Earth Day Cookies

Ingredients: 

1 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

2 3/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

blue and green food gel

Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg and vanilla. 

Mix the dry ingredients in a small bowl. Gradually add to the wet ingredients. Divide the dough in two. Add blue food coloring to one and green to the other. 

Pull little pieces off of each half until you have about 1tbsp of dough. Roll the pieces together and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 

Bake at 375 for about 8 minutes. Let them sit for a minute or so on the baking sheet and then remove to a cooling rack. 

Another activity we did for Earth Day this year was to make dirt cups and plant some flowers in them. I got a bundle of flowers from the Dollar Tree and some green straws. We cut off a flower and placed in in the straw and then planted them in the dirt cups.