Elizabeth's Home Daycare

The order of the menu below is ... morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack. Let me know if you have suggestions for what the kids are likely to enjoy. Note: all meals and snacks are served with milk.

This week's theme is bugs so we are having at least one bug snack a day. I got all the ideas and recipes from Perpetual Preschool and I have included the recipes below if you want to try them out yourself.

Monday:

Graham crackers, oranges

Waffles with blueberries, yogurt

Celery and Pretzel Butterflies ~ Cut a small piece of celery for the body of the butterfly. Spread some cream cheese or peanut butter inside of the stalk of celery. Add 4 small folded pretzels for the butterfly wings. Add 2 strings of black licorice for the antennas.

Tuesday:

Multi-grain Cheerios (dry), banana

Tuna fish sandwiches, oranges, cheese slices

Ants on a Log ~ Needed: Raisins(ants) or prunes (bugs), celery, peanut butter (make sure no one in your class is allergic). Give each child a piece of celery. Have the children wash and dry their celery. Next, have them spread peanut butter on the celery and put either their ants (raisins) or their bugs (prunes). Eat up!!!

You could also use cream cheese if you have children in your class who are allergic to peanut butter.

Wednesday:

Strawberry muffins, applesauce

Fish sticks, grapes, toast with cream cheese

Edible Spiders  ~ You'll need: round crackers peanut butter mini m&m's Pull-n-Peel Twizzlers (cut into 1 inch pieces) Give each child 2 crackers, peanut butter, 2 m&m's,and a piece of licorice. Have child spread on peanut butter with popsicle stick on one cracker. Pull apart licorice and place eight "legs" on the cracker. Place other cracker on top. Dab two spots of paenut butter on cracker top and stick on m&m's for eyes.

Thursday:

Vegetable crackers, applesauce

Grilled cheese, deli meat, banana

Caterpillars ~ Recipe: Shred 1 leaf of lettuce, spread cream cheese on 4 Ritz crackers. Layer the crackers slightly on top of each other to form the body of the caterpillar, the crackers were placed on top of the lettuce. We then took 2 raisins for eyes and 6-8 chow mien noodles for legs.

The children loved eating their caterpillars as much as they loved making them.

Friday:

Graham crackers, grapes

Chicken nuggets, apples, yogurt

Worms and Dirt ~ Supplies: Gummy worms, Oreo cookies, sandwich bags and paper cups. Place Oreo cookies in a sandwich bag and let the kids crush them. Then dump them into to paper cup and add gummy worms. Then they can eat worms and dirt!