It has been a crazy year with sports during this pandemic. Here in the US, we have hockey, basketball and baseball all being played in September. Those are winter and spring sports. Our preseason of football was cancelled. And in many stadiums sports are being played with no fans in the stands. What has happened to our sports? But it is autumn and that is football season. And I intend to enjoy every gane.
Anyone who is a fan has been counting down the days since the Superbowl game. For me it means getting out my favorite team’s glass and cup to use on game day. (I am a Green bay Packer fan. Green Bay, Wisconsin is my family’s hometown.)
I have a set of cookie cutters which included a helmet and football shape (there are other sports shape cutters and the ideas here can be used for other sports). Now I didn’t buy these cutters for cookies; I bought them for needle felting (See my blog post “Needle Felting in a CookieCutter”). But I began to wonder what other things the cutters could be used for.
So here are ten ways to use the football and helmet cookie cutters (but any shape and any occasion will work here).
1- Use the shape to needlefelt an ornament or press the cookie cutter into clay for an ornament.
2- Trace the shape onto a blank card and decorate it for an invitation to your football watching party.
3- Trace the shape onto a blank card but leave the shape plain. Tell your guests they have to bring the card colored or decorated to the party and a prize will be given to the best card.
4- String yarn or a chain through the cookie cutter and wear it as a necklace.
5- Having coloring sheets with the shapes on it for the children or adults to color if the game gets boring or your team is losing.
6- Use the cutter as a template for appliqué, embroidery or coloring on fabric. (See blog post “CookieCutters are just for Cookies” and “Colored Pencils on Fabric”).
7- Use the cutters to create different shaped deli meats or cheese for your food table
8-Tic Tac Toe game – Create a 9 patch ( a 3 x 3 square grid) with the squares big enough for the cookie cutter shape. Pick 2 shapes and make five of each. You can use paper, card stock, felt, or fabric. You can also use one shape like the helmet and make 5 from 2 different colors. Use the shapes as you would Xs and Os in a tic tac toe game but instead of marking a paper, you place the shapes on the squares.
9- Use them as napkin holders. If you have just a couple of sports related cookie cutters, add stars, circles, hearts, fall leaves, whatever might be appropriate or fun. (If the weather is still warm or even if it isn’t, try a snowman).
10- Oh, yeah, and make cookies with the cutters.
Remember what I said in an earlier blog: cookie cutters aren’t just for cookies. So go have some fun with football or any cookie cutters.
©2017, 2020 Cheryl Fillion
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