Someone's in the kitchen with momma.
Someone's in the kitchen,
let's go.
Someone's in the kitchen with momma.
They're stirring up fun,
I know!
This month you'll find some of my favorite "kid-tested" recipes. They're simple, fun, easy, and healthy. (Well, most of them are fairly nutritional!)You could run these off and let the children make a cookbook for Mother's Day, or use them in your classroom throughout the year.
Everybody loves to eat, and cooking is a natural way to develop reading, math, science, and small motor skills. These recipes can be used with a small group, or you can make up rebus cooking charts so children can do them independently at a learning center. Many can be integrated with a theme ("Zoo Train" for a trip to the zoo), season ("Dirt Pie" in the spring), or literature ("Spider Sandwich"' for THE VERY BUSY SPIDER). Make sure children are supervised carefully and integrate good health concepts (hand washing) and etiquette.
Happy stirring,
beating,
mixing,
and
eating!!
Hint! Please be aware of food allergies individual children may have. Cream cheese can be substituted in many of the recipes using peanut butter; cheese slices can be substituted for meat products; honey can be used instead of sugar; etc. You may also want to halve recipes for younger children.
You will need:
2 slices of bread
peanut butter and honey
raisins
8 pretzel sticks
Directions:
1. Wash your hands
2. Cut 2 circles out of the bread with a cookie cutter or plastic cup.
3. Spread peanut butter and honey on one circle.
4. Put the other circle on top to make the spider's body.
5. Make a face with raisins.
6. Add 8 pretzel sticks for legs.
7. Eat it and let it wiggle and jiggle and tickle inside you!
Hint! Use carrot sticks or cheese curls for legs. Substitute cream cheese for peanut butter and honey.
You will need:
hot dog bun
banana
peanut butter
Directions:
1. Wash your hands.
2. Spread peanut butter in the hot dog bun.
3. Peel the banana and put it in the bun.
4. Eat your sandwich, and don't monkey around!
Hint! Put tuna fish in a hot dog bun. Put a slice of cheese on top and broil it. You'll have a "fish tail" sandwich.
You will need:
1 graham cracker
2 animal cookies
icing
Directions:
1. Wash your hands
2. Put 2 pats of icing on the graham cracker.
3. Stand the animal cookies up on the icing.
4. Eat those wild animals before they get you!
Hint! You can also stand up animal cookies with peanut butter or cream cheese.
You will need:
celery
peanut butter
raisins
Directions:
1. Wash your hands.
2. Take a stalk of celery (the log).
3. Spread peanut butter (mud) in the celery.
4. Place raisins (ants) on top of the peanut butter.
5. March the ants into your mouth! MMMM!
Hint! Use cream cheese instead of peanut butter and make "birds in the snow."
You will need:
1 bagel (cut in half)
cream cheese
blue food coloring
fish crackers
Directions:
1. Wash your hands
2. Dye the cream cheese blue with a few drops of blue food coloring.
3. Spread cream cheese on the bagel.
4. Arrange several fish crackers on the cream cheese.
5. Swim it into your mouth.