20+ Fun & Quirky Cookies to Make With Your Grandkids

Some of my best memories as a child are baking with my grandma. She was the most creative person I had ever met, and there were no standard chocolate chip cookies at her house – she always had such fun cookie recipes. Even if you’re not the most creative grandma yourself, you can be the most fun grandma with these easy, cute, and quirky cookies to bake with your grandkids.

These 20+ Fun & Quirky Cookies to make with your kids include many cookie recipes that are best for kids (even for teenagers and adults). Have one of these platters on hand for serving so the kids feel extra special and fancy!

If you’re a grandma who loves cooking for your grandkids, you may also want to check my list of 20 Hearty Dinner Recipes for Kids, or prepare them some snacks for school with these 15+ Kids’ Snacks for School That Aren’t Sweets.

Cookie Monster Cake Mix Cookies

These Cookie Monster Cake Mix Cookies are soft, chewy, and studded with fun cookie pieces to resemble the beloved blue monster. Made with a vanilla cake mix, blue food coloring, and topped with Oreos, Chips Ahoy, and white chocolate chips.

Chocolate Cake Mix Hedgehog Cookies

These Hedgehog Cookies are easy, bite-sized treats made with cake mix and a few simple ingredients you probably have on hand. They’re perfect for kids, parties, and fun spring baking days.

Nutter Butter Owl Cookies

These Nutter Butter Owl Cookies are an easy no-bake treat made with chocolate, cookies, and almonds. They’re fun to make with kids and great for fall parties or Thanksgiving!

Lucky Charms Cookies

These Lucky Charm Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with colorful marshmallows! With just 10 minutes of prep, they’re a fun and easy treat perfect for kids, parties, or a magical St. Patrick’s Day dessert.

Cute Oreo Crab Cookies

These Oreo Crabs are a fun, no-bake summer treat made with Golden Oreos, red candy melts, and candy eyes. Perfect for summer parties, playdates, or beach-themed parties.

Ladybug Chocolate Covered Oreos

These Ladybug Chocolate Covered Oreos are an adorable no-bake treat that’s great for kids’ parties, tea parties, or springtime fun. Made with Oreos, chocolate, and edible eyes, they’re easy to make and even more fun to eat!

Crunchy Nutter Butter Chicks

Nutter Butter Chicks are no bake Easter cookies made by dipping peanut butter sandwich cookies in yellow melted candy and decorating them with candy eyes and M&M’s. They are simple to prepare, kid-friendly, and perfect for Easter baskets or spring parties.

Easter Bunny M&M Cookies

These Easter Bunny M&M Cookies are soft, chewy, and full of chocolatey goodness. Decorated with pastel M&Ms, they’re a fun and easy treat for Easter parties, baskets, or a sweet snack at home.

Back-to-School Vanilla Wafer Pencils

No-bake Vanilla Wafer Pencils made with crispy vanilla wafers dipped in pink candy melts and finished with a mini chocolate chip “lead.” A quick and adorable back-to-school snack kids will love!

Heart Print Cookies

These Heart Print Cookies are soft, buttery, and filled with sweet jam, perfect for Valentine’s Day treats for a party or give as a sweet treat, a homemade gift for your loved ones.

Soft Strawberry Crunch Cake Cookies

These Strawberry Crunch Cookies are soft, sweet, and topped with crunchy Oreo and strawberry Jell-O mix. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, kids’ parties, or pink treats!

Mardi Gras Alligators

These Mardi Gras Alligators are an easy and festive sweet treat made with Nutter Butter cookies, green candy melts, and colorful sprinkles—perfect for mardi gras celebration and St. Patrick’s Day.

Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies

Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies are a cute and festive holiday treat made with sugar cookies, simple icing, and fun candy decorations. Ideal for Christmas parties, school events, or cookie exchanges.

Oreo S’mores Cookies

These Oreo S’mores Cookies are the ultimate dessert mashup! Perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth or impressing at your next gathering!

Fresh Berry Pink Sugar Cookies

Soft pink sugar cookies filled with creamy white chocolate ganache and topped with fresh berries. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, baby showers, or spring parties.

Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies

These Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies feature a classic, melt-in-your-mouth peanut butter cookie base. Perfect for whipping up with the kids on a cozy afternoon or as a quick holiday treat!

Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies

These Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies are easy, no-bake treats made with peanut butter, white chocolate, fudge-striped cookies, and mini Reese’s cups—great for a Thanksgiving party snack or classroom parties.

Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies

These no-bake Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies are a fun and festive Thanksgiving treat made with candy corn, candy eyes, and peanut butter cookies—great for kids, parties, fall bake sale and edible gifts.

Vanilla Cake Mix Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

These Copycat Subway Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies are made with vanilla cake mix, cream cheese, white chocolate, and tangy freeze-dried raspberries, creating soft, pillowy cookies that taste just like your favorite café treat.

Lucky Charm St. Patrick’s Day Cookies

These Lucky Charm St. Patrick’s Day Cookies are soft, sweet, and fun to make with the kids. With a gooey marshmallow center and colorful cereal topping.

Valentine’s Day Heart-Shaped Sugar Cookies

These Valentine’s Day heart-shaped sugar cookies are soft, simple, and sweet treats to add to your Valentine’s Day sweet boxes, and they make a fun baking activity for kids.

Chalkboard Cookies

These Chalkboard Cookies are a creative back-to-school treat made with soft sugar cookies, smooth green vanilla icing, and edible white chocolate “chalk” for writing. Ideal for lunchboxes, classroom parties, or baking with the kids!

Watermelon Slice Cookies

These Watermelon Slice Cookies are made with soft, buttery sugar cookie dough and decorated with bright, colorful royal icing, they look just like mini watermelon slices—and taste just as sweet. They’re a fun baking activity to do with the kids and perfect for parties, picnics, or poolside snacks.

Copycat Valentine’s Lofthouse Sugar Cookies

These Copycat Valentine’s Lofthouse Sugar Cookies are soft, fluffy, and melt in your mouth—just like the ones from the store! Making them perfect for Valentine’s Day baking with kids or gifting to loved ones.