Ice cream cones dipped in chocolate and adorned with patriotic sprinkles are a simple, fun, food craft to include the kids.

The patriotic holidays have always been a big deal at our house.  But now that we have a member of the Army in the immediate family, we go all out!  I wanted to include our four and five year old grandchildren in the preparation this year, so I thought we could try some chocolate dipped and decorated ice cream cones.  This is a very kid friendly food activity.  And you get ice cream at the end . . . I suspect this helped keep them motivated to finish (wink).

I started with three colors of the chocolate wafers from the local craft store, along with some fun red, white and blue sprinkles.

Melt them in the microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time, stir and repeat.

Now comes the fun part . . . dip and swirl each cone into the melted chocolate.  Allow excess to drip off, decorate with contrasting sprinkles and sit on a piece of wax paper to cool.

Fill with your favorite ice cream and enjoy!

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