The ABC's of Snacking

Animal (Bear, Dinosaur, Insect, Reptile, Worm, etc.) Dig
Place one or more gummy bear(s), dinosaur(s), insect(s), reptile(s), worm(s), (or whatever you find in the stores) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

From Kathy in my education group:
Make your own gelatin jigglers and then just just cookie cutters of the appropriate shape.  This might work well with the very young ones, or kids on restricted diets.

Ant
Ants in Sand
Place a graham cracker in a bag that zips or that you can twist tie.  Roll a rolling pin over it or have the children crush the cracker into small pieces.  (For younger children, the second option children like more.)  Place some raisins or chocolate chips in the bag.  Eat with a spoon or with your hands.

Make Apple Crisp, Apple Spice Cake, or Cocoa Apple Cake located at Desserts or Dairy-free Desserts.

Applesauce Cinnamon Muffins, Spiced Applesauce Muffins, Cinnamon (Apple) Crepes
Spiced Applesauce Muffins

Apple Boats

Cut an apple into fourths.  Cut out the cores.  Place a wooden toothpick in one side of the apple and then a large marshmallow on it.

Apple Smiles
Peel and core an apple.
Cut it into slices.
Place some caramel or peanut butter on it.
Have the children decorate it using raisins, chocolate chips, gum drops, etc. to make a happy apple.

Apple Volcanoes

Ingredients:
Apple
Peanut butter/other type of nut butter, or caramel
Raisins, chocolate chips or other type of chip
Knife
Teaspoon

Cut off the top of the apple. Using spoon, scoop out core of apple.  Fill the apple with butter/other type of nut butter, or caramel and top with raisins, chocolate chips or other type of chip.

If you want to eat this later, brush the apple edges with lemon juice to prevent browning and wrap in foil.

(This is also listed under "V for Volcano" further down on this page.)

Banana
Slice up a banana.
Make banana bread.

Bat
Bat Brew @ lds.org
Bat No-Bake Cookies
Use my No-Bake Chocolate Crispy Cookies (no peanut butter recipe).  Make two tall small triangles for the ears and two bat wings.  If you want, you can use chocolate chips or raisins for the eyes.

Bear
Bear Dig
Place  one or more gummy bear(s) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Rainbow Bear Sugar Cookies, Biscuits, Pretzels, or Toast
Directions:
Use a teddy bear cookie cutter.  For each color, take 1 tablespoon milk (rice/cow's) and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon sugar and mix it.  Place some of the milk mixture in small jars, glasses, small margarine containers, or other containers.  Repeat for the amount of colors you want.  It takes 1 drop to make each color. Take sugar cookie dough, biscuit, or a piece of white bread.  Paint with some of the milk using a pastry brush or small paint brush. Mix the colored milk to make different colors.  Bake the sugar cookies, biscuits, or pretzels according to the directions in this recipe handout.  For the bread, put the bread in the oven or a toaster oven and take it out when it is lightly brown.

Beehive Treats
Make my Ring Marshmallow Balls (using oats cold cereal (or fruit if you want a colorful beehive) and add some raisins or chocolate chips).  Place a large piece of plastic wrap over the cups of a cardboard egg carton.  Place the mixture onto the plastic wrap.  Let cool.  Eat.

Biscuits
Biscuits or Dairy-free Biscuits

Blueberry
Make blueberry muffins.

Spiced Blueberry Muffin or Dairy-free Spiced Blueberry Muffins

Butterfly
Butterfly Sandwich
Make a sandwich.  Cut it into two or four triangles (depending how old the child is or how much money you want to spend if you are a teacher).  Place the pointy ends facing each other.  Add one pretzel for the smaller sized sandwich and two pretzels for the larger sandwich.

Butterfly Biscuit
Use a circle cookie or biscuit cutter.  Use one of these recipes: Biscuits or Dairy-free Biscuits.  Cut it into fourths and place on the pan.  Bake. After it is baked, place a pretzel stick in between them.

Hot Dog Butterfly Biscuit
Use a circle cookie or biscuit cutter.  Use one of these recipes: Biscuits or Dairy-free Biscuits.  Cut it into fourths and place on the pan. Cut a hot dog in half.  Place it in between the butterfly. Bake.

Sugar Cookie Butterfly #1
Sugar Cookies or Dairy-free Sugar Cookies
Use a butterfly cookie cutter and bake according to the directions. When they are cool, frost them.  Decorate how you would like using chocolate chips, colored candy or cereal, etc.

Sugar Cookie Butterfly #2
Follow the Biscuit Butterfly, except use the sugar cookie recipe for the butterfly.  When they are cool, frost them (or place colored sugar sprinkles on the cookie dough).  Decorate how you would like using chocolate chips, colored candy or cereal, etc.

Make a Butterfly Snack.
Butterfly Snack
Source:  LDS_Kids_Recipes

Ingredients:
lettuce leaves
carrot sticks
shredded carrots
pretzel sticks
green grapes
sliced pineapple
raisins
colored coconut

1.  Let kids arrange lettuce leaves on paper plates.
2.  Have them place a carrot stick in the center of the lettuce leaf.  Explain this will be the butterflies body.
3.  Add a grape at the top of the carrot body to make a head.
4.  Stick pretzels in each side of the grape for the antennae.
5.  Help the kids cut pineapple slices in half and place them on each side of the carrot stick for the wings.
6.  They can add raisins, shredded carrots, or colored coconut on the wings for designs.

The kids can make their own butterfly pictures.
Cut butterfly shapes out of construction paper and give each child some colors and let them color the butterfly.

Carrot
Eat small sticks of carrots.

The Cat In The Hat and The Cat In The Hat Comes Back Snacks

Celery
Eat small sticks of celery.

Cheese
Eat small chunks of cheese.

Make Toasted Cheese Sandwich

Place a piece of sliced cheese on a piece of bread.
Toast in a toaster oven on low.
If you do not have a toaster oven, place sandwich in an oven until cheese is melted.

Cherry
Show some cherries to your children.  Talk about where there came from.
Make cherry cheese pie or cherry pie located at Pratt's Dessert Recipes.

Chicken
Eat chicken nuggets, pieces of chicken cut into strips or diced, or eat a chicken sandwich.

Chocolate
Choose any of the recipes that calls for chocolate located at: Desserts or Dairy-free Desserts.
Eat chocolate cereal, chocolate milk, etc.

Christmas
Christmas Tree
Frost a sugar cone with green frosting.  Add colored candy for ornaments.

Cinnamon
Talk about where cinnamon comes from and show them a whole piece of cinnamon.
Make Cinnnamon Raisin Oatmeal or Cinnamon Toast located at Pratt's Children's Recipes: Breakfast 

Citrus
Make grapefruit, orange, or lemon juice.  Make grapefruit or lemon meringue pie.  Eat: a grapefruit or an orange.

Clouds
Pop some popcorn.  Look at them while they pop.  Science: Do they look like fluffy white clouds?

Coconut
Make Ranger (Cowboy Cookies).
Eat coconut.

Cookie
Make cookies located at: desserts or dairy-free desserts.

Corn
Eat corn or  corn of the cob.

Donut
Make or buy donuts or donut holes.  Eat them.

Dinosaur
Dinosaur Dig: Place one (or more) gummy dinosaur(s) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Egg
Eat an egg (scrambled, hard boiled, pouched, etc.).

Egg Sandwich
Hard boil some eggs.  Peel the eggs and rinse.  Spread some mayonnaise or salad dressing onto a half piece of bread.  Cut up the egg and place onto the bread.  Sprinkle with salt (if desired).  Top with the other half slice of bread.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Make scrambled eggs and add some diced ham to it.  Add some green food coloring to it as you cook it.

Marbleized Easter Eggs
Copyright 2002 Barbara Pratt.  All rights reserved.

In a cup, add 1/2 cup boiling water, about 8 drops of food coloring, 1 tablespoon cooking oil, and 1 teaspoon white vinegar.  Mix with a spoon.  Add hard boiled egg to each color.  Remove in about 3
minutes for lighter color (or longer for a darker color).  Place in another color (if desired) and let it sit in the color until you reach the desired color.  Dry off with a paper towel.  Let dry on a wire
cooling rack.

Sailboat Eggs
Option #1: Hard boil some eggs.  Peel the eggs and rinse.  Cut it in half.  Place a toothpick into each half egg.  Place raisins, marshmallows, etc. on the toothpick.

Option #2: 
Hard boil some eggs.  Peel the eggs and rinse.  Cut it in half.  Remove the yolk from both sides of the egg with a spoon.  For each egg, mix with about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoon mayonnaise or salad dressing, 1/8 teaspoon mustard (about one squeeze), and 1/4 teaspoon (about 2 sqeezes) ketchup in a small bowl. Place a toothpick into each half egg.  Place raisins, marshmallows, etc. on the toothpick.

Note: This is messy but it is good.

Science Activity: Talk about where eggs come from (chickens, etc.).

Face
Make .

Face/Feelings
Make Face/Feeling Sandwiches.

#1 Version
Take a piece of bread, put some salad dressing (for sandwiches) on it. Put a slice or so of lunch meat on it.  Spread some Cheese Whiz or cheese in a can over the meat.  Have the children decorate their sandwich how they would like with raisins, olives, pickles, shredded carrots, or whatever else.

#2 Version

Take a piece of bread and place some tuna fish, chicken, turkey, or ham mixed with salad dressing (for sandwiches).  Spread it on the bread.  Have the children decorate their sandwich how they would like with raisins, olives, pickles, shredded carrots, or whatever else.

Cookies:
Decorate round Sugar Cookies or Dairy-free Sugar Cookies or you can purchase them.  Have the children frost the cookies with frosting of you choice. Have them decorate their own smiley face cookies or whatever feeling face they want by using raisins, chocolate chips, string licorice, gum drops, etc.  Another option is to make Cinnamon Vanilla Cookies.  Use two raisins, etc. for the eyes, one for the nose, and four for the mouth.

Use the lesson plan found at
I Have Many Feelings for the Feeling Sandwiches or Smile Cookies for preschool through early elementary.

Fish
Eat tuna fish sandwiches, fish sticks, or gold fish.  Talk about different types of fish and where they live.  Go to a pet store or aquarium and show the children different fish.

Rainbow Fish Sugar Cookies, Biscuits, Pretzels, or Toast
To make fish, use a circle cookie cutter and stretch it a little bit. cut a triangle for the tail.  Put some water on the bottom of the tirangle so it will stay together after it is cooked.
For each color, take 1 tablespoon milk (rice/cow's) and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon sugar and mix it.  Place some of the milk mixture in small jars, glasses, small margarine containers, or other containers.  Repeat for the amount of colors you want.  It takes 1 drop to make each color. Take sugar cookie dough, biscuit, or a piece of white bread.
Paint with some of the milk using a pastry brush or small paint brush. Mix the colored milk to make different colors.  Bake the sugar cookies, biscuits, or pretzels according to the directions in this recipe handout.  For the bread, put the bread in the oven or a toaster oven and take it out when it is lightly brown.

Fruit
Talk about different kinds of fruit and where and how they grow.  Have the children eat different types of fruit.

Fudge
Nutless Fudge or Dairy-free Nutless Fudge

Grapes
Eat grapes.

Gingerbread
Make gingerbread men, or gingerbread cake, or make or buy gingersnap cookies.  Talk about where ginger comes from, if you can obtain a whole piece of ginger root, show them it.

Ham
Talk about where ham comes from.

Give a piece of ham to the children or give them a ham sandwich.

Head
Pizza Heads

Use this to help children to identify parts of a face and recognize that no one is the same (everyone is different).

Cut a piece of bread with a large circle cookie cutter. On a one side of a piece of bread, spread ketchup, spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce on it. Sprinkle one color of shredded cheese on the bread. Use ground beef, ham, turkey for the nose, ears, or eyes.  You can also use pepperoni for the eyes.  You can use pineapple for the teeth and cheese (or pieces of safe snack crackers if your diet is dairy-free) for the hair.  Toast it in a toaster oven until the cheese is melted or until it is warm.

or

Refrigerator biscuits (larger ones)
or go to Biscuits or Dairy-free Biscuits.

Flatten biscuit for each child and help them spread ketchup, spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce on it.  Follow the directions as stated above.  Cook until it is done.

Ice Cream
Eat ice cream.

Inchworm
Wormy Chocolate Pudding Take chocolate pudding (this will resemble dirt), and place gummy worms in the pudding.  Eat.

Worm Dig
Place one or more gummy worm(s) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Insect & Bug Theme Units: Inch Worm

Insect
Insect Dig: Place one or more gummy insect(s) into a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Juice
Drink juice.

Frozen Juice on a Stick
Place some juice into ice cube trays or small paper cups.  Place a wooden craft stick into the juice.  Place tin foil over the try or cups.  Tighten around the sides. Freeze.  Remove from ice trays or tear the paper cup off the frozen juice.

Kite

Graham Cracker Kite
Frost half of a graham cracker.  Rotate (turn) your graham cracker to look like a diamond.  Place some red string licorice at the tip of diamond.  Decorate your kite using colored sugar, sprinkles, raisins, chocolate chips, etc.

Kite Toast
Directions:
For each color, take 1 tablespoon milk (rice, soy, or cow's) and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon sugar and mix it.  This makes quite a few pieces of toast.
If you want to make lots of colors to practice making colors or if if you have more children or students, you will need to make more.

Cut the bread to be a shape of a kite.  Place some of the milk mixture in small jars, glasses, small margarine containers, or other containers. Paint the bread using different colors.  Put the bread in the oven or a toaster oven.  Take it out when it is lightly brown.

Kuchen
Eat kuchen.

Milk
Give the children a small glass of milk.

Make milk shakes.

Monsters
Books: Where The Wild Things Are

Moon

Mouse
Books: Mouse Paint, If You Give A Mouse a Cookie

Muffin
Books: If You Give A Moose a Muffin

Necklace
Place colored cold cereal onto a long piece of yarn (If desired, make a pattern).

Nectarine
Eat a nectarine.

No-Bake Cookies
No-Bake Nutless Chocolate Crispy Cookies

Nocturnal
See Bat.

Noodle
Eat noodles.

Octopus
Idea from: LetteroftheWeek Group

Octopus Hotdogs!
This is kind of hard for preschoolers to do on their own but with a little help and guidance, they can do it...especially the first few cuts...

Give your child a plastic knife and show her/him how to slice through the hot dog starting at one end and stoping about an inch and a half from the other end...it will look kind of like one of those old time clothes pins when you spread the two pieces apart.  Cut each of those pieces into two by making another slice the same way making sure you always stop before getting to the other end.  Cut those four into eight and you now have the legs of the octopus.  The inch and a half that was not cut is the head and you can make a couple of slits in the hot dog to represent eyes and another to make a smile.  Boil the hot dog in water until the legs curl and the smile opens a bit.  This octopus will sit up on a plate and smile!

Olive
Eat black or green olives.

Orange
Give the children a piece or whole orange.

Pineapple
Buy a pineapple, cut it up, and give the children some pineapple.
Buy a can of pineapple and give the children some pineapple.

Activity: Talk about where pineapple grows, how it grows, what he needs to grow, etc.

Pineapple Bread

Sun Salad
Place a spoonful of vanilla or lemon pudding or lemon or pineapple gelatin on a plate. To make sun rays, add pineapple (about 8) around the pudding or gelatin.

Pizza
Give the children a piece of pizza.

Popcorn
Have students feel and look at unpopped kernels.
Pop the popcorn - Have the students watch, smell and listen as you pop the popcorn.
As your children watch the popcorn being popped, sing the song Popcorn Popping (page 242, LDS Children's Songbook).
Talk about how popcorn looks like blossums on blooming apricot trees.  (You can talk about other trees and show pictures of various blooming fruit trees.)
Give a cupful of warm popcorn to each student to feel and taste.

Pudding on a Stick
Place some pudding into ice cube trays or small paper cups.  Place a wooden craft stick into the pudding.  Freeze.  Remove from ice trays or tear the paper cup off.  Eat.

Quick Bread
Make a quick bread using my Bread Recipes or Dairy-free Bread Recipes.  These include: biscuits, cinnamon crepes, fruit breads, muffins, pancakes, and sopaipillas.

Rainbow
Rainbow Theme

Raisins
Give the children some raisins in a cup.  Talk about where it came from and how they became raisins.

Reptile
Reptile Dig: Place one or more gummy reptile(s) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Rice
Eat rice.

Rice Pudding on the Stove, Dairy-free Rice Pudding on the Stove, Allergy Free Rice Pudding on the Stove

Rock
Use the edible rock recipes and lessons located at Rock Classification.

Rolls

Sailboat Eggs
Option #1: Hard boil some eggs.  Peel the eggs and rinse.  Cut it in half.  Place a toothpick into each half egg.  Place raisins, marshmallows, etc. on the toothpick.

Option #2: 
Hard boil some eggs.  Peel the eggs and rinse.  Cut it in half.  Remove the yolk from both sides of the egg with a spoon.  For each egg, mix with about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoon mayonnaise or salad dressing, 1/8 teaspoon mustard (about one squeeze), and 1/4 teaspoon (about 2 sqeezes) ketchup in a small bowl. Place a toothpick into each half egg.  Place raisins, marshmallows, etc. on the toothpick.

Note: This is messy but it is good.

Salami
Eat salami.

Sausage
Eat sausage.

Use the lesson plan found at How Many Apple Seeds?.

Decorate apple shaped sugar cookies.
See below.
Use red food coloring; you can also use green and yellow if you would like.
Have the children put raisins on top for how many seeds each child had in their apple.

Spaghetti
Eat spaghetti or spaghetti noodles.

Star
Make star Sugar Cookies or Dairy-free Sugar Cookies.
Also: Make Star Cookies (and Facts about Stars) @ NASA You can use my sugar cookie recipe if you like.

Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies or Dairy-free Sugar Cookies

Sun
Sun Salad
Place a spoonful of vanilla or lemon pudding or lemon or pineapple gelatin on a plate. To make sun rays, add pineapple (about 8) around the pudding or gelatin.

Sun Sugar Cookies
Make circle sugar cookies or dairy-free sugar cookies.  Decorate them using yellow frosting.

Sunflower
Give the children a small cup full of sunflower seeds.  Talk about where they came from and what you need to help the flower grow.

Triangle
Math & Reading Activity:  Read the book The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns.  Make a sandwich.  Talk about how it can be divided up in different ways.  Cut it up how the children tell you it can be divided.  Give the children a triangle-shaped piece.

U

Activities: Talk about how watermelons grow and what they need to grow.  Count how many seeds are in their piece.  Glue the seeds onto a piece of paper that looks like a watermelon.

Worm
Wormy Chocolate Pudding Take chocolate pudding (this will resemble dirt), and place gummy worms in the pudding.  Eat.

Worm Dig
Place one or more gummy worm(s) in a cup.  Add rocks or dirt (chocolate cereal or pudding) to it.  Eat with a spoon.

Make Dirt Cups: Kraftfoods.com.

Insect & Bug Theme Units: Inch Worm

Yogurt
Frozen Yogurt
Place some yogurt into ice cube trays or small paper cups.  Place a wooden craft stick into the yogurt.  Freeze.  Remove from ice trays or tear the paper cup off.  Eat.

Brown Sugar Soy Yogurt

Put some yogurt in a cup (you can add cereal, and fruit to it too).
Dessert Soy Yogurt

If your diet isn't dairy-free, you can use regular plain yogurt for these above recipes.