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Olympics for Kids- A Gold Medal Lunch for Kids

July 30, 2012 By Deirdre

It feel like I haven’t done a muffin tin lunch in ages. After creating Olympic related meals and snacks in the past few weeks, it was time for one a muffin tin. If you like this lunch idea, please take a few minutes to visit some of my other Olympic food creations. There was an Olympic symbols bento and fruit filled snack Olympic rings.

Gold Medal Meal

All in all this is a gold medal meal. It is filled with lots of healthy things and a few treats. The top row has carrots, cheese popcorn in a cone, and cherries. Just below you will find pizza that we added black olives to, a vanilla wafer cookie with a healthy fruit strip ribbon and more pizza.

Hint: You could use broken pieces of cheese cover rice cakes or a small pile of goldfish instead of popcorn. Although stacking fish might be tricky in the long fun popcorn is easier to pile up.

Olympic athletes need to have a little sugar and some carbs to give them energy to compete. The ingredients in this meal would given them sugar and carbs as well as fruits and veggies. I am not saying that they would make the same choices I did when creating this gold medal meal. Maybe I am just trying to make myself feel less guilty. The ingredients were added to this meal to make it feel cute.

Warning: If you try to recreate the torch like effect in a cone with cheese popcorn, place each kernel carefully. One false move could cause the whole thing to fall over! Then you will have to start it all over again.

If you like this gold medal, here are some more Olympic related ideas for kids:

Painted Olympic Torch

Kids Printable Olympic Passport

Winter Olympic Themed Graphs and Diagrams

Exploring the Olympic Value of Friendship

Exploring the Olympic Value of Respect

Exploring the Olympic Value of Excellence Citizenship

Olympics for Kids- A Fun Book and a Bento Lunch

July 27, 2012 By Deirdre

I like to welcome the Olympic Bento Bloggers and Olympic Hoppers to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book of poems on the Olympics along with an Olympic-related bento snack. I decided to join an Olympic Hop hosted by a group of Bento bloggers and tie the book I am sharing with a snack I made for JDaniel.

The book we looked at this week is called Elympics. It was a wonderful book of poems that talks about various summer and winter events in the Olympics. The poems were really fun to read and are filled with rhymes. JDaniel was able to learn about several of the events that he may see during the Olympics through the poem and really fun illustrations in this book.

I tried several times to make an elephant like the one on the cover of this book, but I wasn’t able to. An elephant cookie cutter proved to work out so much better than the elephants I tried to create a free hand.

This elephant is made of pita bread and he is carrying a slice of an ice cream cone with cheese flavored rice cakes as a torch. In the upper left-hand corner of the Bento box are fresh spinach leaves with a carrot and fruit chew medal. The bottom left-hand corner of the box contains hummus with the Olympic rings made of black olives.

I went with a greek food theme for part of the box to represent the fact that the Olympic started in Greece. Thankfully JDaniel loved everything in this snack Bento.

Olympics for Kids – Bento Lunch

The Olympics have been featured in a few other posts this summer. There have been posts on an Olympic Symbols Bento Snack and Fruit Filled Olympic Rings as a breakfast meal. I have a fourth meal coming on Monday. It is a gold medal meal featuring healthy foods and a couple of Olympic-related foods.

If you are here from the Olympic Hog, please visit Biting the Hand that Feeds You. They are the next stop on the hop.
If you are here for Read.Explore.Learn., please leave your book related link below.

If you are just stopping by because you are here to make my day, thank you for stopping by. I hope you will leave me a comment. It would be wonderful if you checked out the Olympic Bento Hop and the Read. Explore.Learn. links below.

Olympics for Kids: Olympic Torch Painting Projects

July 21, 2012 By Deirdre

We have been exploring the symbols of the Olympics at our house this week.We started with the Fruit Filled Olympic Ring last Monday. Then we moved on the Olympic Torch. We did two painting project using the Olympic torch.

The first paint project involved using flame shaped sponges to create different colored flickers of flame on orange paper.

I had planned on using red and yellow paint for this project. JDaniel pointed out that flames can burn things and cause them to be black. He though we needed to make black flames too.

I have to confess the idea of using black paint at the beginning didn’t seem like a great idea, but I was wrong the black paint made really pretty flame flickers.

When the paint had dried, I cut flame shapes out of our drawing. We then glued them onto a brown torch made out of a old envelope.Later we glued the torch to black paper. The layering of paint colors contrasts well with the black paper and really add to the flickering effect we were trying to get on the flames.

Olympic Torch Painting Projects for Kids

The second project using a torch like painting tool was more fun to create then the final product would show. I don’t think I used enough paint in the paint and water mixture.

I wrapped a paper towel around a kitchen spoon and then secured the towel to the spoon with twist ties from loaves of bread.

We then dipped the spoon into several different colors of paint mixed with water. Once we had finished dipping the torch like painting tool into the paint, we took the twist ties of and set the paper towel out to dry

The colored paint really only took hold on a few of the edges. The torch should have been dipped in darker colors for a longer period of time for this to really turn out well.We did have fun creating this project. I guess that sometimes it is fun to just enjoy the process of creating art even if the final product turned out differently then you thought it would.

You will find more Olympic Themed activities on my Olympics board on Pinterest

Olympics for Kids- Fruit Filled Olympic Rings

July 16, 2012 By Deirdre

With the Olympics starting in a few weeks I thought it would be fun to create a set of fruit filled Olympic style rings for JDaniel to have for breakfast. Each Olympic ring would feature a different kind of fruit.

JDaniel loves fruit and so I knew he would love these rings. He has gotten more particular about some of the food groups he used to enjoy, but the fruit group has remained wide open.

In fact he helped pick out all of these fruits during a recent grocery store run. I love that he picked ones that fit so well into the colors I needed for the rings. I bet your kids would have fun searching for fruit that matches the colors of each Olympic ring too.

The rings are made up of mini whole grain bagels topped with low fat cream cheese and then the fruit. The fruits we used were blueberries, raisins, red grapes, crushed pineapple, and kiwi. We tried to squeeze as much fruit as we could on each of the bagels. If your children are trying out a new fruit, you may just want to put a little taste of it on a bagel.

A great thing about this breakfast is that it contains fruits, a diary product, and whole grains. I felt good about having him eat the rings as his breakfast meal. It would have been great as a main dish for lunch too.

If you are looking for a fun way to introduce new fruits or even veggies to your children, have them search your fridge for items that match the colors of the Olympic rings. They might find that they really enjoy them.