What you'll need:

• 1/4 cup of white chocolate chips
• 6 large marshmallows
• Finely shredded coconut
• Chocolate sandwich cookie (we used a chocolate-covered Oreo)
• 6 Cashews
• Black decorators' gel

      How to make it:

1. Melt 1/4 cup of white chocolate chips according to the package directions.
2. For each bird, drop a large marshmallow into the melted chocolate, using a spatula to coat it well.
3. Remove the marshmallow from the chocolate and roll it in finely shredded coconut, leaving one end uncovered.
4. Immediately set the marshmallow, coconut free end down, atop a chocolate sandwich cookie.
5. Let the chocolate set a bit, then use a toothpick to make a hole in the side of the marshmallow and insert a cashew for a beak.
6. Finally, add black decorators' gel eyes.

      What you'll need:

• Blue food coloring
• Red food coloring
• Your favorite cookie dough or try Easy Sugar Cookie Dough

     How to make it:

1. Use food coloring paste to tint 1/3 of the dough red & another 1/3 blue. Knead the dough to evenly distribute color. Leave the last 1/3 untinted.
2. Chill the dough until it's firm, then roll out each color and cut out a bunch of larger stars.
3. With a medium-size cutter, cut a star from the center of each large star.
4. Now use the medium stars to fill in the centers of contrasting larger stars. lightly pressing them in place.
5. Lightly press the medium stars into the larger stars' centers.
6. Using a third, smaller cutter, you can even create tricolored stars.