🪱 Graveyard Dirt Cups

Dirt Cups for kids: the whole recipe

Let's dig a pudding graveyard full of wiggly gummy worms! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 10 (grades K–4th), takes about 15 minutes and serves 4. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 2 cups chocolate pudding
• 12 chocolate sandwich cookies
• 8 gummy worms

Tools

Cups or glasses, A big spoon, A zip-top bag, A rolling pin.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Spoon 2 cups of chocolate pudding into clear cups, about two-thirds full.
3. Put 12 chocolate sandwich cookies in a zip-top bag, but keep one whole for each cup.
4. Seal the bag and bash it with a rolling pin till it's crumbly dirt!
5. Sprinkle the dirt on top of the pudding.
6. Wiggle 8 gummy worms into the dirt, so their tails stick out.
7. Stand a whole cookie up at the back of each cup: a little gravestone!
8. Grab a spoon and dig for worms!

Safety notes

• Contains milk, wheat, soy. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Hard or chewy candy is a choking risk for little ones under 4: leave it off for them.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.
• A bit messy.

Kitchen science

Pudding is thick because starch swells up in the milk, so it holds the worms up like real, squishy mud.

Make it your own

• Write BOO on the cookie gravestones with a little white icing.
• Make a beach cup: vanilla pudding and crushed graham crackers for sand.
• Hide one more gummy worm at the very bottom to find.

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