Bryce Dallas Howard Details Family’s Annual Holiday Cookie Decorating Contest — And How Dad Ron Howard Fares

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Cookie champs! Bryce Dallas Howard and her family — including father Ron Howard — take their holiday traditions very seriously.“We decorate cookies.

That’s like a thing that we do. We’re really into it,” the Jurassic World actress, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, December 9, while promoting her partnership with Oral-B. “We have a whole day that we dedicate to it and it’s largely driven by my mom [Cheryl Howard] and we make all the cookies in advanced and then it’s like a decorating party and we all get together and it’s really fun and it gets a little competitive.”After the Howard brood whips up the tasty treats, they get into the zone when it comes to decorating.“I mean, admittedly, there are children involved and so the stakes get super high where they’re just like, ‘OK, I’m gonna sit here for two hours making this cookie’ and it’s hard as an adult to compete with that level of focus and determination,” Bryce jokingly told Us. “But my dad’s cookies are strong.

He’s got good cookie-decorating game. He’s creative and he has good small motor skills. You could say that Ron Howard is a visual artist and [he brings] that to his cookie decorating.”The accomplished director and Cheryl, both 68, tied the knot in 1975 before welcoming their four children: Bryce, Reed and twins Jocelyn and Paige.

The former high school sweethearts are also proud grandparents of five, including the actress’ two little ones. The Help star and husband Seth Gabel share daughter Beatrice, 10, and son Theodore, 15 — who are already interested in following in their mom and grandpa’s footsteps.“My kids, like so many kids in this generation, are definitely drawn to the arts, to self-expression [and] to storytelling,” Bryce gushed on Friday. “My