One of my favorite childhood memories is eating dirt for dessert. There was a restaurant that served a flower pot dessert for kids. It was such a fun, silly and yummy treat. Who get served dirt? In a flower pot? And then loves it? Well kids of course.
Now that I’ve made them I know they are also super easy (and still super fun). YAY! Mark this one an easy spring dessert for kids that we will make again and again!
Flower Pot Dessert- Easy Spring Dessert for Kids
what you need: clay pots
, gummy worms, chocolate cookies (These links are all affiliate links, if you use the links you help support amomwithalessonplan.com. Thank you! I bought the pots and the flowers at a dollar store, you can probably find them at a craft store as well.)
- Wash the pots and the flower stems.
- Stick a piece of the cookie to the bottom of the pot. This will cover the hole and keep the pudding from slipping through.
- Make the pudding and scoop it into the pots.
- Put the chocolate cookies into a plastic bag. Smash a little. We had fun figuring out the “best” way to smash a cookie. (We used Oreo cookies, the centers made the mixtures a little creamy. Next time we might try just the cookie part).
- Scoop the cookie crumbs on top of the pudding.
- Stick a pretty spring flower in.
- Place a worm, digging it’s way out of the pudding.
- Have fun eating dirt with the kids! Yum, I love that part.
Did you enjoy flower pot dessert as a kid? Have you ever made this easy spring dessert for your kids?
This post originally appeared on April 19, 2011. As I was updating it, I decided this would make a great gift to deliver to our neighbors.
More Spring Activities
- Healthy Camping Snack – Fruit Cones
- Spring drawing for kids on a Shower Curtain (makes an awesome keepsake)
- Experimenting with materials – Rainy day fun
Oh, what a fun idea!!! My girls will LOVE this!
YEAH!!! I would love to hear about it if you make them!
This is one of our faves too! I Adore your gummy worm touch!!! Happy spring!
Happy spring to you! The gummy worms are a little fun touch, aren’t they!
how cute! ive seen this done in a magazine a few years back…the only difference is that they used a clear vase and added “worms” throughtout the vase..so that it looked like it was infested with worms…kind of gross..but kids loved it 🙂
A clear vase crawling with worms would be so much fun!
Ummm, these seems like somethign we shoudl definitely try!
They are so good, and pretty simple to make.
Love this! I am thinking this would be so much fun as a spring birthday party activity!!! Thanks for posting about this yummy dessert. I forgot how much I loved these from childhood!
Have only ever made the large pot version. These are so cute.
Am thinking of making them for an Easter yummy dessert as we don’t do a lot of candy.
Thanks so much !!