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Fun Kids Recipes
All-Star Fudgy Baseballs and Bats
1 c Carob powder
1 c Water
1/4 c Honey
1/4 c Peanut butter (smooth or cru
3/4 c Wheat germ
3/4 c Rolled oats
2 tb Dry milk powder
1/2 c Unsweetened shredded coconut
1 ts Cinnamon (optional)
1/2 ts Grated orange rind (optional
In a small saucepan, combine the carob and water. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly
to prevent scorching. Add the honey and peanut butter and continue cooking for about 5 minutes,
or until syrup is smooth and slightly thickened.
In a large bowl, mix together the wheat germ, oats, milk powder, coconut, cinnamon, and orange
rind (if desired).
Pour about one cup of the carob syrup over the dry mixture, or as much as is needed to make a
pliable, dough-like consistency. Store the remainder in the refrigerator and use as an icing or to
make great milk shakes.
Pinch off pieces of the dough and roll each piece between your palms into 2-inch-long tubes about
the circumference of a fountain pen, tapered at one end in the shape of a baseball bat. Roll the rest
into marble-sized balls.
Apple Smiles
1 Red medium apple; cored & sliced about 1/3" wide, not skinned!
Peanut butter (creamy works best)
Tiny marshmallows.
Spread one side of each apple slice with peanut butter. Place three or four tiny marshmallows on
top of the peanut butter on one apple slice. Top with another apple slice, peanut butter side down.
Squeeze gently. Eat right away..makes 8-10
Bunny Salad
1 Chilled pear half
2 Raisins
1 Red cinnamon candy
2 Blanched almonds
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-cottage cheese ball
Place crisp lettuce leaf on plate. On top of it, place pear upside down. Make bunny, using narrow
end for face. Two raisins for the eyes, 1 red cinnamon candy for the nose and 2 blanched almonds
for the ears. The cottage cheese ball makes the tail.
Butterfly Bites
2 Stalks of celery
12 lg Three-ring pretzels
6 tb Peanut butter or cream cheese
About 18 raisins or currents
12 Slivered almonds or enoki mushrooms
Wash the celery. Using plastic knives, cut the celery into thirds. Fill each celery stalk with one
tablespoon of either peanut butter or cream cheese. For the wings, gently push 1 pretzel into the
filling, running parallel to the length of the celery stick. Do the same on the clery's other lengthwise
side. Arrange the raisins or currents as the eyes, nose and mouth. For antennae, push the slivered
almonds or mushroom cap into filling. If using mushrooms, arrange the spaghetti-like mushroom
tips upward, like an antenna.
Cat's Eyes
1/2 c Peanut butter
8 Ritz crackers
1 Banana; cut into 8 slices
8 Raisins
Spread peanut butter on crackers and top each with a slice of banana. Place a raisin in center of
each banana to form a cat's eye and repeat for all banana topped crackers. Source: Healthy Treats
and Super Snacks for Kids
Chocolate Spiders version #1
4 cups semisweet chocolate baking chips
Melt chocolate chips in top of double boiler. Let stand over the water until water is cool, about 10
minutes. Place wax paper on cookie sheet. Pour chocolate into a pastry bag that is fitted with a
1/8-inch or 1/4-inch tip. Squeeze chocolate onto wax paper in the shape of spiders. If chocolate is
runny it needs to be cooled longer. Chill the spiders for about 10 minutes. When hard peel off wax
paper. Store in refrigerator laid flat.
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Chocolate Spiders version #2
12 oz Twizzlers; chocolate flavor
4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts
Cut twizzlers into 1 1/2" pieces. Slice each piece in half lengthwise. On waxed paper place 4 legs
(pieces) on each side and then drop 1 tsp melted candy in middle for body. Use a toothpick to
smooth to uniform circle and connect all candy pieces. Cool completely before removing from
waxed paper.
Clown Faces
Large Pancake
3 x Orange Slices
2 x Poached or fried Eggs
1/2 Cherry Tomato
Make the pancakes in advance and set them in oven to keep them warm. Poach or fry the eggs. To
assemble the faces, place the pancakes on a plate, with eggs for eyes, orange slices for ears and
mouth, and a tomato half for the nose.
NOTE: For a lighter meal, omit the eggs and use apricot or peach halves for eyes and half a fresh
cherry for a nose. Or, omit pancakes, assemble eggs directly on plate, and add a smile made from
chopped, sauted potatoes.
Daisy Apple
2 Tbs. raisins
2 Tbs. crunchy or creamy peanut butter
1 Mcintosh apple
Peanuts, for garnish (omit if making for small child)
Set aside a few raisins for face. Stir remaining raisins into peanut butter. With apple corer or paring
knife, remove core and seeds from apple. Using a small knife, push peanut butter mixture into
center of apple. Make a happy face on top of peanut butter using reserved raisins. Arrange peanut
halves around edge of peanut butter forming a circle. Chill before serving.
Dirt Cups
2 c Milk
1 pk Chocolate Pudding, instant
3 1/2 c Cool Whip
16 oz Oreos
8 Gummy Worms (opt)
8 Plastic flowers (opt)
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Pour milk into medium bowl, add pudding mix. Beat until well blended, 1 -2 minutes. Crush Oreos
and set aside. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in cool whip and half of cookies. To assemble: place 1 Tb
crushed cookies in bottom of 8 oz cup. Fill cups about 3/4 full with pudding mixture. Top with
remaining crumbs. Optional garnish: place flower in middle and put gummy worm halfway out of
"dirt".
Easter Mints Kids Can Make
1/3 c Soft butter
1/3 c Light corn syrup
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Flavoring
3 1/2 c ( 1 lb ) sifted confectioner's sugar
Large bowl
Wooden spoon
Paper plates
Pencils
This is a no-cook recipe the children can mix with their hands. Flavor it with any of the liquid
flavorings in the supermarket, such as strawberry and lemon. If you want, you can instead divide it
into three portions and add a few drops of food coloring to tint it yellow, red, and green. The knead
a small amount of flavoring into each one. This recipe makes about 1 1/2 lbs of candy.
Help the children measure all the ingredients into the large bowl. They can take turns stirring it
with the wooden spoon until it becomes too stiff. Then they can knead it with their hands. They
should continue kneading until the dough is smooth.
Give each child a paper plate and a pencil. Tell them to turn their plates OVER and write their
names on the Bottom to prevent pencil lead from getting on their mints. Help them hold their
pencils correctly. Make sure they use upper and lower case letters.
Give each child a portion of dough on his or her plate. The children can pinch off pieces, roll them
into balls, and press them lightly with a fork to make a fancy butter mint. Children who cannot roll
the candy into balls can make snakes, cut the snakes into pieces, and press the pieces with a fork.
They might eat the pieces with the fork, but that's ok too.
Leave the mints on the plates and refrigerate them for 30 minutes, until they become firm. Easter
Mints taste even better the second day, if you can keep everyone from eating them all on the first
day. Cover with plastic wrap and keep them in the refrigerator.
Eyeballs on Ritz
Eggs; hard boiled
Black olives
Ritz crackers
Red food coloring
Cut hard boiled eggs in half lengthwise. Remove yolks and make filling for deviled eggs. Cut out
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small hole from bottom center of each egg (about 5/8" diameter.) Poke a black olive partway
through each hole and hold in place by filling eggs with yolk filling. Place each egg, olive side up,
on a ritz cracker. Paint red lines, resembling blood veins, with a toothpick on the eye.
Fish in the River
2 Celery stalks
1/4 c Cream cheese; or other cheese spread (tinted green if desired)
8 Goldfish crackers
Trim and wash celery and fill with cheese. Top with crackers and serve.
Food for a Hobo Hike
4 cn Tuna (3 oz each)
4 cn Baked beans (6 oz each)
4 Oranges
4 Plastic
4 Bandana clots
4 Children
Place 1 can tuna, 1 can beans, 1 orange, and 1 fork on each banadana. Bring up corners and tie
securely. Tie end to children's belt loop or attach to a stick and send them off on their hobo hike.
Pack another hobo pouch for yourself and go along. Make sure someone has a Scout knife with a
can opener attachment to open cans (much more fun struggling with one of these things than to
take a conventional can opener). The oranges serve as both a drink and a dessert. Poke a hole in
one end and after all the juice has been sucked out, open it and eat the flesh. The tuna and beans,
of course, are eaten just as they come from the can. The bandanas serve as little tablecloths,
napkins, and kerchiefs to be worn back home. Children love this hobo picnic--it's easy for you,
nutritious, filling, and fun from them.
Funny Face Carrot Salad
2 carrots
1 small can crushed pineapple
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
Raisins
Peel carrots. Roll up a few long shavings and save them for "hair" on a final salad. Grate carrots
with a grater. Be careful of your fingers. Drain can of crushed pineapples in a strainer, using a
spoon to push out the juice. Toss pineapple with carrots, then add vanilla yogurt. Spoon some
salad onto a plate. Make a smiling face with raisins. Style carrot "hair", and serve with a smile.
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Jello Aquarium Recipe
1 pk Jello Berry BLUE jelly powder
1 c Boiling water
2 c Ice cubes
Gummy fish
Dissolve jelly powder in boiling water. Add ice cubes, stirring until jelly thickens, about 3-5
minutes. Remove any unmelted ice. Spoon jelly into to clear sided bowls. Poke 3 or 4 gummy fish
into each dish of slightly thickened jelly. Refrigerate 30 minute to set. Serve with 1-1/2 hours.
Octopus Dogs
6 Hot dogs
6 Hot dog buns
1 cn Chili
About 1" from one end of a hot dog, start a slit in the hot dog that goes vertically to the other end.
Turn a quarter turn and make another slit. Keep making slits until you have eight "legs" for the hot
dog. Boil and the hot dog will look like an octopus. Serve with head up and legs spread out over an
opened hot dog bun that has chili on it.
Peaches with a Sunshine Smile
1 cn Of peach halves
2 To 3 cups cottage cheese (low-fat)
Lettuce leaves
Arrange lettuce in a bowl or plate. Spoon a layer of cottage cheese "sun rays" on lettuce. The
peach half is placed round end up. Press raisins gently into peach to form a sunshine face. Sprinkle
extra raisins on cottage cheese.
Peanut Butter Caterpillars
Banana
Grape
2 tb Peanut Butter
Peel and slice a banana. Spread slices with peanut or sesame butter and connect the slices. Add a
grape up front for the head ("gluing" with more peanut butter.)
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Peanut Butter Turtles
Apple
2 tb Peanut Butter
5 x Grapes
Slice an apple in half. Make several slits in each half. Fill with peanut butter or sesame butter
(available in health stores.) Attach seedless grapes with toothpicks (remove before giving to very
young children) for the head and legs and stick a carrot shaving on for a tail (tuck it in 1 of the
slits) Nice to serve as a lunch treat.
Potato Pups
8 Hot dogs
2 c Mashed potatoes
1/2 ts Dry mustard
Split
hot dogs the long way not quite all the way through. Fill split opening with mashed potatoes
mixed with dry mustard. Sprinkle the top with paprika. Bake in 375 degree oven for about 15
minutes or until heated through and slightly browned on top. Can also be topped with some grated
cheese (cheddar or parmesan).
Rock Candy
2 c granulated sugar
Heavy cord
1 c water
The book says to put one cup of water into a small saucepan, pour 2 cups of granulated sugar into
the water, heat the water and sugar on the stove over a medium heat, continue stirring until the
sugar melts, keep adding sugar and stirring until it melts, stop adding sugar when you see that it
will no longer dissolve in the water (that is until you see sugar lying on the bottom of the
saucepan). Remove the pot from the stove, let the liquid cool until it is just warm. Pour the liquid
into a clean glass jar. Tie one end of a piece of heavy cord around the middle of a pencil. Place the
pencil over the top of the glass jar letting the cord fall into the liquid. Crystals will begin to form in
a few hours. The next day, remove the cord from the jar, pour the sugar liquid back into the
saucepan, reheat and cool it just as you did before. Pour the liquid back into the jar and reinsert
the cord with the crystals into it. More crystals will form. If you repeat this procedure every day the
crystal candy will grow bigger and bigger. When it has reached a size that pleases you, snip off any
excess string and enjoy.
Rudolph the Reindeer
1/4 c Peanut butter; creamy
2 sl Whole wheat bread
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16 Raisins
4 Cherries
16 Pretzels; twist style
Spread peanut butter on bread slices and cut each slice into four triangles. Turn triangles so point
is down, then place two raisins in center for eyes. Cut cherry in half and place one half at bottom
point for nose. Break twist pretzels to make antlers and place at upper two corners. Variation: Turn
pretzel down near nose to make cats with whiskers.
Snake Hot Dogs
1 Hot dog
1 Hot dog bun
Take hot dog and make horizontal slits (that go a little more than halfway through the hot dog)
down half the length of the hot dog. For the other half of the hot dog do the same thing but make
the slits on the opposite side. When boiled (or microwaved) the hot dog will twist like a snake.
Serve on a hot dog bun with chili or cheese if desired.
Teddy Bear Carousel
1 Apple; cored
8 Teddy grahams
2 Gummi bears
1/4 c Peanut butter; creamy
8 Toothpicks
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