Heart Warming Oatmeal

February 5, 2013 By

Do your kids love oatmeal as much as mine do?  Fresh berry oatmeal or oatmeal with fruit preserves is even better, right?  Make a Valentines Day breakfast for your kids that they will love to eat!

Oatmeal is one of the best breakfasts for kids.  It keeps them full and has more protein than other grain-based breakfasts.  It’s something to feel good about feeding the kids.  What’s better, if you top it with some organic berry preserves (such as Costco brand), the kids will love you forever!

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Step 1: Prepare Oatmeal and Strawberries

Cook oatmeal as directed and place into a bowl.

To create heart strawberries, slice strawberries in half from top to bottom so they lay flat.  Then, carefully slice a small “V” into the top center to look like a heart.  Use the little fruit hearts as a garnish to your dish.

Step 2: Create Jam Heart

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Place several tablespoons of berry preserves into a microwavable container – preferably one from which you can pour later!  Microwave for 30 seconds.

Next, use a small heart shaped cookie cutter to help you make your heart.  Press the cookie cutter slightly into the oatmeal, then pour in your warm preserves, filling the shape.

Step 3: Remove cookie cutter and serve

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Carefully pull your cookie cutter straight up from the oatmeal – leaving your beautiful heart-shaped jam in the center.

Congratulations!  You have now created a Valentines day breakfast full of flavor that the kids will love!

Take a look at our other Valetine’s Day Snacks

Valentines Day Pancakes

I love you yogurt breakfast

Guess How Much I Love You? Snack

Valentines Day Apples

 

P.S. – Also check out Super Healthy Kids’ Valentines Day Oatmeal for another great idea!

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Valentines Day Pancakes

February 3, 2013 By

Valentines Day is almost here!  How about a sweet little breakfast for your Valentine?  Make these easy Valentines Day Pancakes!

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To create this little plate, simply prepare two medium or one large pancake on your skillet.  Next, take your heart shaped cookie cutter and cut out as many little hearts as desired.

Next, give the hearts a little personality, which is what we do on Creative Kid Snacks!  I used chocolate chips for their eyes, and a small slice of a strawberry for their mouths.  How sweet!

As a finishing touch, I added little whipped cream polka dots around the plate for a little something special for my little Valentines.

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Enjoy!  (Sharing HERE)

Check out our other Valentines Day Food.

 

Guess How Much I Love You? Snack

 

Valentines Day Apples

 

I love you yogurt breakfast

 

 

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Snowflake Breakfast

January 28, 2013 By

Celebrate winter, snow, a snow day off school, or just make breakfast fun with snowflake pancakes!

Snowflake Pancakes

Snowflake pancakes are so easy to create.

Prepare your pancakes, and place one onto the center of a plate.

Next, use an aerosol whipped cream container to “draw” a simple snowflake design as shown above.  Make a hexagon around the border of the pancake, and add a three pointed branch coming out of each of the six points.

For a finishing, snowy touch, sprinkle some powdered sugar in the middle.

Serve snowflake pancakes alongside some fresh raspberries or strawberries and a small serving of scrambled eggs for a delightful snow day breakfast the kids will love!

Snowflake Pancakes

What to do with the rest of the day?

Take a look at some awesome snow day activities to do with your child after breakfast is over!  These links are from some of my favorite parenting and education blogs!

Awesome Snow Day Activities

CLICK on the photo to view the activity instructions

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Make an ice snowman inside

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“Cook” with the snow

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Make snowman art

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Create a snow volcano

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Make a toilet paper roll snowman

Paint snowmen using Q-tips

Paint snowmen using Q-tips

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Teach the kids about snow plows and make a 3-D craft together

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Make some snow spray paint

Take a nature walk and prepare some special hot chocolate

Take a nature walk and prepare some special hot chocolate

Print a snowman coloring page or 2 and design your own snowmen

Print a snowman coloring page or 2 and design your own snowmen

Make rainbow snow

Make rainbow snow

Prepare some snowman treats

Prepare some snowman treats

Have a special ice cube scavenger hunt

Have a special ice cube scavenger hunt

Make a tin can snowman wind chime

Make a tin can snowman wind chime

Read snow books and play snow games

Read snow books and play snow games

Bring the snow inside to play

Bring the snow inside to play

Make an upside-down snowman

Make an upside-down snowman

Make an snowy South Pole bath

Make an snowy South Pole bath

 

Make a snowy scene sensory box

Make a snowy scene sensory box

Build mini snowmen - inside!

Build mini snowmen – inside!

 

And also check out these other awesome ideas:

Snowman Stories and Crafts Collection – Growing Book by Book

Super fun Snowball Games – Thinking IQ Blog

Glitter Snowflakes – Mess for Less

Study Snowflake shapes – Play DrMom

Rainbow Snowflakes – Reading Confetti

3-D Cotton Ball Snowmen – Crystal’s Tiny Treasures

Marshmallow Snow Craft – Hands on: As We Grow

Make Borax Snow Crystals – Kid’s Activities Blog

Hope you enjoy all of these wonderful activities for a snow day!

Before you go, make sure you check out other Creative Kid Snacks involving snow!

Cottage Cheese Snowman

Downhill Skier

Snowman Milk Chugs

Snowman Party Poppers

Snowman Popcorn Cups

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Snail

August 28, 2012 By
I love the idea of using bright, colorful fruit to recreate some of the beautiful scenes we see in nature.  Although snail shells are not known to be this bright, the two colors I used contrast themselves to show the beautiful pattern that these shells naturally have.
Slice a banana in half lengthwise to make the snail’s body.  Place a ground of oatmeal beneath him.
Add a raisin eye and a sliced blueberry for a mouth.  Use a tiny bit of the other half of the banana for some antennae.
For the shell, use contrasting fruits like raspberries and grapes to form a swirly shell look as shown above.
This one is great to make after reading a book like this:
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Mickey Mouse

August 16, 2012 By
Mickey Mouse is one of Disney’s most beloved characters of all time.  We love Disney in our house.  We’ve made Winnie the Pooh, Mike Wazowski, the house from the film “Up”, and today we are making Mickey Mouse!
This Mickey was the perfect breakfast.  Oatmeal, raisins, and yogurt are the perfect combination!
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Make a semi-circular shape on the plate with your oatmeal.  Next, add Mickey’s ears with the raisins.  Use the plastic bag method shown below to easily draw two oval eyes and the mouth.
Draw the mouth, then add a small piece of watermelon to look like his tongue.
That’s it!
Now, I have one daughter who likes raisins, and one who doesn’t.  Grace, the oldest, wanted a Mickey but did not want raisins.  For her, a threw some raisins into some white bowls for the presentation, then left her with just the face to eat.

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I Love You

August 6, 2012 By
 
This Valentines Day inspired snack is plain yogurt served in a heart shaped cookie cutter with grapes, blueberries, and strawberries along with some drizzled honey over top.  The “I” is made of celery and the “u” is made of sliced up string cheese.
A sweet lunch like this is one way I show my little girl how much I love her!  
Try using one of your favorite cookie cutters to jazz up your child’s yogurt and fruit snack anytime!

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

August 4, 2012 By

We all love the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  
Take a morning and read the story with your child, then talk about all the foods the caterpillar ate, and perhaps talk about which of the foods he ate were nutritious and which were not. 
Then, create him yourself!  Take a large strawberry and slice to create his head.  Next, create his eyes by using little bits of pineapple cut into circles and place sliced green jelly belly candies in front.  Form his body with green grapes , carrot feet, raisin mouth, and ham antennae.  He is walking on an oatmeal ground and taking in the cheddar cheese sun! 

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Mike Wazowski

July 23, 2012 By

Do you recognize this guy from Monsters Inc.?  Mike Wazowski is made of a honeydew melon sliced and cored.  His eye is made of yogurt, sugar snap peas, and a blueberry.  His mouth is also made of bluberries.  I sliced him up in order to make the eating part easier for my little Disney fan.

After the photo, I sliced Mike all around for Grace to enjoy.

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Giraffe

July 20, 2012 By

 
This giraffe is so tasty!  I found it hard to shape it just right – but did my best.  His body is a cantaloupe cut to shape, and his spots are strawberries.  With his raisin eye he is checking things out!

This snack would be great to make after a trip to the zoo. 

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Tropical Island

July 4, 2012 By

This tropical island getaway is created by using oatmeal for the land/sand, yogurt for the waves, a graham cracker tree trunk, sugar snap peas for leaves, and colby jack cheese for a sun.
Makes me want a vacation!

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