Make Slug-a-bug Grubs with Ollantay and Listening Ears!
You will need:
cream cheese
sprinkles
crumbs (crushed cookies, crackers, or chips)
green food coloring
round pretzels
dates, raisins, or craisins
apple slices
cheese slice
carrot shreds
plastic baggie
toothpick
Put cream cheese in the plastic baggie. Add a drop or two of food coloring (not too much!), seal the baggie, and squish it in your hands until it turns green.
Cut a teeny piece off one corner of the bag. Now squeeze the green cheese over an apple slice.
Attach a round pretzel on the cheesy apple slice for your head. Squeeze a bit of the cheese on the head and attach sprinkles for eyes and antennae. Attach shredded carrot strips for legs.
Cut your slice of cheese into two squares. This is the base for your grasshopper grub. Use the toothpick to make your grasshopper stand up. Yum?
Take a spoonful of cream cheese and add a few chopped dates (or raisins/craisins). Form it into a bug-like shape: round, tube, rectangle; whatever you like . . . be creative!
Press your “bug” into the crumbs, making sure you cover the entire surface of the bug.
Add sprinkles for eyes and mouth. Or use some of the carrots for extra pizzazz!
Be sure you make enough to share with others for a slug-a-bug picnic! Also, remember to send us photos of your creations to phingerplink@gmail.com. Please include an honest review about which you liked better: the slug-a-bug, or the apple grasshopper. Bon appetit!
Make Bunny Bites with Little Ears and Crazy Ears!
You will need:
2 regular marshmallows and 1 mini marshmallow
1 toothpick
2 baby carrots
1 raison
1 small piece of apple with peel
yogurt – your favorite kid
1/4 cup flaked coconut
a spoon
2 plates
Use the toothpick to put the 2 large marshmallows together. Looks like a snowman, doesn’t it? Spread yogurt onto 1 plate and coconut onto the other (see next photo below). Roll your “snowman” in the yogurt, covering it well. Now roll it in the coconut, getting a nice “fur” coat look.
Poke baby carrots in the top marshmallow for ears. Have a grownup cut a small piece of apple for the nose. Place the nose in the center of the marshmallow. Pinch a raisin in half and place the two pieces above the nose for eyes. Finally, attach the mini marshmallow for the tail.
Enjoy your yummy-bunny treat, but don’t forget the toothpick! 😁 Remember to take a picture and send it to us at phingerplink@gmail.com because we can’t wait to see your beautiful and tasty creations!
Make a Beak Treat with Ahanu and No Ears!
You will need:
Small amount of yogurt
butter knife
graham cracker
bowtie-shaped pretzel
2 M&Ms (same or different colors)
1 chocolate chip
1/4 cup of cereal flakes
Spread a small amount of yogurt on the top half of your graham cracker.
Position the pretzel as shown.
Carefully place M&M eyes in the two pretzel openings.
Use another dab of yogurt to hold the chocolate chip beak firmly in place .
Spread more yogurt on the lower half of the graham cracker.
Carefully arrange cereal flakes to look like feathers.
Take a photo before you try your snack (if you can wait that long) and send it to us so we can check out your creativity. What color eyes? What kind of cereal? We want to know!
Make Priceless Porridge with Goldy and Babe E. Bear!
Straight from Babe E. Bear’s 365 Golden Porridge Recipes cookbook!
You will need:
1 can of crushed pineapple with the juice
1 pint of sour cream
1 cup of shredded coconut
1 box of instant vanilla pudding
Dump all the ingredients in a bowl
and stir until well mixed.
Refrigerate to keep it fresh…
if it lasts that long!
Remember, snacks taste best when you share them with a friend. Don’t forget to send us a picture of you and your Priceless Porridge. We know you’re going to love it!
Fishing with Bear Bear … and Wormel!
You will need:
Measuring spoons & mixing spoons
4 small bowls or paper cups
Yellow mustard
Honey
Grape or blueberry jelly
Mini marshmallows
Sour cream
Ranch dressing mix
Cream cheese/string cheese/or cheese slice
Black olive or grapes sliced in rings
Fish-shaped crackers
Make a sunny day lake: In your first cup mix two tablespoons of honey with a ¼ teaspoon of mustard and stir well.
Make a windy day lake: In your second cup place 2 tablespoons of jelly, tear pieces off a marshmallow and scatter them over the top of the jelly to create white cap waves.
Make a frosty lake: In your third cup mix 2 tablespoons of sour cream with a ¼ teaspoon of ranch dressing mix and stir well.
Make a frozen lake: In your last cup place a piece of cheese, top it with black olives or grapes sliced in rings for “holes” in the ice.
Grab five fat fish crackers and start dipping!
Wormel likes the Sunny Lake dip. Bear Bear likes the Frosty Lake dip.
Which is your favorite? Be sure to let us know ! Send a picture or a comment to
Make a floating porcupine for your cocoa with BB!
Ingredients:
1 packet of instant hot cocoa mix
two marshmallows
pretzel sticks
your favorite mug
hot water (be careful! Have a grownup help you!)
Grab a marshallow and stuff it with the pretzel sticks.
Empty your hot cocoa packet into your favorite mug.
Have an adult or older friend carefully fill the mug with hot water.
Stir until the cocoa is well mixed, then drop in your porcupine marshmallow. ENJOY!
Make a super yummy veggie turtle treat with Fisher!
Ingredients:
1/2 pint sour cream
1 dry soup mix packet (ranch, veggie, onion … your choice!)
1 round loaf of bread
assorted veggies: carrots, colorful peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, black olives, etc.
With adult help, cut the top off your bread (save the lid!) and carefully scrape out the inside. (You can crumble the scrapings and put them outside for the birds, or enjoy a little bread snack yourself! Who doesn’t love bread?) Then carefully cut the veggies into bite-sized strips.
Mix sour cream and soup mix together, and spoon it into the hollowed-out bread “bowl.”
Paint the top of the bread lid with olive oil and place it over the dip. Decorate with different veggie shapes to make it look like a turtle shell.
Then arrange veggie pieces around the bowl so it looks like a turtle … sort of.
(Fisher’s cherry tomato head is kind of teeny for this turtle!)
Invite your friends over for a healthy snack to share now, or while watching STICK TOGETHER or any of the other videos!
Fisher says, “The healthier the snack, the sweeter the treat! Bon Appetit!”
We’d love to see how your turtle treat turned out. Please send a photo to phingerplink@gmail.com
Make edible cookie dough with chips and Chip
Ingredients:
¾ cup all-purpose flour (experts suggest cooking the flour on a cookie sheet or pizza pan in a 350-degree oven for 5-7 minutes. Let cool before mixing up the dough.)
1/3 cup melted butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon whole milk 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips
In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, white sugar, and butter. Add the vanilla and milk and mix thoroughly. Stir in the flour and chocolate chips. Form into chipmunk-sized cookie-dough balls and store in fridge in a plastic bag or sealable container
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Chip says, “These are wicked good plain, but really really excellent when mixed into ice cream. Just saying…”
Be sure to let us know how your Chip bites turned out at phingerplink@gmail.com
Make special popcorn with Grannie, Wolf, and Red
For Grannie’s salt-and-pepper popcorn you’ll need some popped corn. With an adult or older sibling’s help, melt the butter and pour it over the popped corn. Then sprinkle with salt and pepper, adjusting the taste to what suits you best.
Enjoy your special salt-and-pepper popcorn, and be sure to share it with your friends.
Grannie’s cinnamon-and-sugar popcorn is one of Wolf’s favorites! Mix 1/4 cup of white sugar with 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon together in a small bowl. Sprinkle it over some fresh buttered popcorn and toss gently to make sure every kernel is covered. Jump in and enjoy!
Okay, when we said “jump in” we didn’t mean to actually jump in!
Share your snack pictures and comments with us at phingerplink@gmail.com. Be sure to tell us your favorite popcorn flavor!
Make an awesome edible opossum tail with Offspring and Papa-O
You will need:
2 slices of bread * White sugar * Food coloring
Butter or margarine softened to room temperature
Plastic Baggies
With the help of an adult, cut off all bread crusts (that’s the Papa O way). Or if you’d like to do it Offpring’s way, gently tear them off with your fingers.
On a table or countertop, flatten each slice of bread with the palm of your hand or a rolling pin. Form it into a tube, then roll it back and forth between your palms until it is round and compact, like an opossum tail.
Put a spoonful of sugar in a plastic baggie. Add one drop of food coloring. Shake the bag and squish it with your fingers on the outside until the sugar is all one color.
Put fresh sugar in a clean bag and choose a different color.
Bend your “tail” at one end to make a hook. Using a plastic knife or spoon, butter up your tail.
Sprinkle your buttered tails with all the colors of the rainbow, or just a few … it’s up to you!
“Bread and sugar tails, what a treat!
Yum, yum, eat ‘em up, can’t be beat!”
Don’t forget to send pictures of your awesome opossum tail treats to phingerplink@gmail.com
Make a flannel channel fish feast with Sew-Sew and Gold Ness!
You will need:
1 cup of your favorite square-shaped cold cereal
1 piece of bread * Nut butter (peanut, almond,cashew)
Your favorite jam or jelly
(Sew Sew likes raspberry jam. Gold Ness prefers crabapple jelly)
With a butter knife, spread nut butter on 10 cereal squares.
Spread jam on 10 cereal squares.
Poke cereal pieces into bread, spread-side down, arranging them in the shape of your own fashion (hat, shirt, socks, mittens…)
Carefully spread nut butter on the top of every other cereal square, alternating with jam to create a plaid pattern.
Share your flannel channel fish feast with a friend! And be sure to send a picture to phingerplink@gmail.com
