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player ready...Thirty budding bakers gathered at Dundee Library in East Dundee to decorate holiday treats during a Foodie Kids class Wednesday but their minds were clearly focused on Christmas and Santa.
Nobody seemed too worried that Santa might get sick or gain too much weight from eating all the cookies they’d be leaving out for him on Christmas Eve.
“He has magic powers,” said Alaina Sachen, 7, of Sleepy Hollow.
And who knew that despite cutting a portly figure, Santa’s actually a fitness buff?
“Santa has a private gym, and he probably trains,” said Dana Fuqua, 8, of Sleepy Hollow.
Mia Prado, 8, of Carpentersville, agreed.
“He’ll be fine. He has a gym,” Prado said.
Added Emmett Fermanic, 7, of Sleepy Hollow: “One time we left him a gingerbread house too. He ate a third of it. We had the rest.”
Kids know that if they are naughty, Santa will leave them lumps of coal in lieu of gifts, but no one in the class seemed too worried there was any coal coming their way this year.
“I never get coal,” said Mia, brimming with confidence.
The Foodie Kids program is something the children — and their parents — look forward to, they said. Making edible ornaments from premade pancakes Wednesday, for example, was a unique way to introduce children to baking and cooking.
“They do so many amazing things in these classes,” mom Christine Fuqua said.
She frequently brings her children, which in addition to Dana also includes Delilah, 6, and Christopher, 4.
The classes are free, but registration is required. Foodie Kids is designed for children in kindergarten through third grade and held from 3:30 to 4 p.m. one Wednesday each month. The next class is Jan. 17 and will feature snowman doughnuts.
Foodie Kids Jr. is for children ages 3 to 6. Classes are from 11:30 a.m. to noon once a month on Thursdays. Little ones make treats related to books or story characters.
The next session, inspired by Jan Brett’s “The Snowy Nap,” is Dec. 28.
For more information and to learn about other children’s programs offered at Dundee Library and Randall Oaks Library in West Dundee, go to www.frvpld.info.
Mike Danahey is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.