Tuesday Tots Play with Food Giveaway

Love Edible Arts and Crafts?  Need ideas for Kid's Lunches?  Let your kids Play with their food and have a fun day sharing your work!

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In honor of food, on Friday, we'll give away, "Scars of a Chef" by
Rick Tramonto.


(Which I have yet to review.
It is a grown up book about the realities of becoming a chef.)



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Healthy Zucchini Snacks Mayflower Ship Craft for Thanksgiving

Easy Edible Mayflower Craft for Kids

An Edible Mayflower Boat Ship makes it easy to Play with your Food and Eat your Vegetables, because it is edible art! If you want something sweeter, scroll down for the doughnut Mayflower Ship. Either way, the kids will have making eatable Thanksgiving crafts that are pefect for a party celebration. Enjoy!

Easy Edible Mayflower Boat Craft for Kids.

1. We found this cute Edible Mayflower Boat Craft at Art is Helping the Children.

Mayflower ship you can eat from Art is Helping the Children.

2. Cream Cheese Mayflower Sandwich Boats

Looking for a new way to get your kids to eat vegetables? Try this!  It's pretty self explanatory, we took cucumbers, zucchini, and squash and cut them in half lengthwise. Then, I tried to collect healthy edibles: cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, sliced squash, pretzels, and mini-dip breadsticks. Cheeseballs worked great too- just not healthy! The kids loved using the colored toothpicks to connect pieces for the "sail".  It's like healthy legos!

When done constructing, set out plates of dip, and let everyone deconstruct, dip, and eat. Everyone ate their veggies. They even tried the yellow squash! Food is more fun when you get to play with it. 

3. For an unhealthier version, try this Doughnut Mayflower from PartyPinching.com. It is super easy with only a pretzel and a doughnut required. That sounds yummy!

Doughnut Sailboat for Thanksgiving.

We read these books: "The Littlest Pilgrim" and "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims".  A book about the Mayflower for kids is available but very wordy, "If You Sailed On The Mayflower " by Ann McGovern. You might also like, "On The Mayflower" by Kate Waters for school-age kids.

Recommended Reading:

Bake and Make Amazing Cakes (Kids Can Do It)*

Turkey Treat  

Kid's Squish Book: Slimy, Squishy, Sticky Things to Do That Should Only Be Done When Wearing Your Oldest Clothes*






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Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Recipe Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Recipe

How to Make GRILLED PBJ Sandwiches Recipe

Love your 'P B and J'  Sandwiches? Try this grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich recipe. It's awesome and Easy!  So, why didn't you think of this sooner? Enjoy!

                   How to Make GRILLED PBJ Sandwiches Recipe.

Peanut Butter Brownie Recipe

You will need:

Non-stick Spray or Margarine
Peanut Butter, Creamy works best.
Jelly or Jam
White or Wheat Bread
Empty Stomachs

Place a skillet on the stovetop.

Spray it with non-stick butter spray or melt butter on medium heat.

Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Recipe. 

How to make Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly. The best PB and J ever.

Make a PB and J Sandwich  

like you normally would, but butter both outsides of the bread like you would to make grilled cheese. Place it in the skillet and flip it when bottom is golden brown.

This is great on a cold winter's day! I switched mine up and used cream cheese and strawberry jam for a more grown up (peanut free recipe for kids) version. Yummy!

Recommended Reading:

Peanut Butter Ball Turkeys 

Cooking with the Alphabet (Cooking with Kids Series)*

Healthy Peanut Butter Cars

Cooking Fun: 121 Simple Recipes to Make with Kids*









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*We also use affiliate links, if you make a purchase we get a tiny commission. Kids Creative Chaos participates in the Amazon LLC Associates Program*, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a mean for blogs to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon properties, including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com. We also offer Tapinfluence, Google Adsense, SoFab, and Izea ads here. Thanks so much for helping us keep the lights on! :)

Monkey Treats: Healthy Crunchy Granola Banana and Chocolate Chips on a Stick Recipe

Monkeys' love them! How to make a healthy banana snack for kids.

We found this fun Monkey Treat or Banana on a stick recipe in an old, kid's cookbook from the 1970's, but they used Mayo as the glue and other yucky stuff. We prefer vanilla yogurt and granola for a healthy snack for kids.

Cool Summer Healthy Treat:  
Frozen Banana, Chocolate Chip, and Granola on a stick. 

Fun Monkey Craft Mask for Preschool

Healthy banana on a stick recipe.

To Make this Banana Snack you will need:

bananas, vanilla yogurt or vanilla pudding, 1/4 c. chopped peanuts or 1/4 chocolate pieces or 1/4 crushed graham crackers, spoon, and wooden popsicle sticks. Makes 2.

Bananas make a healthy snack for toddlers.

Peel a banana and cut it in half.  Put a wooden stick in each banana half. With your spoon, spread yogurt or pudding lightly on banana. Roll the banana in a plate of chopped peanuts, chocolate pieces, graham cracker crumbs or all three for extra 'Yum'!  

First Grade Monkey SIGHT WORD Activity

Roll banana in chocolate chips and graham cracker crumbs.

Make sure you read some silly monkey books afterward.


Recommended Reading:

Healthy Snacks For Kids

Picky Mimi- A Fun Book For Picky Eater Kids

Edible Crafts for Children


Some links may include Amazon product placement.

Fun Carrot recipes for Kids: Ever wonder what you can do with carrots? Cute, Edible Carrot Crafts for Preschool Kids

Make carrot cars and cute, edible carrot healthy snack crafts for kids.

Yum! Eating them is always good, but playing with carrots first is fun for preschool kids. So, have fun with these edible art carrot crafts and fun recipes. Enjoy!

Peanut butter and carrot snacks.

I searched the web for carrot snacks and crafts for Easter. Not much out there, go figure. The big carrot pictured is made from an icing baggie. 

To make it: Fill with carrots and tie with a green pipe-cleaner. It makes a great favor for a classroom party. The original one was filled with Cheese Puffs. Fun, orange, good but not so healthy.

Edible Art with Carrots.

Here's an idea: Sneak Carrots in Sloppy Joe Recipe

Vroom! We always encourage playing with your food. Carrot cars are glued together with peanut butter. It is surprisingly good and your kids will love it. Add cracker shapes and Cheez Whiz, or Peanut butter is a great source of protein.

Healthy afterschool snack for preschool

In honor of the month of May in Indy, we made making car crafts at 'The Play Connection' Zoom, zoom! 

Recommended Reading:

If I Built a Car Book for children*

Free Printable Car coloring sheet







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*We also use affiliate links, if you make a purchase we get a tiny commission. Kids Creative Chaos participates in the Amazon LLC Associates Program*, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a mean for blogs to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon properties, including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com. We also offer Tapinfluence, Google Adsense, SoFab, and Izea ads here. Thanks so much for helping us keep the lights on! :)