Wordless Wenesday; Cookie Turkeys!

Recipe: Rice Mice

This recipe's orginal credit goes to familyfun.com. Unfortunetly, their instructions were not percise, and it left you with no idea how much of rice, cream cheese, and yogurt to use.

So we did some playing around. I choose to use string cheese for the tails instead of the chives. I also decided to use fresh sugar snap peas because I thought the kids would like snapping them apart. After cooking the rice and letting it cool, I tried mixing the rice with cream cheese. I used 2-3 tablespoons of fcream cheese, and 1 cup of  rice. I left out the yogurt because i cooked the rice in chicken broth, and didn't have any yogurt..so I figured it would taste good anyway.

Check out some the pictures from the playdate! Enjoy!

Recipe Time: Cinnamon Tortillas

I was first introduced to this concept when I was in elementary school. Another family went on a fishing trip with us, and brought these along. The thing I find so appealing is children can easily make them, building valuable spreading and folding skills later on.  (The picture BTW I had a hard time making the butter and cinnamon sugar show up because the kids didn't get it all out on the edges! LOL. So instead I just stacked them and put sugar and cinnamon on top.

Cinnamon Tortillas

• cinnamon and sugar mixture
• butter or cream cheese
• tortillas
• spreading sticks (popcycle sticks for young children, plastic if they are preschool age)

Allow the kids to spread the butter or cheese on the tortilla. Cinnamon mixture can be put on two different ways: 1. spoon it on and then dump loose sugar on to a cookie tray. 2. use a shaker container

Fold the tortilla onto itself making it a long holdable roll up. Enjoy!

Easy Recipes For Kids: Trail Mix

You might remember when you were a child, how special you felt when you were included in adult activities. One activity that is often considered adult is cooking. Even many kids books offer some adult interaction that requires an adult to put the food in the oven or on the stove top. Personally, I never liked help, so for my recipes that I do with my children, I try to make them with as little adult interaction as possible.

The first recipe that I did with the playgroup went really well. We made trail mix but because my daughter is allergic to peanuts, we choose to use almonds and cashews instead. Here are the possible ingredients you can use for your own!

any type of nut
raisins or craisins
m&ms, Reese's pieces
dried fruit
marshmallows
sunflower seeds
popcorn
gold fish or animal (or other small tough) crackers
cheerios or other cereal
pretzels
gummy candy

Put each individual ingredient into a bowl, and let the children take a small baggie. Let them choose what they would like to put in it with the rule that they need to have 3-5 types (this way they might pick something new!).

Very easy and no parent help to do!