Dr. Seuss {Inspired} Food & Snack Ideas

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It's Dr. Seuss' birthday! 

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week we have been reading lots of Dr. Seuss books and enjoying all kinds of fun activities.  It was fun for me to try to incorporate the books into some of our lunches and snacks.

Here are a few of the things I made for the Lil Divas this week:

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Lunch

What's In It:
Tuna fish sandwich on fish shaped wheat bread
rainbow goldfish crackers
One Fish, Two Fish Jello (blue raspberry jello w/swedish goldfish inside)
Pink Yink Ink Drink - (Shh, actually it's just pink lemonade)

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Fruit Kabobs

What's In It:
strawberries & bananas make up the hat & the head is a grape

Yes, that's it! Cute, easy, yummy & healthy = win, win, win, win!

The Lorax Sandwich & Truffula Trees

What's In It:
PB & J Sandwich - eyes are raisins, mustache & mouth made of apple slices.
Truffula Trees are twizzlers w/cotton candy tops

These are some Seuss Snack ideas we did last year -

Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast

What's In It:
scrambled eggs & ham w/a hint of green food color
bagels - the melted butter has a hint of green food color too


Green Eggs & Ham Dessert

What's In It:

Lime Sherbert & Whipped Cream - super easy & sure to please!

Cat in the Hat:

What's In It:

Nilla Wafers

marshmallows

cherry gummy life savers

vanilla icing

The Books:

Bern

** Don't forget to link up to the Ultimate Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss Linky Party!**

Holiday Traditions: Christmas Baking w/The Lil Divas

The Lil Divas LOVE helping in the kitchen 

and one of the things they enjoy most is baking.

It has become a tradition that we bake cookies and cupcakes for our family gatherings and of course for Santa. It's a messy but fun tradition that we enjoy doing together in the days before Christmas.

We made Chocolate Chip Cookies for Santa -

did you know they were his favorite?

We made Sugar Cookies 

using our holiday cookie cutter shapes

and decorated them using lots of icing, sprinkles & candies!

We also made some Cinnamon Sugar Cookies w/Hershey's Kisses

So many YUMMY cookies - so little time! 

Another of our holiday traditions is to make Reindeer Cupcakes!

Do you have any holiday baking traditions?

Books:

Bern

Gingerbread Boys, Girls & Babies, Oh My!

Gingerbread Week was such a hit -

it's still going strong!

After the Great Gingerbread House Baking Failure

I was very leery of getting involved with anymore gingerbread dough.

Of course, the Lil Divas had their hearts set on making cookies.

We made gingerbread men last year  but after reading 

our many wonderful gingerbread books together this week,

they wanted to make their own gingerbread boys, girls and babies.

I may not be SUPERMOM but I hate to disappoint my girls.

I am also NOT a gluten for punishment so this time

I decided to forgo the "this must be made from scratch" ideology

and bought an easy mix which required nothing but butter, water and a touch of oil.

Family Traditions: 

Baking & Decorating Gingerbread Cookies

This time I refrigerated the dough after mixing( for 1-2 hrs.) 

& I am happy to report that it worked so much better! 

The Lil Divas had a great time cutting out gingerbread shapes.

We had 3 different sized cookie cutters and they used a variety of sizes

in order to make boys, girls and babies. 

Once we put them in the oven, it was time to stand guard!

We can't have those gingerbreads running off, cam we?

I think they were secretly hoping a few would pop up 

from the pan & run off!

Alas, all we had we had were some regular old gingerbread cookies.

We let them cool & then the Lil Divas set out to have some fun -

it was cookie DECORATING time!

They really took their time creating the cookie masterpieces.

We opted to use some easy icing tubes

& the Lil Divas drew to their  hearts content.

Pretty soon we had some yummy & wonderful

gingerbread boys, girls and of course babies,

It was a wonderful afternoon of baking and decorating.

Books That Inspired Us:

Do you bake & decorate gingerbread cookies at your home?

What other Christmas traditions do you have?

Bern

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed! (Red Velvet Apple Cupcakes)

In honor of Johnny Appleseed's birthday (9/26) and our Apple Theme 

we whipped up these adorable & delicious

  Red Velvet Apple Cupcakes!

These are so cute & fairly easy to make.

They do require a lil prep but the end result is worth it!

Red Velvet Cupcake  & Cream Cheese Icing Recipe

To turn your red velvet cupcakes into apples you will need: 

chocolate twizzlers or tootsie rolls

sour apple laffy taffy

What To Do:

1. I cut the twizzlers into 4 pieces to make the stems

2. cut the taffy into small pieces and form a leaf

3. attach taffy leaf to stem by pressing them on - they will stick

Note: keep the taffy relatively thin so it's not too heavy. 

I learned this the hard way!

4. use red food coloring to turn cream cheese icing red

5. attach stems w/leaves to frosted cupcakes &

enjoy your Red Velvet Apple Cupcakes!

Additional Fun:

 Johnny Appleseed

  coloring page 

color by number

 maze

Books:

Movie:

Did you celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday? What did you do?

Bern

TP Roll Apple Trees & Crescent Roll Mini Cinnamon Apple Pies

Craft: TP Roll Apple Trees 

These are so EASY to make & so festive to have around the house.

What You Need:

Toilet Paper Roll

green construction paper

green, red, yellow & brown paint

paint brushes

scissors

What to Do:

1. Paint the TP roll brown

 (this is optional but we wanted a darker brown)

2. Cut green tree top

(I drew it for them)

3. add apples using fingertips in colors of choice

- we used red, green & yellow

4. Allow pieces to dry

5. Once dry cut slits into both sides of TP roll 

and attach tree top to finish the apple trees

Preschool Math: Counting Apple Seeds

(from Confessions of a Homeschooler)

My Preschooler worked on this while my Kindergartener worked on homework but she decided she wanted to do it too. So that it wasn't too easy I took out the number cards and had her write the numbers for practice. I also had her count the seeds in spanish! :)

Kid Friendly Snack: Crescent Roll Mini Cinnamon Apple Pie

I have plans to bake an apple pie with the Lil Divas. 

It's been on my mind - YUM!

The Lil Divas & I made some Mini Apple Pies for dessert. 

None of this was made from scratch! :)

Yes, I cheated (for now) but this was SUPER EASY 

& so DELICIOUS!

What You Need:

Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

(1 can = 4 min pies)

Cinnamon Apple Pie Filling

Cinnamon Powder

cinnamon sugar

Butter

What to Do:

1. Open a can of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls & unfold.

2. Break into 4 equal pieces (2 crescent rolls each).

3. spread butter on the rolls and sprinkle with cinnamon powder

4. put some apple pie filling in the middle of each piece

(I cut the apple pieces into small pieces)

5. add more cinnamon powder on top of the apples

6. fold up so that the apples are covered and it forms a mini pie

7. sprinkle with cinnamon sugar

8. bake until golden -

heat oven to 375 degrees & bake for approx. 12-15 mins

EVERYONE enjoyed them!

Book:

Bern