pretty plain jane(sorry I couldn’t find it again to credit it)Update: Thanks to reader Amanda, here is the original inspiration from Family Corner. I decided to add a few more fun details and spice them up a little.

This project would be really fun to do where the kids decorate their own snowmen. I think I want to do this again with just my own children.
Supplies:

• Pillsbury Refrigerated Biscuits(3 per snowman)
• Pretzel Sticks (arms)
• Raisins (buttons)
• Mini-Chocolate Chips (Eyes and mouth)
• Candy Corn (Nose)
• Optional: Fruit Roll-up or Pull and Peel Licorice (scarf)

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees
2. Spray your cookie sheet with Pam
3. Lay out three biscuits to form the snowman body. Make sure you press them together well so they will be nice and sturdy when baked. I had a two bottom segments fall off when I picked them up because they weren’t baked together enough.
4. Insert pretzel sticks into the second body segment for the arms.
5. Push some raisins down into the biscuit a little ways for buttons. If you are doing a scarf, don’t start right at the top of the neck, leave some room.
6. With the mini-chips push in two eyes and 4 chips for a mouth. Make sure you leave plenty of room for the candy corn nose.
7. The package of biscuits says to cook 8-10 minutes. The first batch I put in for 8 and they were a little too tan for snowmen. I went with 6 minutes for all the rest, and I thought they were great. Completely cooked, but not a lot of color on the top yet.
8. Insert the candy corn nose at an angle. I pushed them in about as far as to cover the white tip. They might also be cute if you inserted the yellow end in first. I didn’t think to try that at the time.
9. Move them to a cooling rack and allow to completely cool.
10. Using kitchen shears, cut a rolled up Fruit Roll-up into 1/2″ to 3/4″ inch pieces. Unroll each segment and attach your scarf. Note: I found it easiest to take each strip and break it into two pieces. One for the hanging down part and one to go across the neck. If you wrap it all the way around the snowman neck, you will probably need two pieces and it will stick.

My son loved them this morning, so I think they will be a big hit with his class!

Update: The Fruit Roll-Ups got pretty sticky when it was time to eat them. So next time I am definitely going with licorice!

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