Creative Kid Snacks

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This lunch was inspired when, on the way home from the grocery store, my daughter, as is typical, asked what we could make for her creative lunch.  
As we were driving at the time, I began to look around and decided that we could make a stoplight like the one I was approaching.  It was the perfect opportunity to reinforce the girls’ knowledge of what each light means, and why we have stoplights.
To create the post, cut a peanut butter sandwich into thin sections and arrange as shown above.  Next, cut a strawberry, a yellow pepper (banana would work too), and a green grape to similar sizes.  Create the street below by slicing some cheese into thin strips and arrange to form a street.

Egyptian Pyramids

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I recently bought a box of sesame crackers for the girls to use to dip into the fresh, homemade peach jam that our neighbor brought over the other day!  It’s a blessing to have such great neighbors!

I thought a great use of those sesame chips would be to create a pyramid.  So easy!  
First, I pulled up this photo and taught the little one about pyramids:
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 Next, I created the lunch by using the crackers to build the pyramid, creating a dessert-looking ground using some leftover mexican lasagna (recipe – so good!), and adding an Egyptian sun by slicing the top off of a clementine orange and thinly slicing the section I removed into little rays.

Variations:
Ground: oatmeal, sliced cheese, anything that looks like the desert.
Pyramid blocks: chunks of bread, chunks of pineapple
Sun: slice of cheddar cheese cut to shape. 

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Volcano

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Volcanoes and lava have been of particular interest lately in our home.  My daughter can’t stop investigating how volcanoes work by watching Youtube videos featuring lava flows, volcanic explosions, and all thing volcano.
This volcano was made in honor of my daughter’s recent fascination with lava.   The volcano is a grilled cheese sandwich, the lava is ketchup (used for dipping) and the ground below is some rice leftover from last night’s dinner.
Simply cut your grilled cheese sandwich into a triangle, squeeze your ketchup to look like lava, and add something for the ground beneath the volcano.
Teach your children how volcanoes work by showing them this video:

Variations:

Use celery for the ground beneath the volcano for a healthier option.

Hope you enjoy!

 

Jesus on the Cross

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Made on Good Friday, Jesus is made out of a baby carrot.  The main body lies flat because the carrot was sliced in half.  Jesus’ eyes are tiny bits of raisin, his crown of thorns – pretzels, and the cross is a peanut butter sandwich cut into the right shape.  The hill is made of banana.
Grace (age 4) actually asked me to make this one as we had talked all day that day about what Good Friday was about.  To her, this was not morbid or disturbing in any way; rather, it was a beautiful reminder of the amazing love that God had for us sending His son Jesus to die for us in this way.  It was the love of our savior in the form of our lunch.  

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Mr. Peacock

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Mr. Peacock was so fun to make.  The best part is that you can make a colorful tail out of any colorful fruits or veggies you have on hand.  Mine has a body made from a peanut butter sandwich, legs and feet of carrot, and a tail made of celery, bananas, carrots, and blueberries.

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Graduation Day

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For my daughter Grace’s preschool graduation day lunch, I used toast with blackberry jam to make a graduation cap.  A piece of string cheese cut in half lengthwise became the tassels and the diploma.  Diploma is tied with a slice of green onion (which Grace of course did not eat).  Watermelon on the side completed this lunch.

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