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Ocean Snacks
Contact_FullName: Betsy Contact_Email: russell.jones75@sbcglobal.net Area: Ocean-snack Idea: Coral Reefs Give each child 10 crunchy Cheetos. Use the cheese that squirts from a can to "glue" the Cheetos together. Arrange them to look like coral. When placed on a blue napkin they look like "coral reefs". Contact_FullName: Deb
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ideaI used to eat these when I was a kid. What you do is you make sugar cookies. Cook them until they are almost golden like a beach. Sprinkle sugar on the cookie to make it look like sand. Ice half of it with blue icing to make it look like an ocean. I used to love eating this because the icing tastes so good!
1-16-01For our theme on oceans, we make our own beach. Supplies needed are a small bowl (can be paper or Styrofoam) or a large cup. (bowls work best), vanilla pudding, blue food coloring, Nilla wafers, small party umbrellas (like the kind for drinks and usually can be found in craft or party stores). Place Nilla wafers in Ziploc baggies and have children crush wafers using a rolling pin or round block. Next prepare pudding if not already made, add blue food coloring and mix well. Pour blue pudding into half of bowl or cup, then add finely crushed Nilla wafers to the other half. Open umbrella and place on the Nilla wafer beach. Gummy fish can be added to the ocean and sometimes you can even find gummy grabs for the beach. The kids like the beach so much they almost don't want to eat them.
10-3-00"Little Lobsters" You will need a lobster cookie cutter (found at specialty cooking stores or Martha Stewart?), red or orange tortillas (sun-dried tomato flavor usually) and peanut butter or cheese for traditional quesadilla. Spread the p.b. or melt the cheese on one tortilla and top with a second, then cut out with cookie cutter. Serve on a blue round platter with a bowl of gold fish or fish-shaped pineapple.
7-15-00We make hot dogs into octopi (octopus). Use a whole hot dog for each child. Before cooking slice one end of the hotdog parallel about 1/2 way up. Do this again-so that you have 4 legs. Then cut those each in 1/2 and you end up with 8legs! Boil hotdogs and the arms curl up looking like an octopus!
7-12-00Melt marshmallows in a pan, add blue food coloring to make the "water". Give the children a graham cracker, craft stick and some blue "water". Have them spread and add goldfish crackers.
7-12-00We had a "fish market" buffet for lunch one day. To cut down on costs, I put out a parent sign up sheet for food items. The children served their own plates buffet style and had trays of sample size seafood items to choose from: tuna, crab and salmon on crackers, little cups of clam chowder and oyster stew, fish sticks, shrimp, even calamari rings! We also offered bread, vegetables, and fruit to round out the meal. We talked about likes and dislikes as we ate and made "yum & yuck" graphs afterwards!
6-14-00Tint cream cheese with blue food coloring (for the water) Spread it onto a plate and swirl it around to look like waves. Place fish or whale crackers around to look like they are swimming.
6-9-00Ocean scene: You need: 1 tortilla per child cream cheese with blue food coloring added 1 round cracker per child goldfish crackers sprouts (for seaweed) Have each child ask for their own ingredients by providing clues (what shines in the sky during the day....what did we use?). Also talk about where you will put each item.....The water is at the bottom of the tortilla, the sun is at the top, the fish are in the water. Great activity for developing language concepts and vocabulary as well as following directions.
6-8-00Fish Bowls and Aquariums Tint some cream cheese light blue. Tint some vanilla frosting light blue. Let the children spread the cream cheese on the Ritz crackers and stick on a few goldfish crackers..."fishbowls"! Spread the frosting on graham squares and add goldfish (you can find them in graham flavor, too) for "fish tanks". If you are really ambitious, use colored or chocolate sprinkles on the bottom for pebbles, crushed grahams for sand or coconut tinted green for seaweed. Serve with glasses of "ocean water" (blue Kool-aid.)
5-20-00Marshmallow Octopus Need: large marshmallows, licorice twist that you peel Give each child a large marshmallow and a piece of licorice to peel. (Twizzlers once peeled has nine pieces.) Be sure the children count eight legs - poke the licorice into the marshmallow - eat!
Date: 3-17-00After sorting and graphing Pepperidge Farm fish crackers that come in different flavors for your math activity, have the children eat their fish crackers. Also, provide different types of fish for the children to eat as a snack. Ex: tuna fish, sardines, fish sticks, etc. Be sure to provide crackers with the fish, and don't forget the ketchup and tartar sauce! When all else fails, make Knox blocks Jell-O cut into fish shapes with a fish shape cookie cutter.
Date: 2-29-00Make blue Jell-O and add the new Dole* pineapple Sea Creatures shapes. Pour into individual plastic dessert cups.
2-22-00Going Fishing...Pretzel sticks the thicker ones not the thin pretzel sticks...peanut butter and gold fishes the crackers... use the pretzel stick as the fishing pole and dip it in peanut butter and then dip into a cup of goldfishes...pull it out and there you go you have gone fishing..kids love it b/c it is something interactive..food/playing= great fun
ideaFill a celery stick with cream cheese or cheez whiz and then use triangle crackers (there are several brands that make small triangle shaped ones.) for sails to make a boat.
ideaHow about just plain old.... Peanut butter and "jelly fish" sandwiches! Date: 10-14-99ideaOcean or Aquarium Snack: Using one graham cracker, spread cake icing tinted blue. Over all of the graham cracker, then you may add the little Goldfish crackers, or whales. We used fruit rollups and cut them into seaweed shapes Then we added the small sprinkles that you add to cakes or cupcakes for coral, or aquarium rocks. The children loved it we did have some children that didn't even want to eat them so they took theirs home in a ziplock baggie. Date: 9-29-99Name: Date: 7-29-99When studying the color blue (or Oceans), make blue Jell-O (place gummy fish/shark in before chilling), put whip cream on top for waves. Serve in individual clear cups.
Date: 7-24-99*Jell-o Octopus* Materials needed: small paper cups grape Jell-o (and ingredients) gummy worms Directions: 1) Prepare the grape Jell-o 2) Fill small paper cups to within 1/2 to 1/4" of top 3) Dangle 8 gummy worms over edge of each cup 4) Let set in refrigerator until completely set 5) When ready to serve, dip in hot water and invert on a plate. Voila!! An Octopus!!! Date: 6-30-99Aquarium Snack Cups 1 package (4-serving size) blue gelatin 3/4 cup boiling water 1/2 cup cold water ice cubes gummy fish 4 clear plastic cups Directions: Dissolve gelatin completely in boiling water. Combine cold water and ice cubes to make 1 1/4 cups ice and waters. Add to gelatin, stirring until slightly thickened. Pour thickened gelatin into four clear plastic cups. Suspend gummy fish in gelatin. Refrigerate until set, about one hour. Makes four servings. Date: 4-18-99You'll need pretzel rods (the long fat ones). They will be your fishing pole. Dip them in peanut butter (bait) and catch a goldfish cracker. The kids love to go fishing and the combination tastes good too. 7-17-98 Name: Dee Smith E-Mail: deesmith@idsmail.com Tuna FishToast Bread/English muffin and cut out with fish cookie cutter. Spread tuna fish mixture over the shape and add an olive cut in half for the eye. Enjoy! 7-17-98 Name: Dee Smith E-Mail: deesmith@idsmail.com Star Fish Cookies Use a star shape cookie cutter to cut a star shape from sugar cookie dough. Bake and when the cookies are ALMOST done sprinkle with sesame seeds, place back in the oven and bake until cookies are done. 6-30-98 Name: Kathy E-Mail: MsKathyS@aol.com Octopus Rice Krispy Treats Mix the rice krispy treats as usual. Press into small ball shapes, I used a cookie dough shaper. Cut string licorice to make 8 legs, press into bottom of rice krispies balls. You can make eyes with many different things, mini m&m's, cake sprinkle decorations, etc. 6-13-98 Name: Sharon E-Mail: srfsmf@swbell.net Octopus and Sea Shell Soup Ingredients:*Hotdogs (the fattest you can find) *Small pasta shells* Butter or Margarine Directions: 1. Slice the hotdogs lenghtwise to within 1" from the end 2. Keep slicing the hotdog until you have about 4-8 "legs" 3. Boil shells according to package directions 4. About 4 minutes before the pasta is done put the hotdogs in the boiling water 5. When completely cooked drain well 6. Toss shells with butter or margarine and serve with the hotdogs 7. The hotdogs will curl up and look just like an octopus!! Have Fun and Enjoy! 6-13-98 Name: Emily E-Mail: eebrand2@pe.net Shells and Sand Boil shell macaroni until tender, drain, have children add butter or margerine and then add parmesan cheese. Shells and sand. The children love it and it's nutritious too. 6-9-98 Daylene Aquarium Snacks This is tons of fun, easy, and yummy, too!!! Prepair blueberry jello as stated on the package. Pour the blueberry jello into clear, see-thru plastic cups (the kind that they serve mixed drinks in at parties). In each cup of jello, put in several gummy fishies. Put all the cups in the refrigerator and cool until set. This has always been a favorite with my kiddo's! 6-9-98 Daylene Seaweed...... Yum? This should not be used as your primary snack LOL!!!! Go to an Oriental market and buy several types of products made from seaweed. You can even buy seaweed dried! Let the children taste the different seaweed products. Talk about how it tastes, where it comes from, etc. |
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