Sugar Cone Tee Pee

For Activity Days, I was trying to find a fun little craft for the girls to do.  This took on a life of its own - I had no idea the girls would like it so much. 

I bought sugar cones, then used my serrated knife to cut the tip off.    I made enough for my group of Activity days girls (I think I made a couple extra just in case).  I then covered little pieces of cardboard with foil and so the girls could put their tee pee on it as they decorated.

All I took for decorating was royal icing that I colored brown with food coloring (it HAS to be royal icing), pretzels, skittles and Hershey's chocolate bars.  That is it!  I had Ziploc bags that I cut the tip off of one side and I filled with royal icing.  They used these to put the icing in the top of the cone, and then stuck their pretzels in the top.  Then they decorated it like they would a gingerbread house.  Honestly, the three items I brought for them was enough to keep them occupied for 20 minutes.  Much longer than I had anticipated.   And, they turned out cute, in my opinion!