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11-18-00I buy the freezer roll sugar cookies. We use western shape cutters and bake cookies. You could also make doggies in a saddle by using hot dogs in a bun.
9-26-00My preschoolers love when we make flapjacks for snack. We don't call them pancakes during our cowboy unit!
7-22-00Every year, our two year olds have a snack out on the range. We build a "campfire" out of three pieces of firewood. Form a triangle with the wood, and place a sheet of red cellophane, orange cellophane, and yellow cellophane in the center to look like fire. (Don't forget to emphasize that this fire is pretend-real fire is hot!) -Be certain you have checked for allergies in your class- Have the children help you make "beans and weenies" using a can of pork and beans and several hot dogs. The children can easily cut the hot dogs into SMALL pieces using a plastic knife. (I always quarter the hot dogs lengthwise before I allow them to cut them---makes for smaller pieces) Place them into an electric skillet to warm. While they are warming, I have the children find a "rock" to place by the campfire to sit on (large cardboard blocks work well). We then talk about the pioneers and "cowboys" as we wait. When the food is warm, serve in small cups with a spoon. In seven years, I have had only one child refuse to try the beans and weenies, and almost every child gobbles them up and asks for more!
7-15-00Food Experience: Trail Mix First explain to the children that while the cow hands were on the trail taking care of the cattle they would often get hungry for a snack. So, they carried snacks in their saddle bags. (Explain what a saddle bag is) Get enough brown paper bags for every one and have the kids scrunch them up. (These will be their saddle bags) Before handing them write child's name SADDLE BAG Place all ingredients on table (in bowls or on plates which ever is easier) and explain the differences between the ingredients. Have each child choose their own ingredients for their trail mix. Place it in their saddle bags, hold the bag tightly and then shake it to mix it up. (Make sure that when they scrunch their bags that they don't rip them) You can use coconut, peanuts, raisins, sunflower seeds, sliced almonds, dried fruit etc.
Date: 4-5-00We recently had Wild West Week. One day we had beef jerky and root beer. We talked about why cowboys would have needed something dried like jerky out on the open range, and why something like root beer (closest thing to sarsaparilla I could find) was so treasured when they came back home. Some of the kids loved it, some wouldn't touch it, but most all had fun.
Date: 4-5-00Another idea for Western week is to take in biscuit makings and turn snack time into a science experiment. Let the kids help measure and knead the dough. (My kids love all aspects of this tactile learning experience. They measure all the ingredients just so, pound the dough into shape, then cookie cutter it out.) Talk about why biscuits were made so often on the range, about how dry ingredients keep longer and are lighter and easier to carry, and about how they were so much easier to bake over camp fires than loafs of bread.
Date: 3-11-00Here's a snack that we all have enjoyed as a child....sure to be a hit on Country Western Day....Smores....take two graham crackers melt a large marshmallow and add one square of a candy bar...melt for several seconds in the microwave...enjoy!
2-16-00Each child brings a can of Beanee Weenies. Sit around the campfire, eat, and sing!
Date: 1-31-00Horse Snack: Use mini shredded wheat (hay bales) Cheerios (oats) Dried apples (apple treats) Candy corn (corn) Mix a handful of each into a bowl, and serve as a horse trail mix. Use conversation to discuss what horses eat. Candy corn could be substituted with Corn Nuts to provide a more nutritious snack.
Date: 1-27-00A fun western snack is to make a pot of beans. The children can help cut up hotdog circles with plastic knives. A large can of pork and beans can go into a crock pot along with 1 can of kidney beans, 2 T. vinegar, 2 T. mustard, 1 pkg. Lipton onion soup and 1/2 c. water. At home when I make this I add a pound of cooked ground beef instead of hot dogs. (Make sure children have no allergies to any of these things.) I had the children measure the ingredients for me and we called it a science project! At lunch, some of the brave ones tried our western beans in a Styrofoam cup! They had fun making it and some of them really did like it!
Date: 1-19-00Have each of the children bring an ingredient from home to make Trail Mix (Cheerios, Chex, M&M's, etc.) Allow each child to add their ingredient and let them stir up the mix after each addition. My kids enjoyed stirring about as much, if not more, than the eating! Date: 1-15-00You could take pretzel sticks and dip them in mild salsa, or cheese whiz or colored cream cheese to build and eat a little campfire.
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