Summer Snacks

Fire Cracker Sandwich

Bread
Peanut butter, jelly, or other favorite sandwich filling
Clear plastic wrap
Yarn or ribbon

Cut the crusts off the bread. Flatten the bread with a rolling pin. (The children just like to "smush" it with their hand.) Spread on your sandwich filling. Roll up tightly like a jelly roll. Wrap in a piece of plastic wrap. Twist the ends of the plastic wrap and tie with a piece of ribbon. It will look like a firecracker!

Edible Mud Pies

Instant chocolate pudding
2 cups cold milk
Flat bottom ice cream cones
Plastic container with tight sealing lid
(Place the pudding mix in the plastic container before starting this activity.)

Ask the children if they've ever had mud pies. Tell them you have and they're delicious. Show them the container and explain that it's dirt. Pass it around and let them smell it. (Be cool and don't let on!) Build vocabulary by talking about how dry the dirt is. What's the difference between dirt and mud? Suggest adding a liquid and pour in the two cups milk. Seal tightly, then pass the container around the group, encouraging each child to "shake, shake, shake." Open it up and have the children describe what happened. Serve in the ice cream cones.

Adaptations: Add seeds (sunflowers) and a worm (gummy worm).

Life Preserver Sandwich

Bagel
Cream cheese
Blue food coloring
Fish Crackers

Add a few drops of blue food coloring to the cream cheese. Let the children spread the cream cheese on one half of a bagel. Decorate with 4 or 5 fish crackers.

Dream Sicle Drink

Orange juice
Frozen vanilla yogurt
Blender
Pour 2 cups of orange juice in the blender. Add several large scoops of the vanilla yogurt. Blend until smooth.

Adaptations: Make a "purple cow" by mixing grape juice with the vanilla yogurt.

Tin Can Ice Cream

Homemade ice cream mixture
1 lb coffee can with lid
2 lb coffee can with lid
Crushed ice
Rock salt
Tape

Put the homemade ice cream mixture in the 1 lb. can and tape the lid on. Put the smaller can in the larger can and then pack it layers of ice and salt in between. Place the top on and tape it securely. Kick the can around on the playground for 10-15 minutes until the ice cream freezes.

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