National Pretzel Day with kids!

Our Pretzel Day banner we made last year!

Today is National Pretzel Day!

Last year we held a Pretzel Making Fun Day and the kids LOVED it so much that its now an annual request!  We have been busy with so many other educational fun days that we will not be celebrating this day today. The kids will have fun with pretzel making in days to come.  We will be visiting a local pretzel making factory so the kids can see and learn how pretzels are made.

You can check out last year's Pretzel Day post by clicking HERE and HERE.  Try to get out there today and get your free pretzel at your own local pretzel store!  You can download or print out our favorite recipe HERE or click on link below image below.  Also at the bottom of this post, we provided Pretzel Company that are giving away FREE pretzels today!

Pretzel Recipe

We made the directional placemats!

Here is a list of Pretzel companies giving away FREE pretzels today:

If you live on the East Coast you can try to find a local Philly Pretzel store to recieve a FREE Pretzel today!  Click HERE for their website

Pretzel Maker is giving away free pretzels - Click HERE to find a store near you.

National Pretzel Day with Kids!

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah…………………………. Today is pretzel day!!!!!!!

We all love pretzels and boy did we enjoy today. We started off by painting a banner and Lauren painted the salt on the letters. Very occupational, placing all those dots on the letters. Believe it or not pretzels are tricky to twist and create so we knew the kids would have to practice. So, we broke out the playdoh and practiced rolling and twisting the pretzels.

Then we came up with a work mat from posterboard and brown paint that the kids could work on and follow to make the pretzels. We covered the mat with contact paper and taped them to the table to create a work station for each person. When the dough was ready to twist we used a pizza cutter and cut each person a strip of dough to work with.

The mats were the greatest idea for this day; the kids used them to roll the dough and twist it and really did a good job creating the pretzels. Into the oven for 10 minutes and we had hot yummy pretzels to work with. Next came the very fun part, we dipped the pretzels into melted butter and then into a pan of cinnamon sugar, Yummy! This was so fun. The kids had a great time doing all the work and we all had a really fun dessert for all of us to eat. We utilized all of the senses today, smell, taste, touch, hearing (classical music today) and of course the visual. This created an atmosphere where all of us could work and truly enjoy our day.

FUN, FUN, FUN, We can't wait to do this again next year!!!!!!