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BANANA POPS
Ingredients:
 Banana on a stick
yogurt
nuts, coconut or granola
Directions:
- Dip banana in yogurt
- Then roll in nuts, coconut, or granola.
- Freeze.
FRUIT DIP
Ingredients:
6 oz can frozen apple juice concentrate
6 oz can water
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. Vanilla
Directions:
- Mix all ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and serve as a dip for fruits or use over ice cream.
MINI PIZZA
 Ingredients: per child
1 canned biscuit
1 tsp. grated mozzarella cheese
1 Tbl. tomato sauce
1 tsp. grated Parmesan cheese
2 small pepperoni slices
Directions:
- Flatten a biscuit and spoon tomato sauce on it.
- Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on sauce and put pepperoni on the cheese
- Sprinkle meat with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake in toaster oven for about 10 minutes.
RAISIN LETTERS
Ingredients:
1 pkg. softened cream cheese
1 rice cake for each child
3/4 cup raisins
Directions:
1. Spread cream cheese on rice cakes.
2. Use raisins to make letters on the rice cakes.
Another Suggestions
*Ask the child to hand you a rice cake with a certain letter on it. Like the first letter of their name.
FINGER JELLO (KNOX BLOX)
Ingredients:
7 envelopes unflavored gelatin (or 4 envelopes unflavored gelatin and 3 envelopes flavored)
4 cups boiling fruit juice (or 4 cups boiling water)
Directions:
- Mix and pour into a 13" X 9" pan.
- Chill until firm and cut into squares
STRAWBERRIES AND BANANA SMOOTHIE
Ingredients:
 6 Strawberries
1 Banana
¼ Strawberry yogurt
3 Ice Cubes
Directions:
1. Process ingredients in blender to puree
SPIDER PRETZELS
 Ingredients:
2 round crackers
2 tsp. peanut butter
8 small stick pretzels
2 raisins
Directions:
- Make a “cracker sandwich” with the peanut butter
- Stick the pretzel “legs” in the middle of the sandwich
- Stick the raisin “eyes” on top with a dab of peanut butter
ORANGE FROSTY
Ingredients:
½ cup frozen orange-juice concentrate
1 cup milk or plain yogurt
1 teaspoon sugar, optional
4 to 5 ice cubes
Directions:
Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend
ANTS ON A LOG
 Ingredients:
Celery
Peanut butter or cheez Whiz
Raisins
Directions:
- Fill celery with peanut butter or cheese whiz
- Add raisins on top
BUGGY WHEELS
Ingredients:
1 Carrot and 1 celery stalk per 2 children
peanut butter and raisins
toothpicks
Directions:
- Cut carrot into disks shapes.
- The toothpicks form the back and front of the buggy. The carrots form the wheels. First, insert a toothpick through 1 carrot disk and repeat for the other set of wheels.
- Spear the celery with the toothpick wheels, making it look like a car.
- Spread peanut butter on celery and add raisins.
GRANOLA
Ingredients:
3 tsp. Rolled oats
1 tsp. Sunflower seeds
3 raisins
1 tsp cashews
1/8 of a cup molasses
Directions:
1. Fry all ingredients together in a small amount of oil
JELLO FREEZE POPS
Ingredients:
3 oz package of Jello (flavored gelatin)
1 cup of hot water
2 cups any juice (should compliment jello- orange juice with orange jello)
(12) 3 oz cups and 12 wooden craft sticks
Directions:
- Boil Water and mix until jello is dissolved
- Add juice and pour mixture into cups
- Refrigerate after an hour insert sticks into cups and freeze until solid
CROCODILE SMILE SNACKS
 Ingredients;
Green apples
Peanut butter
Miniature marshmallows
- Directions:
- Cut apples into eights
- Give each child 2 slices
- Have the children spread some peanut butter on each slice
- Put marshmallows on top
- Place the other apple slice on tip of the marshmallows to complete the smile
PEACH DESSERT
 Ingredients:
Canned peach halves
Frozen yogurt
Granola
Directions:
- Place a scoop of frozen yogurt inside the peach half
- Sprinkle on granola
QUICK GRAHAM CRACKER DESSERT
Ingredients:
Graham Crackers
Honey
Milk
Directions:
- Crumble graham crakers in a bowl
- Add a little honey and warm milk
- Mash and Mix
OATMEAL BARS
Ingredients:
2 cups of uncooked oatmeal
½ cup of butter
¾ brown sugar
Baking soda
Directions:
- Boil sugar, butter and a dash of baking soda
- Add oatmeal
- Spread mixture on a well-greased cookie sheet
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
- Cut into bars and eat
INSTANT HOMEMADE BANANA PUDDING
Ingredients:
½ small Banana
3 Tablespoons of applesauce
1 teaspoon plain yogurt
Directions:
- Mash Banana
- Add applesauce
- Stir in 1 teaspoon plain yogurt
PEANUT BUTTER BALLS
Ingredients:
½ cup of peanut butter
2 ½ tablespoons non fat diary creamer
2 tablespoons raisins
2 tablespoons honey
¼ cup coconut
raisins, sesame seeds or granola
Directions:
- Mix ingredients together
- Form into Balls
- Roll in sesame seeds or granola
APPLES IN HAND
 Ingredients:
Apples
Peanut butter
Raisins
Wheat germ or granola
Directions:
- Core Apples
- Mix Peanut butter with raisins, wheat germ or granola
- Slice the apple in half and fill the core with mixture
TRAIL MIX
Ingredients:
Pretzels
Goldfish crackers
Raisins
Peanuts
Dry fruit or dry cereal
Directions:
- Pour pretzels in a bowl with a cover
- Pour in goldfish, raisins, peanuts and dry fruit or cereal
- Put lid on the bowl and shake
PYRAMID TORTILLA RECIPE
 Ingredients:
1 8-inch tortilla
2 ounces thin sliced turkey or ham
2 Tablespoons shredded cheese
1/4 cup shredded lettuce
1 Tablespoon raisins
Fat Free cream cheese
Directions:
- Have children spread cream cheese on their tortilla.
- Then layer on the meat, cheese, lettuce and raisins.
- Roll up and enjoy.
JELLO APPLE WEDGES
Ingredients:
One box of sugar free Jello any flavor
One Red Delicious Apple
Directions:
- Pour box of Jello into plastic bag
- Slice the apple into wedges
- Drop the apple wedges into the Jello mix and shake until apple wedge is completely covered in Jello
- Chill for about one hour and serve
JUICY FINGER BLOCKS
Ingredients:
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
3/4 cup boiling water
1-12-oz. can frozen apple, orange, grape, or other juice concentrate
Directions:
- Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
- Add juice and stir until mixed.
- Pour into a lightly greased 9 x 13 inch cake pan.
- Chill in the refrigerator about 2 hours until firm.
- Cut into squares or use cookie cutters to make shapes.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
EDIBLE AQUARIUMS
 Ingredients:
Melba Taost
Fat Free Cream Cheese
Goldfish Crackers ( babies if possible)
Blue Food Coloring
Directions:
- Add a few drops of food coloring to the cream cheese
- Spread the cream cheese on the melba toast
- Add Goldfish
CREPES
Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 cup skim milk
Directions:
- Combine all ingredients with a wire whisk and set aside 5 minutes.
- Heat a small non-stick pan using about 2 Tbl. batter per crepe.
- Use a swirling motion with your wrist to evenly coat pan. When brown, turn briefly, and then serve.
- May be filled with any filling desired
COCONUT UGLIES
 Ingredients:
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 Tbl. powdered dry milk
1 tsp. honey
flaked coconut, peanuts, and licorice string
Directions:
- Mix peanut butter, milk and honey.
- Roll into a ball.
- Sprinkle with coconut hair.
- Press on peanuts for eyes.
- Cut licorice strings into sort pieces for tail and antennae.
CRUNCHY BANANAS
Ingredients:
banana cut into 1" thick slices
popsicle stick
orange juice
coconut, wheat germ, or chopped peanuts
Directions:
- Spear banana slices with stick
- Dip in juice
- Roll in favorite topping
SPINNING WHEELS
Ingredients:
2 slices whole wheat bread with removed crusts
peanut butter
1/2 banana
Directions:
- Spread peanut butter on the bread. Peel the banana and cut it 1/2 lengthwise and across.
- Put banana on peanut butter and put together like a sandwich.
- Flatten with a rolling pin.
- Roll and cut
APPLESAUCE MUFFINS
 Ingredients:
2 Tbl. whole wheat pastry flour mixture (2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, and 1/2 tsp. salt)
1 Tbl. applesauce mixture (1 cup applesauce, 1 tsp. cinnamon)
1 tsp. egg
1/2 Tbl. oil
1 Tbl. brown sugar
Directions:
- Mix all ingredients and pour into a lined muffin tin.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Provided by the Martin/Pit Partnership for Children
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