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Snacks 
** Indicates meets food
program requirements
Adding a glass of milk or
juice with other snacks may make them meet food program requirements.
Kid Kabobs: Make kid kabobs
using any kind of food you have on hand such as fruit, veggies, or
cheese and meat. Give each child a few thin pretzels and pieces of
food cut into cubes big enough that they can poke the pretzel through
it. Kids love poking the pretzels trough the fruit pieces or
cheese, and then gobbling them up.
** Yogurt Dunkers: Simple
snack kids love, each child gets a cup of yogurt and a handful of
vanilla wafers. They can dunk the cookies in yogurt if they want.
Tastes great together!
** Pretzels & Cheese:
Save those empty yogurt cups to fill with cheese for dipping pretzels
in! Yummy! Kids love to dip! (soft pretzels) If you use hard
pretzels you will need to serve milk or juice to meet food program...
requirements.
** Peanut Butter Tacos: Let
kids spread peanut butter all over a soft shell taco, be sure they have
added enough to meet requirements, let them roll them up for a great
tasting taco!
** Monkey Bread: Use
refrigerated biscuits, cinn., sugar, and butter. Place canned biscuits
in a pan, sides touching, drizzle melted butter all over and then
sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Bake like normal.
** Graham-cracker Creatures:
Give each child a few graham cracker squares, a cup of peanut butter
(once again those yogurt cups come in handy) a plastic knife or child
knife, and various small snack bits like mini marshmallows, chocolate
chips, dried fruit pieces, etc. Kids can spread PNB on graham
crackers and make faces or body parts with the marshmallows and such!
** Hi Ho Spiders: Another
great snack kids can make. Spread cheese on round crackers like Hi
Ho's and add thin pretzels for legs. Remember spiders have eight
legs! Add a couple raisins or chocolate chips for eyes.
Mini Muffin Magic: What's
the magic? Make a batch of Mini Muffins. Pillsbury makes a muffin
mix just right for this... makes 24 mini muffins all you need to add to
the mix is milk! (It is sold in a bag not a box) The magic comes
when you see how quickly the kids gobble up the cute little muffins!
** Cookie Cutter Sandwiches:
Make sandwiches out of cheese, meat, PNB, tuna salad, etc. what ever you
have on hand. Cut them out with different shaped cookie cutters
for a snack the kids will love to eat! Use cookie cutters to
correspond with the theme for the day... i.e. use animal cookie cutters
when you do a zoo theme.
Veggies & Dip: Cut
veggies up into skinny dipping sizes and let kids dip them into some
yummy ranch dressing or veggie dip! Some kids will enjoy dipping
them into **yogurt too!
** Cheesy English Muffins:
Toast an English muffin in the toaster then slap on a slice of cheese
and pop it in the microwave for a few seconds! Yummy!
** Mini Pizzas: Same idea as
above only spoon a little pizza sauce on the English muffin before you
add the cheese. Use grated mozzarella cheese and toss in a 350°
oven for a few minutes.
**Yogurt Pops: 1 - 32oz.
container of strawberry yogurt, 1 - small can crushed pineapple,
including juice. Put both items in your blender and blend until well
mixed. Pour into Popsicle makers and freeze! -Submitted by Pamm in AZ
Animals In The Mud: Chocolate
pudding with animal crackers on top makes animals in the mud. -Submitted
by Jane Goodson
GOIN' FISHIN': Goldfish crackers
Peanut Butter on individual plates for each child Stick pretzels (the
short stick ones) Give each child some crackers, pretzels and goldfish
on their own plate. Show them how to go fishing, by dipping one end of
the stick pretzel into the peanut butter. Then pick up a goldfish with
that same end. Wow! You caught one! Now eat it all gone! - Submitted by
Debbi Mllinix
Ants On A Log: (for those who
don't love celery!) Cut bananas in half and then the halves in half
creating the "log" look. Spread peanut butter on the
"logs" and then sprinkle raisins (bugs) on that. -Submitted by
Traci
Veggie S'mores: Layer julienned
carrots, celery, cucumber and zucchini on toasted bread cut into squares
in between vegetable or chive cream cheese. -Submitted by Marnie Flood
Homemade Calzones: 1 tbsp. ricotta
cheese, 1 tbsp. shredded mozzarella cheese, 2 strips ham (about the size
of a matchbook). I use refrigerated pie crusts and cut each circle in
half. use 1 layer each cheese and then the ham, fold over crust and bake
on sprayed cookie sheet at 350 until golden brown. -Submitted by Marine
Flood
Happy Trail Mix: 1 Cup tiny
marshmallows, 2 Cups Honey graham cereal, 1/2 /cup semi-sweet choc
chips, 1 Cup chopped peanuts*, 1/2 Cups Raisins. Combine all
ingredients. Store in closed plastic bag or closed container. Serve in
bright colored red or blue paisley handkerchief. * Peanuts pose a
choking danger for small children. I also have used M and M's,
-Submitted by Jodi D.
Soft Shells and Cheese: 2 soft
shells and any kind of cheese. Take one soft shell and put your cheese
on it then place the other shell on top, Place in oven and cook for 5
min or until they are nice and brown. -Submitted by Jodi D
Flying Saucers: Bologna slices and
American cheese slices. Place bologna slice on a paper towel. Place a
cheese slice on top. Microwave until cheese melts and bologna curls.
Submitted by Shelly Boone
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