Need:
raisins
peanut butter
celery

 Children can wash the celery that has been cut into 3-4 inch pieces.  Spread peanut butter down the hollow center of the celery.  Add the raisins to resemble ants marching down the log.  While preparing the snack, you might teach the song-The Ants Go Marching One by One.
 
 
 

Need:
wheat bread
peanut butter
few raisins
one cherry
2" round cookie cutter
1" round cookie cutter

Children can use the cookie cutter to cut 2 small circles and 1 large circle from a piece of wheat bread.
Arrange the circles to make a face and 2 ears. 
Spread with peanut butter. 
Use 2 raisins for eyes, 3 raisins for a mouth and 2 cherry for a nose.   Gr-r-r-r-r-r !!!
 
 

 

Need:
1 orange slice
1 cherry half
3 banana slices
2 raisins

Children can arrange the orange slice on a plate for the bear's  head.
Place two bananas for the bear's ears and one for the bear's snout.
Add the cherry for the bear's nose.
Use the raisins for the bear's eyes.

While eating, you could have the children chant
"Munch-a, munch-a, munch-a, munch-a,
A big healthy bunch-a !"
 
 

 

Need:
vanilla instant pudding (serving size)
buttermilk baking mix
oil
egg
peanut butter candies, chocolate chips or M&Ms.
Mix together in a bowl:

Dry mix of pudding 
 1 cup buttermilk baking mix
 1/4 cup oil
 1 egg
Children can take a small spoonful of dough and shape into a 1/2 inch ball.  Place ball on ungreased cookie sheet.
Press thumb into the middle of each ball and fill with 3 peanut butter candies, chocolate chips or M&Ms.
( You might want to vary the number of eggs in each nest and ask the children to count them.)
Bake at 350 degrees for 5-8 minutes.  Makes 36. 
 
 

 

Need:
1 package of chocolate cookies
chocolate instant pudding (serving size)
2 cups of milk
Cool Whip (8 ounce size)
zip-lock bags

Children can crush several chocolate cookies in a zip-lock bag.
Mix chocolate pudding with 2 cups of milk according to the box directions.  Stir in all of the Cool Whip.
Place 1 tablespoon of crushed cookies into a cup.  Fill cup with 3/4 cup of pudding. Top with another 1 tablespoon of cookies.  (The children might like to hunt for "buried treasure" if you hide marshmallows, M&Ms or some other small candy.)  Refrigerate.
Serves 8-10.
 
 

 

Need:
yellow cake mix
yellow food coloring
yellow frosting
coconut
few chocolate chips
few candy corns

Adult should prepare  cupcakes for the duck's head using a yellow cake mix.
For the duck's face, the children can hlp to add a few drops of yellow food coloring to coconut and set aside.  Spread each cupcake with yellow frosting.  Sprinkle with yellow coconut.  Add two chocolate chips for eyes and a candy corn for the beak.   Watch everyone go QUACKERS for their treat.
 
 
 

Need:
a roll of Pillsbury cookie dough found in the dairy section of the supermarket
a few raisins or M & M's
 

Adult should pre-cut the dough into 1/4" slices.
With a plactic knife, the children can cut a small wedge in the circle for the fish's mouth and attach the wedge to the circle to make the fish's tail.
Add a raisin or M & M for the fish's eye.
Bake according to the package directions.  While waiting for the cookies to bake, teach the children this tune sung to 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Indians

1 little, 2 little, 3 little fishes
4 little, 5 little, 6 little fishes
7 little, 8 little, 9 little fishes
10 little fishes in the pond. 
 
 
 

Need:
graham crackers
softened cream cheese

apple butter or "squeezeable" grape jelly
small sandwich bag

Children can spread the cream cheese on the graham cracker. 
Adult should put 2-3 Tablespoons of apple butter in a sandwich bag and snip the bottom corner of the bag with scissors.  Children can squeeze the apple butter through the hole and design a HAPPY FACE, or practice some shapes and letters on the cream cheese.
 
 
 

Need:
12-oz. package of butterscotch chips
12 oz. Jar of peanut butter
9 oz. can of chow mein noodles
waxed paper

The adult should pre-melt the butterscotch chips in a saucepan over medium heat.
When the chips have melted, add the peanut butter and remove from the heat.  Stir well.
Pour in the chow mein noodles.  Mix thoroughly.
The children can drop the mixture by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.  These will form "haystacks".  Let the haystacks harden for about one hour.  (Makes 3 to 4 dozen haystacks.)

These cookies are very sweet but just right for your class of  "sweeties".
 
 
 

Need:
white bread
red jam or jelly
heart-shaped cookie cutter
 

The children can cut a heart-shape by hand or with a cookie cutter in a slice of white bread.  Cut a second heart shape from another slice of bread.  Spread with jam or jelly to make a sandwich. 

(Great for Valentine's Day or when you want to make the class feel special.)
 
 

 

Need:
vanilla cookies
can of vanilla frosting
red food coloring
tube of pre-mixed black or other dark color frosting gel
chocolate chips

Mix red food coloring with a can of vanilla frosting.
Children can frost a vanilla cookie with the red frosting.  Draw a  T  on the frosting with a tube of  pre-mixed frosting for the head and back areas of the ladybug.
Add two dots for eyes with the tube of frosting and chocolate chips for the spots on the ladybug's back.
 
 

 

Need:
large marshmallows
vanilla frosting
candy corns
candy for "eyes"

Using a marshmallow, children can attach candy with frosting for eyes and mouth.  ( These are a cute treat to make in the Spring !!!)
 
 
 

4 tubes refrigerator bread
1 cup of sugar
1 Tablespoon of cinnamon
1 stick of margarine
plastic bag

Grease a tube or bundt pan and set aside.
Children can cut each biscuit into quarters using a plastic knife.  They can, then, shake biscuit pieces with mixture of cinnamon and sugar in a plastic bag.  Place biscuit pieces in the pan. 
Combine the remaining cinnamon sugar mix with margarine in a saucepan.  Adult should bring it to a boil and pour over biscuits.
Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.  Let stand 5 minutes before removing from pan.  (Once this bread cools, it will disappear like "monkey magic".)
 
 

 

Need:
6 cups of popcorn
peanut butter
margarine
 

Pop 6 cups of popcorn.  (You might want to ask the children to close their eyes to listen and smell while the popcorn is popping.)
Adult should melt 1/2 cup of peanut butter with 1/2 cup of margarine in saucepan over low heat.
Drizzle over the popcorn.    Serves 6
 
 
 

Need:
2 vanilla wafers as the "bread"
1 chocolate cookie as the "hamburger"
vanilla frosting mixed with: 
red food coloring for the "ketchup", green food coloring for the "relish", yellow food coloring for the "mustard"

Children can assemble the "sandwich"  with the chocolate cookie and assorted frostings.  Top with a second vanilla wafer. This snack will be a huge SMASH !!!!
 
 

 

Need:
Chocolate syrup
Vanilla ice-cream
milk

In a blender, mix chocolate syrup, vanilla ice-cream and milk for 30 seconds.  Pour into a cup and enjoy.  (One verse of "Old McDonald Had a Cow"  is a favorite song which can be sung while waiting for the blender.)
 
 

 

6 cups of crispy rice cereal
stick of margarine
10 ounce bag of marshmallows
powdered sugar

Adult should melt the margarine in a saucepan and stir in the marshmallows until smooth.  Stir in the Rice Krispies.  After the mixture has cooled slightly, children can put  a little margarine on their hands and form balls with the mixture.  Shake the balls in a zip-lock bag to coat with the confectioner's sugar.  Makes approximately 24  two-inch "snowballs".  The children will have a "ball".