Last week I showed you how to make a whole month’s worth of school lunches.
Now that the school-aged kids are taken care of, you need something fun for those left with you at home.Many children cry when they see their older brothers and sisters heading off to school, but with these fun ideas, they ll be glad to push the others out the door and on their way.
Nutty Putty
Have you ever seen a dessert you can play with and then eat? Well, Nutty Putty dessert is designed specifically for those who love to play with their food.
3 cups peanut butter
4 cups powdered sugar
3 cups honey
4 cups dried milk powder
Mix ingredients together. Divide into 10 to 15 equal portions. Store extra portions in plastic bags in refrigerator or freezer. This treat can serve as fun dough. With clean hands, children can mold and shape it into animals, flowers and other objects while they eat it.
Painted Toast
Make familiar shapes out of children’s foods. It’s fun, especially when you create interesting foods to look at. Painted toast and sandwich faces will provide entertainment for the eater and will help those children who would rather be playing enjoy the meal.
Use food coloring in milk to paint faces or cartoons on bread. Put one cup milk in a glass. Add a few drops of food coloring and stir. With a clean brush, let children create designs. When they are through creating, toast the bread and serve as part of the sandwich.
Sandwich Faces
• Make open-face sandwiches on bread or English-muffin halves.
• Peanut-butter sandwich with olive eyes, nut nose, tangerine ears and cheese-puff mouth.
• Hamburger patty with pickle ears, catsup nose, cheese tie, pepper eyebrows and olive eyes.
• Sloppy Joe with grated-cheese hair, olive eyes, green pepper mouth and mushroom nose and ears.
