Milk & Cookies for Santa – DIY Scrabble Coasters
Post by Kelsey Nixon of Kelsey’s Essentials 
One of the simple yet classic Christmas traditions that our family always looks forward to is leaving out milk and cookies for Santa (don’t forget the carrots for Rudoph!). If you’ve got one more Christmas craft left in you before the big event, these simple DIY scrabble coasters could be a blast to make with letter loving kids on Christmas Eve. It’s a fun exercise to come up with 4-5 letter words that make up holiday sayings – and a particularly fun challenge when you only have a certain number of individual letters. Even if the kids in your house are a little to you to put together words, this can still be a fun way to work with letters. My two and a half year old Ollie loved fishing out certain letters for me. This craft is inexpensive, quick, and most importantly these can be a memento that your family pulls out year after year to perfectly prop up Santa’s milk alongside his cookies. (This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe) See the simple directions for the coasters below.
Materials for DIY Scrabble Coasters:
- Scrabble Tiles (found here)*
- Craft glue
- Cork coasters or cork board (found at a local craft store)
- Scissors
DIY Scrabble Coasters Instructions
- Choose holiday phrases or words that can easily be made up with the Scrabble letters. We found that there were a lot more 5 letter holiday words than 4 letter words, so our coasters aren’t a perfect square, but the shape didn’t bother us and I’m sure Santa won’t mind.
- Organize your letters before using the craft glue to glue each letter onto the cork board or coaster aligning the first letter to the upper corner.
- Allow each coaster to dry completely before using sharp scissors or an x-acto knife to carefully trim the edges.
- Hint Hint: I found that one set of 100 scrabble letters made about 4 coasters.
Hopefully these cheery coasters will get your kids even more excited for Santa’s big arrival and make sure that Jolly Old St. Nick is well taken care of when he stops at your house.
Happy Holidays!
Kelsey Nixon is the host of Kelsey’s Essentials on Cooking Channel and author of Kitchen Confidence. Kelsey’s Essentials is also currently airing Mon-Thurs at 3pm on Food Network. Kelsey, her husband Robby, and son Oliver (“Ollie”) live in New York City. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.