Bug Cookies

One 16-ounce can vanilla frosting
Orange, yellow, and green paste food coloring
Colored vanilla wafers
Large and small gumdrops, candied red cherries, red and black string licorice, small multicolored decorative candies, and red cinnamon candies
Purchased mini muffins

Divide frosting into four bowls. Add desired amount of food coloring paste to three bowls of frosting, leaving white frosting in the other bowl.
Caterpillar: Select 12 cookies. Make 6 sandwich cookies using desired color of frosting to hold together. Connect sandwich cookies with additional frosting, forming caterpillar body. Add a large gumdrop with frosting as a head. Add 2 small candies with frosting for eyes and 2 small pieces of licorice for antennae. Add a small gumdrop for a tail.
Spider: Sandwich 2 cookies with frosting, inserting small pieces of licorice for legs. Add 2 small candies with frosting for eyes.
Flying Beetle. Frost a mini muffin. Add a dab of frosting for beetle body. Cut a cookie in half with serrated knife, and push cookie into the frosting for wings. Add a gumdrop or candied cherry for a head. Decorate with small candies.

Print as 3x5 or 4x6