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Eclipse Snack Ideas and Printable Snack Bag Tag

August 20, 2017 By Deirdre

Whether you are celebrating an eclipse event or studying about eclipses with your children, these eclipse snack ideas would be fun to serve. Each of the eclipse snack ideas has a space theme!

We are going to an eclipse event at a local science center and I wanted some fun eclipse snack items to share with my family in a snack bag. You could easily place your eclipse snack idea items in a basket or bowls for your family or guests to have if you are at home. You would also be able to serve some fun eclipse-themed drinks. I have listed some eclipse snack ideas and drink ideas below.

Bonus: An eclipse code and color page set has been added to my blog. You can click on this link to get it for free.

Eclipse Snack Ideas

You will notice that the items pictured in the snack bag are not very healthy. You will probably want to add some other ideas to your bags like Sunmaid Raisins to balance out all the sugar in it.

Contents of the Snack Bag

Vanilla Moon Pies
Chocolate Moon Pies
Eclipse Gum (If you can find sticks of gum, you could put in a single piece.)
Starburst Candies
Milky Way Candies

Addition Eclipse Snack Ideas

Snack Bag Tags

I have created a printable snack bag tag that you can attach to a plastic bag via glue. You could also punch a hole in the bag and one in the tag. The tag could then be attached to the bag with a yellow or black ribbon.

Here is the printable for the tags Eclipse Snack Pack Printable Tags.

Building Background

If your children don’t know a lot about eclipses, you may want to read a book and share facts about them.

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Total Solar Eclipse: A Stellar Friendship looks at how the moon helps the sunshine differently during an eclipse.

Eclipse: How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Proved Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity looks at the science behind an eclipse.

The Sun Plays with the Moon looks at lunar and solar eclipses.

More Eclipse Ideas for Kids

Bear Snack Recipe for Kids to Make

November 10, 2016 By Deirdre

Before or after reading a wonderful bear themed book like Bear Gives Thanks you will want have your kids make this yummy bear snack. This bear snack features food bears love to eat and food that resemble objects from bear books.

Bear Snack

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Ingredients

1 cup dried berries (Bears like the one in Blueberries for Sal love berries.)
This berry mixture contains blueberries and cherries.
1 cup granola (Porridge like the Goldilocks and the Three Bears enjoy at is made with grain.)
We used store bought, but homemade granola would be great to use.
1 cup goldfish (Bears like in The Berenstain Bears: Gone Fishin’ love fish)
We used Cheddar fish shaped crackers. You could use any flavor you like.
1 cup of Chex™ cereal (Bears like the bear in Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! need to find pillow and place to sleep.)
You can use any flavor of cereal you like. We used the corn flavored cereal in ours.

Directions for Mixing the Snack

You will want to explain to your children why each of the ingredients in included in the mix. Then you will want to add one ingredient at a time to a mixing bowl. After adding all the ingredients, you can have your children mix the ingredients together. Your children can each take a turn at stirring t or a small group of children to stir the bear snack mix together.

If you think they will have trouble blending all the ingredients, you can have them used salad tongs to toss and mix them together.

When you have the ingredients thoroughly mix, you can serve the mix on a napkin or in a cup wrapped in a bear snack cup wrapper.

If you like this bear snack idea, here are some other ways to explore bear books.

Counting on Bear Claws Math Activity

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Algorithm Activity

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Paper Plate Mask

Paddington Bear Paper Plate Craft

8 St.Patrick’s Day Snacks and Lunches

March 11, 2013 By Deirdre

I thought I would share with you several of the St. Patrick’s Day snacks and lunches I have created. Half of them are from posts I wrote for this blog and the other half are from posts I wrote for other blogs. I hope you will take a moment and explore the posts that they were originally shared on.

Here are the St. Patrick’s Day Snack’s and Lunches

>The leprechaun face in vegetables is from a post I wrote for the Iowa Farmer’s Wife called Getting Children to Eat New Foods: St. Patrick Loves Veggies.

The colored pepper rainbow over homemade spinach hummus is from post I wrote for Kid’s Activities Blog called Crafting a Healthy St. Patrick’s Day Snack.

JDaniel recently had a special St. Patrick’s Day lunch with a spinach pizza served in a bento box. He loved it! I think you will too.

St. Patrick’s Day Cinnamon Rolls is a post I wrote for Kid’s Activities blog. It will featured tomorrow on their blog. They are simple to make and yummy to eat.

JDaniel loved this fruit and yogurt parfait. It was super easy to make and he said it was delicious.

Last year I shared how to make Simple Irish Soda Bread on No Time for Flashcards.

We had a St. Patrick’s muffin tin a couple of years ago that featured a leprechaun turkey burger. The post was called St. Patrick Needs Fruit.

JDaniel had an Irish Symbols Snack for Muffin Tin Monday. It featured the symbols from the Claddagh ring. They stand for love, loyalty and friendship.

You will find more St. Patrick’s Day lunches and snacks on my Food Creations board on Pinterest. Please take a moment to check them out.

What will you have having for lunch or a snack on St. Patrick’s Day?

Kids Lunch – Who was Martin Luther King ?

January 20, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel had no idea who Martin Luther King was until we checked out some books from the library. I loved getting to share that he was a man of peace that wanted all people to be known not by what they looked like, but by who they were. I think all kids should be able to answer the question “Who was Martin Luther King ?”

Kids Lunch - Who was Martin Luther King ?

It was too easy I told him after reading the books to look at someone and judge who they were by what they wore or the color of their skin or their bodily imperfections. Who was Martin Luther King? He was a man that wanted us to look deep inside people and get to know them for who they were.

During his time I told him, people were really mean to people they didn’t know just because they judge them base on color. JDaniel was surprised. He hasn’t been around people that say the horrible things that can be said about others yet. I hope that he will look back at who Martin Luther King was and try to be like him.

Making a Who was Martin Luther King? Lunch

I made a lunch and a snack with a peace theme to represent the peace that Martin Luther King talked about. The lunch above featured a slice of bread with a tan dove place in white bread. It also includes turkey and cheese doves that can be placed on the sandwich or eaten separately. Finally, I placed a rainbow fruit salad in the upper left-hand corners compartment to represent the fact that our world is made of a people that are a rainbow of colors.

The outside of the bread from the dove in the lunch and the inside of the bread from the outside of the dove lunch were placed together to create this snack plate. It has a fruit rainbow underneath the dove. JDaniel inhaled the fruit and the brown sandwich thin. The Italian bread dove he told me tasted like play dough. Ironically he ate the Italian bread and left the sandwich thin behind.

If you like this Who was Martin Luther King? bento, you may also like the following Bento lunches:

Cracker Sandwiches Bento

Preschool Graduation Bento

Butterfly Bento Snack

How are you teaching your children who Martin Luther King was?

The Gingerbread Man Loose in School- Read.Explore.Learn

August 31, 2012 By Deirdre

Today is one of my two places at once days. The amazing Shell of Things I Can’t Say invited me to come and share something that is on my heart on Her blog. To say that I was thrilled to be asked doesn’t full explain how I felt.

Shell is a big blogger with her feet on the ground. Her blog posts are filled with heart, humor, and love. While I was just content to be a her friend, I am over the moon about sharing my words in her world.

If you get a chance, please stop by and read them.

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This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book called The Gingerbread Man Loose in School by Laura Murray.

The Gingerbread Man Loose in School- Read.Explore.Learn

This wonderful tale of the gingerbread man searching his school for his class is such fun. He wanders the hall looking for them and gets to meet various school employees and see where they work. The school nurse, coach, principal, and art teacher are all visited.

Finally the gingerbread man finds them and finds that they were look for him.

This books is presented in a comic book style. There are multiple areas of text and illustrations on the page. JDaniel didn’t have trouble following this story though.

What did we do with the book The Gingerbread Man Loose in School?

Gingerbread Man Snack

A gingerbread man cookie cutter filled with bran cereal and a few items to decorate him with was JDaniel’s afternoon snack on his first day of school.

The raisins taken out of the bran cereal, a few candy corns, and a couple grapes were the decoration options.

JDaniel loved each and every item in this snack. He did not feel like creating a gingerbread man with the decorations though. He did inhaled all of the food. A few stray bran flakes were left on the floor, but that is all.

Reviewing Body Sections Game

JDaniel and I sat down to review four sections of the body using word/picture cards, a sandpaper gingerbread man, and some items to decorate with with.

I sounded out the words on each card after he told me what body part was pictured. When we had reviewed each card a few times and he had found that section on his body, he had decorated that section.

Here are some of my favorite Posts from last week’s Read.Explore. Learn. link up: