Fruit Moos
| Yield: 10 Servings |
Serving Size: 1/2 cup or
4 oz.
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You will need:
1 tray of ice cubes, crushed
3 cups vanilla ice cream
2-16 oz. Cans of fruit cocktail, drained
2 cups of orange juice
What you will do:
- Place all ingredients in a blender
and whirl.
- Place blender in freezer, but
only for one hour so that it does not become hard.
- Serve.
*NOTE: Make sure child is
not allergic to milk products before serving.
Painted Toast
| Yields: 12 servings |
Serving size: ½ slice of bread |
You will need:
1/4 cup of milk
6 slices of enriched white or wheat bread
2 to 3 drops of food coloring
What you will do:
- Mix your choice of food coloring
into the milk.
- By using a clean paintbrush,
allow the children to paint their bread different colors.
- Toast the bread and see the results.
*NOTE: Buy a set of small paintbrushes
for the children to use only for cooking projects.
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Peach Delight
| Yields:
1 delight |
Serving Size: 1
delight |
You will need:
2 graham crackers
1 tsp. margarine or butter
1/2 cup of peach slices
9x9 Aluminum foil square
What you will do:
- Allow children to crumble the
graham crackers onto the piece of foil. (This will help strengthen their fine
motor skills).
- Allow child to add peaches.
- The adult can top the peaches
with the margarine or butter.
- The adult will fold the edges
of the foil and seal tightly.
- Bake at 350ºF for about 10 minutes.
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Pigs in a Blanket
| Yield: 8 |
Serving Size: 1 pig in a blanket |
You will need:
1 container of crescent roll dough
1 package of hot dogs or miniature
sausage
What you will do:
- The child can roll the hot dog
or sausage inside the uncooked rolls.
- The adult can place on a cookie
sheet and bake as directed.
*To "feed" the pigs, put
some ketchup, mustard, or barbecue sauce on the plate for dipping.
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Pizza Faces
| Yield: 1/2 |
Serving Size: 1/2 bagel |
You Will Need:
1/2 English muffins or bagels
Tomato sauce
Shredded cheese
Toppings (olives, pepperoni, shredded carrot, or peppers)
What you will do:
- Toast the English muffin or bagel.
- Allow the children to spread
tomato sauce on the bread, add the cheese, and use the toppings to create
faces.
- Melt in the oven for a few minutes
at 250° F. Enjoy!
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Reindeer Snack
| Yields: 18 servings |
Serving size: 1/2 cup |
You will need:
3 cups popped popcorn
3 cups cone shaped nacho cheese flavored corn snacks
2 cups pretzel sticks
1 cup round oat cereal
1/3-cup margarine or butter melted
1/2 tsp. chili powder
1 clove garlic, minced or ¼ tsp. of garlic powder
What you will do:
- Preheat oven to 300ºF.
- The children can help measure
and mix popcorn, cornsnacks, pretzels, and cereal into large bowl.
- Mix remaining ingredients separately.
- Spread onto baking sheet and
bake for 15 minutes, stirring twice.
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Rocket Salad
| Yield: 1 rocket |
Serving Size: 1 rocket |
You will need:
1 pineapple ring slice
1/2 peeled medium banana
1/2 maraschino cherry
1 lettuce leaf
What the children can do (This
is a great recipe that a child can "cook" all by theirself.):
- Place lettuce leaf on a small
plate.
- The "launching pad"
is the pineapple ring.
- The "rocket" is the
banana set upright in the center of the pineapple ring slice.
- The "nose cone" is
the cherry on top of the banana. Eat and enjoy!!
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Sink or
Float Salad
| Yield:
4 servings |
Serving size: 1
plastic cup  |
You will need:
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup apple juice, boiling
1 Tbsp. grape juice
1 1/4 cups cold apple juice
3 ice cubes
Mixture of fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, oranges,
bananas, strawberries, grapes, pineapple, apricots, or miniature marshmallows.
What you will do:
- Mix the gelatin with the boiling
apple juice.
- Stir in the remaining ingredients
except the mixture of fruits.
- Pour 1/2 cup servings into a
clear plastic cup.
- Have the children place fruit
into the juice and watch them either sink or float.
- Be sure that there is 1/2 cup
of fruit in each serving.
- Chill until firm.
*This is a great science and
math activity. Talk with children about each item they put in. Does it sink or
float? Below is an example graph that you can use with your children to show which
fruits sink and which fruits float.
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Sinks
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Floats
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Grapes
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X
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Marshmallows
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X
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Strawberries
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X
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Ships Ahoy!
| Yield: 14 ships |
Serving size: 1
"ship" (egg) for 1-5 year olds |
You will need:
7 hard-cooked eggs
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup cream style cottage cheese
1/4 tsp. dry mustard
Cheese slices
Thin licorice sticks
What you will do:
- After preparing the eggs, cut
eggs in half lengthwise.
- Place the yolks in a dish and
mash with a fork.
- Add remaining ingredients except
the cheese slices and mix lightly with a fork.
- Place the yolk mixture into white
halves.
- For the sail, attach a licorice
stick to a triangular slice of cheese. Insert the "stick" into each
egg white.
*NOTE: Make sure that children are
not allergic to eggs or dairy products. Also make sure that eggs are fully cooked.
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Snow Cones
| Yield: 8 |
Serving Size:
1 snow cone |
You will need:
Crushed ice
1 package of flavored drink mix
What you will do:
- Mix drink mix by following directions.
- Pour over crushed ice and scoop
into a plastic cup.
- Enjoy!!
Special Spiders
| Yield: 1 |
Serving Size:
3 spiders  |
You will need:
Round crackers
Creamy peanut butter
Raisins
Thin pretzel sticks
What you will do:
- Allow the children to spread
peanut butter on one side of the cracker.
- Add two raisins (eyes) side by
side near the edge of the cracker.
- Break four pretzel sticks in
half.
- Place four pretzel sticks on
each side of the cracker for the spider legs.
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