Easy Turkey Pretzels – Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft

Adorable turkey pretzels. This Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft is perfect for little hands. Chocolate dipped pretzels, cookies, and candy corn make an adorable Thanksgiving treat for kids – gobble, gobble!

Chocolate Covered Turkey Pretzels

I love sharing kids food crafts with you on the Rachael Ray Show last October. This year we have another fun one – a Thanksgiving Turkey Pretzel Candy Corn Stick. It’s a great way to recycle leftover Halloween Candy!

These will be a huge hit at your Friendsgiving Thanskgiving.

Turkey Pretzels Ingredients:

• 12 Pretzel Rods
• 12 Grasshoper Cookies (or other chocolate covered cookies)
• 24 Candy eyes
• 84 Candy Corns
• 12 Orange Reese’s Pieces
• 1/2 cup Chocolate Melting Chips or Bark
• 1/8 cup red Candy Melting Chips

Turkey Pretzels Directions:

1. Lay cookies out on wax paper leaving room for pretzel rods to lay on top of each cookie without touching each other.
2. Using a spoon drizzle a little chocolate around on cookie to glue candy corn in place.
3. Heat Chocolate Chips in tall glass or cup by microwaving for 30 seconds stirring and repeating until melted. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes.
4. Dip pretzel 2/3 way in melted chocolate and roll to coat completely. Shake off excess.
5. Lay on wax paper on top of cookie as shown in picture.
6. Place candy corn in fan shape on cookie around pretzel rod.
7. Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
8. Using a spoon place a little chocolate to “glue in place eyes and Reese’s Piece on end for beak.
9. Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
10. Clip corner of bag and pipe a waddle under the beak of each turkey.
11. Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.

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Turkey Pretzels – Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft

• Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Adorable turkey pretzels. This Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft is perfect for little hands. Chocolate dipped pretzels, cookies, and candy corn make an adorable Thanksgiving treat for kids – gobble, gobble!

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Ingredients

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• 12 Pretzel Rods
• 12 Grasshoper Cookies (or other chocolate covered cookies)
• 24 Candy eyes
• 84 Candy Corns
• 12 Orange Reese’s Pieces
• 1/2 cup Chocolate Melting Chips or Bark
• 1/8 cup red Candy Melting Chips

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Instructions

1. Lay cookies out on wax paper leaving room for pretzel rods to lay on top of each cookie without touching each other.
2. Using a spoon drizzle a little chocolate around on cookie to glue candy corn in place.
3. Heat Chocolate Chips in tall glass or cup by microwaving for 30 seconds stirring and repeating until melted. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes.
4. Dip pretzel 2/3 way in melted chocolate and roll to coat completely. Shake off excess.
5. Lay on wax paper on top of cookie as shown in picture.
6. Place candy corn in fan shape on cookie around pretzel rod.
7. Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
8. Using a spoon place a little chocolate to “glue in place eyes and Reese’s Piece on end for beak.
9. Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
10. Clip corner of bag and pipe a waddle under the beak of each turkey.
11. Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.

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Last Updated on November 1, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living