![It's a Sweet World After All...](https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/5978534911_8bd06aa7f6.jpg)
Baking, developing fine motor skills, learning geography, and finally eating cookies with jello (jelly) and whipped cream. What could possibly top that?!
We're going to bake a map of the world, learn the place of each continent and... eat it, of course.
Make in advance some blue jello. I couldn't find blue, so I settled for light-orange and added some blue food coloring. I call the result "ocean green" ;-) . Also add some whipped cream.
Download or print this schematic sketch of the continents, or draw your own. Note that I compromised the geographical preciseness in order to keep the cookies in a bakeable shape!... Cut out each of the paper continents.
Choose your favorite cookie recipe to prepare, flatten the dough,
![Flattening Dough](https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5978493647_9f45280e20.jpg)
put the paper continents on the flattened dough and cut the dough around each of them. You now have the world ready to be baked! It's a good idea to put each child's cookies on a baking paper with the child's name written on it (with a pencil), to easily tell which is whose.
![Cookie-Continents](https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5979007746_0e42a80f16.jpg)
Once the cookies are ready, put in front of each child a plate covered with blue jello, a small bowl of whipped cream, and, of course, the child's cookies.
Now let's see... where should each continent go? - You can print another map and leave it intact, to help with assembling the puzzle.
![Iced Cookie-Poles](https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5979008614_76b16642ff.jpg)
Now add ice to the poles, and... bon appetit!