Fish Snack
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1 box of rectangular crackers (like Waverly or Captain's Wafers)
1 package of soft cream cheese
Blue food coloring
1 package of Goldfish crackers
Mix the blue food coloring with the soft cream cheese until the cream
cheese is the desired color.(resembling water)
Spread cream cheese on crackers, top with goldfish, and let the children eat the "aquarium"!
Summer Coolers
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FOR EACH 2 CHILDREN YOU WILL NEED:
1/2 cup cantaloupe chuncks
1/8 cup apple juice concentrated
1/2 cup of milk
Ice or small plastic cups and popsicle sticks
Measure and pour the liquids into a blender.
Add the cantaloupe chuncks. Blend well.
Serve over ice or pour into plastic cups, insert popsicle sticks and freeze.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Apples
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Supplies:
Apple, Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chips, Rice Krispies, Raisins
Cut apple in half.
Have kids spread peanut butter on apple half.
On foil or wax paper have different piles for dipping apples in.(chocolate chips, rice crispies, and raisins.)
Let the kids smash the peanut butter side of apple in each pile!
Tunasaurus
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Supplies: 1 slice of bread, tuna salad, 1 Raisin
Spread one slice of bread with tuna salad.
Use dinosaur cookie cutter to cut a dinosaur from the center of the bread.
Press on a raisin to make the eye.
Happy Face Sandwiches
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Supplies:
Bread, Peanut butter, Raisins, Chocolate chips, Alfalfa or bean sprouts, Squeezable cheese, Other small food items
Spread peanut butter on one side of bread - openfaced.
Have child make eyes, nose, mouth and hair from other items provided.
Encourage kids to be creative and eat what they create.
Banana Wrap
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1 8inch flour tortilla
2-3 tbsp peanut butter
2-3 tbsp grape jelly
1 small banana, peeled
Place tortilla on a paper towel. Microwave 10 to 20 seconds on high until
the tortilla is soft and warm.
Spread with peanut butter. Top with grape jelly.
Place the banana near the right edge of the tortilla.
Fold up the bottom fourth of the tortilla. Bring right edge over the banana and
roll-up.
Peanut Butter Caterpillars
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Banana,
2 tbsp peanut butter,
grape
Peel and slice a banana.
Spread slices with peanut butter and connect the slices. Add a grape up front for the head ("gluing" with more peanut butter).
If desired, make this a game with the child - what veggie can we add to make antenas? etc. (maybe a strip of celery).
Frozen Fruit Treat
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1 3/4 cups strawberries
1 large can crushed pineapple
5 bananas (cut in cubes)
12 oz frozen orange juice - concentrate
1 1/2 cups water
Mix ingredients together. Freeze in small paper cups.
Serve partially defrosted. Children love this nutritous treat!
Breakfast banana splits
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Use oatmeal (or any hot cereal) instead of ice cream Still use toppings. I use crushed pineapple, strawberry preserves (or (thawed)frozen strawberries) and of course, chocolate syrup and a little whip cream.
Of course you make these a size to fit the kids, so they can finish them all, but my kids love it! At least for a change of pace.
Soft Pretzels
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2 - 16 oz. loaves frozen bread dough
1 egg white, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon water
Coarse salt
Separate thawed bread into 24 - 1 1/2" balls.
Roll each ball into a rope 14 1/2" long.
Have children plan and design pretzel shapes (letters or numerals). Put pretzels one inch apart on greased cookie sheet.
Let stand for 20 minutes and brush with combined egg white and water.
Sprinkle with coarse salt.
Place a shallow pan containing 1" of boiling water on bottom rack of oven; bake pretzels at 350 degrees on rack above water for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
CREEPY CRAWLERS
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12 oz. chocolate chips
12 oz. butterscotch chips
1 cup peanuts
2 cups of raisins
1 pkg crispy chow mein noodles
Melt all the chips in a double boiler.
Put the noodles and nuts in a big mixing bowl.. Pour the melted goo over the noodles and nuts. Mix everything together well, but be careful not to break too many of the "legs".
Place spoonfuls of the mix onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Chill the Creepy Crawlers until they are hard.
Bird's Nest Snack
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1/4 cup Butter
1 cup Brown Sugar
3 oz. can of Chow mein Noodles
Jelly Beans
Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a saucepan.
Add 1 cup of brown sugar. Boil and stir for one minute. Add a 3 oz. can of chow mein noodles.
Put the mixture in 12 paper baking cups in a muffin tin. Use your thumb to press noodles into the nest while still warm. DO NOT BAKE. Give children jelly bean eggs to put in their nests.
Aquarium Snack
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Clear Plastic Cups
Cookies
Blue Jello
Gummy Fish
Get some clear plastic cups, put some oreo crumbs or "sandy" colored cookie
crumbs on the bottom. Get some blue jello and pour over the crumbs, add
some gummy fish and when set this makes a great snack!
TUNA ISLANDS
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
1 can (6.5 oz) water packed tuna
2 T celery finely chopped
2 T mayonnaise
2 tsp. onion finely chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
4 small unsliced hamburger buns
4 small stalks of celery with leaves
Drain tuna, flake into medium bowl.
Stir in remaining ingrediants except hamburger buns and celery stalks.
Scoop out center of each bun and stuff with 1 1/2 oz or about 1/4 cup tuna mixture. Stand a stalk of celery with leaves in the tuna mixture to make the bun look like an island with a palm tree growing out of the center.
Go Fishing
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
Needed for each child:
1/3 cup Goldfish crackers,
10-12 pretzel sticks (fishing poles)
1-2 Tbs. peanut butter
Put the peanut butter and pretzels on a plate, goldfish in a bowl or glass (paper is
OK). The kids dip a fishing pole in the peanut butter and "catch" a fish
with it.
Surprise Biscuits
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Get a tube of biscuits, slightly flatten, then roll up around an apple slice sprinkled with cinnamon, bake.
Monster Pizza
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Toast an English muffin.
Spread on pizza or spaghetti sauce. Add cheese. Cut several pieces of pepperoni into triangles.
Place1/2 slice for eyes and nose. Place them overlapping for smile. Cut thin slices of black olives for the eyeball and thin slices of mushrooms for the ears.
Place long thin strips of green peppers around the top to resemble hair.
Apple Sailboat Snack
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
The children make apple sailboats from an apple slice, a triangular piece
of cheese, and a toothpick. Eat for snack.
Moon Bread
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
1 10-count can refrigerator biscuits
1/4 C honey
1/8 C nuts, finely chopped
Separate biscuits and cut each into 3 pieces.
Roll each piece in a ball. Dip each ball in honey and roll in nuts. Put 3 balls in each muffin cup in muffin tin.
Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Makes 10 servings
Peaches with Crispy Topping
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
1/2 C plain nonfat yogurt
1 t. apple spices (cinnamon, nutmeg)
4 C fresh, sliced peaches
1/2 C Grapenuts cereal
Mix yogurt and spices. Spoon peaches into 6 individual bowls. Drizzle
each serving with yogurt mixture and sprinkle cereal over each.
Breakfast Waffle Sandwich
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
2 frozen waffles (enriched flour as 1st ingredient)
2 T cream cheese
1/2 C fruit slices
Toast waffles. Spread one waffle with cream cheese and place slices of
fruit on top. Place second waffle on top. Cut in half. Serves 2.
Apple Volcanoes
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Apple
peanut butter
raisins
knife
teaspoon.
Cut off top of apple. Using spoon, scoop out core of apple. Fill apple with
peanut butter and top with raisins.
Edible Necklace
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Shoestring licorice
Cereal with holes
Have kids thread cereal on licorice. When complete tie ends together.
Trees in Snow
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1/2 cup cottage cheese
broccoli florets, precooked,
steamed lightly or raw
uncooked
1 tablespoon Italian dressing
Utensils:
measuring cup and spoon
small dish
Spread the cottage cheese in a thick layer in the small dish.
Arrange the broccoli florets so they stand in the cottage
cheese,resembling trees in the snow.
Drizzle a little Italian dressing over the broccoli florets to flavor
the salad.
Serve the Trees in Snow with a fork as a healthy, tasty salad.
Merry-Go-Rounds
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1 Apple
Peanut Butter
Animal crackers
Pretzel sticks
Cut the apple in half (1/2 Apple/child)
Spread peanut butter over the apple top (skin is on bottom)
Add animal crackers and pretzel sticks to represent the merry go round
animals and poles.
Robots / People
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Meats cubed
Cheeses cubed
Vegetable slices
You'll need toothpicks
Cut meats, and cheeses into cube pieces
Slice various vegetables into thin slices
Place all of the above into separate bowls
Children create people or robots by placing ingredients onto toothpicks
Serves many.
Chocolate Snake
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1/2 C. Peanut butter
1/2 C. Dry milk
1/2 C. Honey
1 T. cocoa
1/2 t. vanilla
1/2 C. Chopped nuts
1/2 C. Raisins
2 T. coconut
Combine peanut butter and dry milk until blended
Stir in , one at a time, honey, cocoa, vanilla, nuts, raisins, and coconut
Place mixture on wax paper and roll into a thick snake shape
Wrap in wax paper and chill
To serve, either have children pull off pieces, or cut into slices
Serves many.
Filled Thumbprint Cookies
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
1 pkg. Vanilla wafer cookies
2 T. Vanilla
2/3 C. Clear Karo syrup
1/2 C. Jelly or preserves
Place vanilla wafer cookies into gallon size baggies and zip. Let children crush cookies until tiny crumbs are left. Place in a mixing bowl
Combine karo syrup and flavoring
Drizzle syrup over wafer crumbs, mix well (hands work best)
Shape into 1 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet
Press thumb indentation into center of balls
Spoon jelly into indentation
Cover and chill for 1 hour before serving
Makes about 10 cookies, depending on the size
Orange Julius
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
In a blender add:
1 cup water
1 cup milk
6oz frozen orange juice (sm can)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
(ice cubes)
This is a BIG treat for them! Place all ingredients into a blender then fill to top with the ice cubes. I think the recipes says something like 24 ice cubes but my ice cubes are bigger so I don't use that many.
Blend until the consistency of a Slushy and serve with a spoon and straw.
Yummy Trail Mix
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1 cup cheerios
1 cup crispix
1 cup corn chex (or use 1 cup of any 3 different types of cereal)
1 cup goldfish
1 cup oyster crackers
1 cup raisins
1 cup pretzel sticks or tiny pretzels
Simply mix together and let the children serve themselves- They love it!!!
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