Tomorrow is Leap Day or the 29th of February! When one starts thinking of things that of leap, one might think of frogs. I know I did! A fun leaping frog is the fun element in a leap year snack served in a muffin tin.
This snack is filled not only with a leaping green spinach tortilla frog with olive eyes but, several other wonderful green foods. JDaniel’s favorite green is the actually the color of all the foods that are in this tin.
Before I share the other foods, let me tell you how I made the leaping frog. I printed out a leaping frog coloring page. Then I placed it on top of spinach tortilla. I used a knife to trace the frog coloring page. While I was tracing, the design was cut out of the tortilla.
JDaniel loves green grapes. When I buy red grapes, he wants to know why I would buy those grapes. I happen to like red grapes and they are suppose to be really good for you but, he does’t see their value. My husband loves red grapes as much as I do but, he will eat the green ones too. We tend to have green ones to keep JDaniel happy and eating grapes.
Pickles are also one of his favorite foods. He has been big into finding out which foods are fruits and which are vegetables. Since cucumbers have seeds and foods with seeds are fruits, he asks for pickles when I tell him he needs to have a fruit for dessert. Yes, pickles for dessert. JDaniel is one of kind!
The final green item in this Leap Year snack tin is green veggie straws. These go have gone over big not only with JDaniel. His friend Nathan loves them too. I have to whisk them away after each has had several handfuls or they would eat the whole bag. I don’t think either of them realizes that have vegetable in them. We just call them green straw snacks at my house.
You will find more fun muffin tin meals and snacks on my Food Creations board on Pinterest. Please take a moment to check out them out.
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I like green grapes myself 😉 Love the leaping frog!
Green is so popular!
Where do you find veggie straws? I’ve never seen them before…but my town might be too small.
I buy them at Aldi. I think Earth Fare carries them too.
I love red and green grapes. We are planning some fun for Leap Year. We plan to play leap frog, having a scavenger hunt and eating green food.
Blessings,
Dawn
It sounds like you will be having a wonderful time at your house.
The leaping frog is great!!
Frogs are such fun. I thought it would fit with a leap year theme.
What a cute frog!
Thank you so much!
SO cute! What a great theme.
Thank you! There were so many to choose from for this week.
I’m a red grapes girl, but I sure like the leaping frog!
=)
I think they taste sweeter.
I love the veggie sticks! My kids and hubby eat pickles right out of the jar. I have to buy them at Costco to keep up with them.
My guys would love having the large jar. They both inhale them.
that frog is awesome!
we have big jars of pickles…
question is…
does he eat the dill or bread and butter? broxton loves them both 🙂
He loves bread and butter.
What a cute leap frog tray!
Thank you! I really enjoy making these tins each week.
Wonderful theme…totally forgot about Leap Year! I love the green froggy and love pickles big time!
I think Leap Year snuck up on a lot of us!
You get so creative with your tortillas! I’m so jealous. Love that you celebrated Leap Day. It’s my aunt’s birthday, so we always think it’s extra special when she gets a “real” birthday. 😉
How cool to have such a special birthday date!
We go through a ton of pickles in this house! I have to know, how did you make that frog? Was it a giant cookie cutter? That is the most awesome idea for Leap Day food EVER!!!
I printed out a the outline of a frog, cut out the outline and traced the outline onto a tortilla.
This is so fun! Sounds like he will love Leap Year meals since they are all his favorites!
He ate the whole thing!
Love the frog!
Thank you so much!
That is such a fun meal!! Love the frog.
I like the way he turned out too.
That frog is so cute!
AH! Such a cute idea! I love it! 🙂
Green is the color of life too! I wish I would have thought of this idea when my little one was little! Great for the the nephew though, he loves green anything!
This is such an adorable snack. I am so impressed at how you made the frog. It’s so creative!
I am so please that you like it.