There are so many sugary treats out this time of year! Halloween brings non-stop sweets that last all the way through Valentine's Day. Fun food like this Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey get kids excited about eating some of the healthy stuff too! Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey Supplies: pear or apple for the body raisins carrot peanut butter grapes or favorite cut up fruit wooden skewers These turkeys are easy to make and great for … [Read more...]
School Lunch and Kids Snack Ideas
Last week my new weekly show #CoffeeBreak debuted on Google Plus and YouTube (woo hoo!) We tackled all sorts of school food--an area in which I need some inspiration! I had always enjoyed making lunches and snacks until I had to do it for two kids lunches everyday, then it kind of lost its excitement! So I invited some fabulous ladies on to share kid food tips and ideas! I had planned on a 15-20 minute show, but there were so many good ideas we … [Read more...]
Healthy Kids Snack: Painted Toast Flags
Painted Flag Toast turned out to be such a fun and healthy 4th of July kids snack! Instead of using milk and food coloring for our paint like we usually do we decided to try using fruit paint and found it to be delicious! This is one 4th of July craft you can do anytime of day...especially if you need a snack! To make the flag toast snack we cut the bread into a regular shape and made our fruit "paint". We had leftover strawberries and … [Read more...]
How to Make Ice Cream in a Bag
Have you ever made ice cream in a bag before? I haven't in years and the kids never have so we knew we had to put it on our "Old School" Summer Bucket List! Ice cream in a bag was just as much fun to make (and eat!) as we hoped it would be! How to Make Ice Cream in a Bag: 1/2 cup of half and half (also called single cream and 10% coffee cream) 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla quart size plastic bag (good quality) … [Read more...]
Healthy Kids Snack: Watermelon Popsicles
Watermelon + Popsicles = an awesome summer kids snack! One of the items on our "Old School" Summer Bucket List was to make our own popsicles and it was a total success! Instead of using juice we came up with our own popsicle recipe that is both healthy and yummy! How to Make Healthy Watermelon Popsicles 1. Blend chunks of fresh watermelon in the blender until it is smooth and juicy. 2. Pour the juice into popsicle molds or small paper cups. … [Read more...]
No Bake Dog Treats Book and Cook Activity
This month's Virtual Book Club for Kids author, David Shannon, was completely new to us so we went to the library to check out of bunch of his books. Good Boy, Fergus! was the house favorite and we had a lot of fun doing a dog themed kids activity to go along with it. The kids really enjoyed Fergus, the canine main character, because he reminded them of our dogs and how they sometimes act...especially out in public! We love book and cook … [Read more...]
Hunger Heroes: A Food Drive Play Date
Last week we went orange for No Kid Hungry by inviting our friends to the park for a Hunger Heroes play date! Everyone was asked to bring food donations for our local food bank and we were so excited that over 30 of our little friends showed up with enough food to fill 3 large boxes. Each of the Hunger Heroes received a "today I helped end childhood hunger" sticker and an orange super hero cape to signify their good deed. The kids also drew … [Read more...]
Back to School Muffin Tin Meal
Monday nights are busy at our house so a couple months ago we started doing muffin tin dinners. Muffin tin meals are usually just a fancy way to serve leftovers, but this week I made a back to school muffin tin meal to celebrate the first day of school! It was very simple to do. I used kitchen scissors to cut out the sandwiches in the shape of a notebook and wrote ABC on the top with an icing pen. I saw the super cute idea for the cheese pencil … [Read more...]
