Snack Ideas

Here's some cute ideas i found:
First Recipe:
Butterfly Bites
Ingredients:1 celery cut into fourths
8 twisted pretzels (small)
8 stick pretzels
cream cheese(serves 4)

Spread the cream cheese in the middle of the celery slices.Stick the twisted pretzels in the cream cheese to make the wings. Stick the pretzel sticks in the front of the celery make antenna. Let them fly the butterflies around the room before they eat them.

Second Recipe:
Take two whole graham crackers, yogurt (or just whip cream) place in between the graham crackers. Wrap with aluminum foil. Place in the freezer and freeze overnight. You can do a lot of variations with this snack. One of my favorites is to take strawberry cream cheese (fat free) with Cool Whip, one package of strawberries. Blend and place in between crackers and freeze. Delicious and nutritious.

Third Recipe:
Penguins: one oreo cookie. Twist off one side and break into two piece. These are the wings of the penguin. Put back on other half with white side showing. Spread two pieces out like wings. Add a chocolate kiss as the head and beak.

Have fun!!!

family fun magazine has a website and they have lists of all sorts of fun snacks. You can even search by certain themes, if you want to get creative.
S.

my 2.5 year old loves cherrios mixed w/ rasins.

- Any kind of fresh fruit
- Vanilla yogert with a couple of fresh fruit choices on the side so they can build their own
- Gram crackers with Cool Whip (can use favored grams or flavored cool whip)
- Crackers, cheese, and ham
- Mini weiners rolled in crasants
- Go-gert

nk

I have recently discovered the magic of rice krispy treats! lol They have less sugar than packaged stuff and the kids really think they are getting 'junk food'. The biggest plus, though, is since there are only 3 ingredients, they are usually safe for allergies. The healthy snacks are always best, but once in a while kids deserve a treat!
~L.

My kids always liked taking things like cheese cubes, bananas, animal crackers, goldfish crackers. Happy snacking!