🧹 Witch's Broomsticks

Witch's Broomsticks for kids: the whole recipe

Let's make witch's broomsticks you can eat, bristles and all! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 10 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of string cheese
• 6 pretzel sticks (or gluten-free pretzel sticks)
• 6 chives (optional)

Tools

A cutting board, A butter knife, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Cut 2 sticks of string cheese into three short pieces each, with a butter knife.
3. Pull the bottom of each piece apart into thin strings: the broom's bristles!
4. Push 6 pretzel sticks into the tops, one in each: the handles.
5. Tie 6 chives round the tops, one on each broom, like string.
6. Lay your brooms on a plate and fly them to your mouth. Whoosh!

Safety notes

• Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Pull cheese into thin strips, not chunks, for little ones under 4.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

String cheese peels into strings because, as it's made, the cheese is stretched until its milk proteins line up in long strands.

Make it your own

• Use a carrot stick or a celery stick for the handle.
• Make a broom closet: a whole row of brooms.
• Try a cheddar stick for orange bristles.

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