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Contact_FullName: Gale
Contact_Email: gliebert@aol.com
date:: 03/23/02
Area: Easter Snack
Idea:
Bunny Cupcakes: Bake a white cupcake in an appropriate Easter liner. Using either home-made or canned frosting, separate and color a small portion pink. Frost the cupcake with white icing, then sprinkle with coconut. Separate a cameo cookie (long oval crème cookie) and scrape off the crème filling. Frost the center of each cookie with pink. Insert these "bunny ears" into the cupcake 1/3 from the top (if placed too close the edge, the cupcake will split apart). Add two blue M&M's for eyes, half a pink jelly bean for a nose, and red licorice whips for whiskers.
- Contact_FullName:
- Kelly
- Contact_Email:
- kmlh1809@bellatlantic.net
4-19-00
Easter Chick Nests
Make a batch of drop sugar cookies. While they are
cooling, dye coconut green, get a bag of jelly beans, white cake frosting,
and a box of marshmallow peeps. Take the cake icing and spread it on the
cool cookie. Sprinkle some of the tinted coconut. Place the marshmallow
peep on top. Take some of the jelly beans and place them around the peep.
This is a fun snack for children 2 and older.
- Contact_FullName:
- Julie
- Contact_Email:
- julieeffinger@hotmail.com
Date: 4-8-00
Birds Nests: Use pastel Rice Krispies and mix up Rice Krispie squares. Have children butter hands so the mixture doesn't stick. Have the children form a "nest" with a scoop of the rice krispie mixture. Then place a few jelly beans in the nest and place a candy Peep (the chick) on top of the jellybeans. There you have a bird's nest!!
- Contact_FullName:
- Jo-Anne
- Contact_Email:
- jo-annemccloskey@home.com
Date: 4-8-00
Easter Breakfast Place two pretzel sticks side by side (this is the bacon). Take a spoon full of melted vanilla candy wafers and place over the pretzels (this is the egg white). Put an yellow M&M in the center of the egg white (this is the egg yolk). A yummy snack (breakfast)!
- Contact_FullName:
- Jo-Anne
- Contact_Email:
- jo-annemccloskey@home.com
Date: 4-8-00
Easter Jell-O eggs: Make your Jell-O according to the package but substitute vanilla ice cream for the cold water. For Easter colors try Giggly Grape flavor or any of the red Jell-O's. You'll end up with pretty pastel colors. Fill the hollow egg molds (available in grocery stores at Easter) with the Jell-O. Very pretty and everyone including adults love them.
- Contact_FullName:
- Tamara
- Contact_Email:
- egore@lightdog.com
Date: 4-5-00
I got this from another teacher. Easter Basket Cookies Use slice and bake cookie dough. Cut it into 1/4 inch slices line muffin tins with paper liners. Press cookies slices into the pan flute the edges slightly and bake. You can decorate with frosting or fill with small candies. You can color shredded cocoanut for Easter grass. Be creative.
- Contact_FullName:
- Missy
- Contact_Email:
- mjm413@aol.com
Date: 3-28-00
Bunny Cake
Bake one 8 or 9 inch round yellow cake. After it cools, lay it flat and cut it down the middle to have 2 halves. Ice one side of one piece of cake. Stand the piece up so that the cut edge is on the cake plate. Now, put the other piece beside it. You will have what looks like a half circle (this is the bunny). You can add a little icing to the cake plate to help the bunny sit up correctly. Ice the rest of the cake with white icing. Add white coconut for the fur. Add 2 paper cut ears, 2 red jelly bean eyes, one black jelly bean nose. You can use a big marshmallow for the tail and for the feet. Add a big ribbon bow for a bow tie. I found Easter ribbon that worked great. Color some coconut green with food coloring and sprinkle it around the bunny for "grass". Toss a few jelly beans on the grass and it looks very festive.
You can use any Easter candy for the body parts if you wish! It is very cute and something different from the formed bunny cake pans.
- Contact_FullName:
- Kathy
- Contact_Email:
- kat3668@aol.com
Date: 3-23-00
A fun and healthy Easter time snack to prepare with the children are Easter egg bagels. First you separate some cream cheese into small bowls. Then tint the cheese with food coloring. Provide each child with a half of a bagel and a plastic knife. then let the children spread different colors of cream cheese on their bagels and eat! colorful Easter egg bagels!!
- Contact_FullName:
- Angela
- Contact_Email:
- hdaniel@metter.org
Date: 3-22-00
I'm a Pre-K Teacher Assistant and our children love cooking and eating different foods.
Bake a 16x20 cake (plain)
Cut the cake into 12 squares
Give each child
a: Easter cookie cutter
Jelly beans
Icing (green-pink etc..)
Sprinkles
Decorate and Enjoy *The kids will love it.*
- Contact_FullName:
- Becky
- Contact_Email:
- daz-beck@currantbun.com
Date: 3-5-00
A cream egg Easter piggy.
First color some marzipan pink. Then make two little ears, four little stumps ( legs ) and a snout. Melt a little chocolate and attach the bits of marzipan to a cream egg. Then add the melted chocolate to the bottom of the legs and stick into a chocolate biscuit. Using white icing pipe on two eyes. Don't forget the pigs tail!!
- Contact_FullName:
- debby
- Contact_Email:
- debbymatassa@hotmail.com
Date: 2-29-00
For sweet Easter baskets, purchase a doughnut for each student in your group. Place it on a small paper plate and let the the children sprinkle colored or white shredded coconut flakes in the center. Put pretty jelly beans on the coconut, and use a red licorice whip for the basket (doughnut) handle.
- Contact_FullName:
- Sharon
- Contact_Email:
- SCLLNS@AOL.COM
Date: 1-9-00
Bird's Nests 1/3c. butterscotch morsels
1c.chow mein noodles
candy robin's eggs
Melt butterscotch morsels in a medium microwave safe bowl. Add chow mein noodles to melted morsels and mix. Let children shape into circle on waxpaper. Use a large spoon to make indention in center. Let nests harden and then add eggs.
Just for fun we made the nests before naptime and put a note on the nests that the children dictated, asking the birds to fill our nests. We set the nests outdoors (I brought them in while children napped and returned them outdoors before waking children). When the chidlren woke they hurried out to see their filled nests!
- Contact_FullName:
- Sharon
- Contact_Email:
- SCLLNS@AOL.COM
Date: 1-9-00
Easter Bunnies
Pear halves
Raisins
Minature marshmallows
Lettuce
Apple slices
Cream cheese
Children place a lettuce leaf on their plate.
Place pear half on lettuce, for body.
Add raisins using cream cheese as glue, for eyes and nose.
Add apples slice using cream cheese, for ears.
Add minature marshmallow using cream cheese, for tail.
3-18-99
Daylene
daylene@perpetualpreschool.com
Follow the recipe for Jello Jigglers on the back of any Jello box. When the they are firm, let the children use Easter cookie cutters to cut out shapes in the Jigglers! Yum :)
4-10-98
Name: michelle E-Mail: mkoch@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us
Make a regular batch of rice krispys. Press the rice krispys into a buttered cupcake tin. Press the rice krispys down to look like a bird nest. Have the child place a scoop of green frosting into the nest. Add jelly beans or malted eggs for the eggs. This cooking project can go with a unit on nests or Easter. A pipe cleaner can be added for a handle if it is to be an Easter nest.
4-10-98
Name: KIM E-Mail: Jbinder@wincom.net
Easter Baskets
Make muffins with the children. Once they have cooled add coloured icing on top. Then place thin licorice over the top of muffin making it appear as a handle. Then have children add jellybeans and you have an edible easter basket.
4-1-98
Name: Monica E-Mail: MREED37828 @ aol.com
I found this Idea in a Troll book. Popcorn Sculpture.
You will Need:
2 quarts popped corn
1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
1 package regular marshmallows (10 oz. bag)
Pink jellybeans and gumdrops
1/4 cup light corn syrup
Large mixing bowl, large saucepan, dish or platter,
mixing spoon, potholder, measuring cup.
Steps:
1. Measure 2 quarts of popped corn into a large mixing bowl.
2. Melt butter or margarine in a large saucepan over low heat.
Stir in the marshmallows and melt thoroughly. Add the
light corn syrup to mixture. Remove from heat.
3. Pour the mixture over the popcorn. Stir until the popcorn is
evenly coated.
4. While the popcorn is still warm, but not hot, mold it
into the shape of a bunny. Make one large oval ball
for the body. Add a smaller ball for the head. Put a
very small ball on the back for a tail. Shape two long
ears and attach them to the top of the head.
5. Push two pink jellybeans into the face for the eyes.
Add a pink gumdrop for a nose.
(Editor's Note: Be sure that you use this recipe with older preschool children. Remember, popcorn is a choking hazard for toddlers.)
2-19-98
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol
With the jello egg molds I make multi-colored Easter jello eggs for the kids. They love it and always ask for seconds.
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol. com
I make each child in the class a bunny face shape cake. Then the children get to decorate it however they want. We use frosting, coconut, jelly beans, licorice, sprinkles, etc.... The children then enjoy eating their creations for snack on the day of our Easter party.
