School Snack Series - Day 5

On Monday, when we were shopping for snack ingredients at the grocery store, the Tumbleweed decided what she wanted to take for her special birthday snack. No cupcakes for her... she wanted Rainbow Jell-O. I spent yesterday evening boiling water and waiting for Jell-O to set, again & again. It took less than three hours, which was better than I had expected, to make 6 layers.

Rainbow Jell-O

Clear Cups
6 boxes of Jell-O - one each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple
Lots of water

Assembly - Make first layer of Jell-O according to box directions. Wait until it sets. Add next layer. Repeat as needed. *to speed up the process, use ice cubes in the "cold water" part of the box directions.



It also happens to be "R" week at her school, and they have been doing lots of rainbow crafts/papers, so Rainbow Jell-O was quite fitting. The Tumbleweed said the kids loved it :)

School Snack Series - Day 4

My plans for today's snack were radically altered when the Tumbleweed told me that she would "absolutely not eat" what I had planned to make ("Pinwheels" - tortillas with cheese, lettuce and carrots, rolled up and sliced into circles. Apparently she doesn't like tortillas). So at 9am I was scrambling to come up with a new snack for 25 kids using ingredients we already had in the house. And that is how "Log Rolls" were created...

Log Rolls

Club Snack Stick crackers
American Cheese
Lettuce - sliced into 1.5" x 3" strips
Ham slices - cut in half

Assembly: Break cheese into pieces that fit on the crackers. Place lettuce on top of ham. Roll ham & lettuce around the cheese & cracker.

School Snack Series - Day 3

Today's snack was a variation on one mentioned in a previous post. Since then we have decided to name them "Pogo Sticks" and the Tumbleweed was so excited to share them with her class!

Pogo Sticks

1- Slice a folded up piece of ham into 1" x 1" slices
2- Using two slices of American cheese stacked on top of each other, cut cheese into 9 pieces - a 3 x 3 square.
3- Thread the ham & cheese onto a pretzel stick*
* I sent some with ham & cheese and some with just ham and just cheese, just in case there were some picky eaters

School Snack Series - Day 2

Right now one of the Tumbleweed's favorite snacks is dried apricots, so naturally she wanted to take some to school. And since one of her favorite movies right now is Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure, we decided to make "Buried Treasure" for snack today...

Buried Treasure

Take a small cup and place a dried apricot (cut in half) at the bottom. Then cover with alternating scoops of raisins, golden raisins and craisins (or other favorite dried fruits).

School Snack Series - Day 1

At the Tumbleweed's school each student gets to bring snack five times. The Tumbleweed has been waiting all year - and it is finally her turn! She was very excited that the first one was a big hit...

100 Fruit Slices

6 Oranges - Cut into eighths (except one cut into ten slices)
2 quarts Strawberries (25 berries) - washed, hulled and cut in half


The final product - 100 Fruit slices for the 100th day of school (50 orange, 50 strawberry). All I got back was an empty tray :)

Stay tuned, we have 4 more days to bring snacks...