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Olympic Gold Medal Cookie & Torch Craft by Cindy Hopper for Alphamom.com
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Olympic Medal Cookies!

By Cindy Hopper

The 2024 Summer Olympics start on Friday, July 26th in Paris and conclude on Sunday, August 11.

Go for the gold with these Olympic medal cookies! This is an easy-peasy craft.

Olympic Medal cookie
Make your favorite cookies and gather some gold foil, patriotic ribbon and hot glue.

Supplies for making Olympic medal cookies
Wrap cookies in the gold foil.

Wrapping cookies in gold foil
Fasten with a drop of hot glue, making sure not to touch the cookie. Attach the red, white, and blue ribbon to back of the wrapped cookie with hot glue.

adding ribbon to foil
Finish off back by gluing a circle of the gold foil on top of the ribbon. Kids might want to embellish the front with a picture of their favorite sport.

Gold medal cookie with ribbon and foil
Then, get fired up with a DIY Olympic torch!

Olympic torch made from paper (craft)
First, draw around the end of a toilet paper tube in the center of a small paper plate.

Supplies to make paper Olympic torch craft (paper roll, paper plate)
Pierce center of plate with scissors and cut slits to the edge all the way around the circle.

Cutting hole in the middle of a paper plate
Cover toilet paper tube with gold foil and then glue plate to top of the tube by folding cuts into the center of the tube. (This takes a generous amount of glue stick)

gluing paper plate to paper roll
Stuff red and orange tissue paper into the center of the tube.

stuffing tissue paper into paper roll
Let the games begin!

Olympic torch and Gold Medal cookie crafts

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About the Author

Cindy Hopper

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has cont...

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy’s family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects.

Cindy’s personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.

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