Painted Sugar Cookies

I have a 2 year old daughter, and some days it is difficult to keep her occupied.  While I was pregnant with our 2nd daughter, I had to come up with ways to entertain my 2 year old indoors.  At the time she was only 21 months old...so this is what I came up with! 

"PAINTED" Sugar Cookies!!  And let me tell you, she LOVED it!! 

I followed a basic sugar cookie recipe.  Mine came out really soft and chewy, perfect for little teeth like a toddler!  (So that is something to consider when picking out a cookie recipe!)

Next, I followed a basic powdered sugar icing recipe.  (Sorry, no recipes for these can be found on the blog.)  I then split up the icing into small containers and added food coloring to each one...they all came out to be beautiful pastel colors!

I sat my daughter in her high chair and first handed her a paint brush and explained what we were about to do with the cookies!  (She was at first more interested in tasting the cookies.)  ;)

I then handed her the icing and let her paint away.  She loved it!!

And of course she *HAD* to taste the icing!!

I didn't get pictures of us adding sprinkles, but I had a container with 4 different colors of sprinkles that I added to the top.  *She chose the colors of sprinkles for EACH cookie and we talked about the colors as I added sprinkles for her.*  This was a great and TASTY learning experience for her!!

Our finished products!