Cooking with Preschoolers
Spiders using oreos, pull apart twizzlers, icing and m&ms.
Ants On A Log
•Raisens
•Celery or Pretzel logs
•Peanut Butter
(honey butter can be substituted if you cannot have peanut butter in
your center)
~Give each child a piece of celery, raisens, and a spoon of peanut butter (child keeps their spoon of peanut butter to spread) on a paper plate.
~children spread the peanut butter on the
celery and then top with raisens. Use cream cheese as alternative to peanut
butter.
Ants On A Log
Ants On A Log•Raisens
•Celery or Pretzel logs
•Peanut Butter
(honey butter can be substituted if you cannot have peanut butter in
your center)
~Give each child a piece of celery, raisens, and a spoon of peanut butter (child keeps their spoon of peanut butter to spread) on a paper plate.
~children spread the peanut butter on the
celery and then top with raisens. Use cream cheese as alternative to peanut
butter.
Edible Candy Clay
Candy Clay
You Will Need:
1 pound of
powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup margarine (softened)
1 tsp. vanillaextract
5-7 drops food
coloring
What to do:
• Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until
blended (add more powdered sugar if too sticky)
• make animals etc.. YES you can eat it Yummy!
You Will Need:
1 pound of
powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup margarine (softened)
1 tsp. vanillaextract
5-7 drops food
coloring
What to do:
• Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until
blended (add more powdered sugar if too sticky)
• make animals etc.. YES you can eat it Yummy!
Homemade Playdough
What you will need:
• 7 cups of all purpose flour
• 4 cups hot water
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 tablespoons of cream of tarter
• 3 cups of salt
• several different colors of food coloring
What to do:
~ Mix flour, cream of tarter and salt in a mixing bowl and mix
~ Add oil and water and knead (add flour to get softer dough)
~divide playdough and knead different food coloring into each.
~ store in container with lid or divide it up and put in ziploc bags for children to take home.
Hint: if playdough dries out add water and knead through
• 7 cups of all purpose flour
• 4 cups hot water
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 tablespoons of cream of tarter
• 3 cups of salt
• several different colors of food coloring
What to do:
~ Mix flour, cream of tarter and salt in a mixing bowl and mix
~ Add oil and water and knead (add flour to get softer dough)
~divide playdough and knead different food coloring into each.
~ store in container with lid or divide it up and put in ziploc bags for children to take home.
Hint: if playdough dries out add water and knead through
Refreshing Lemonade
What you need:• 8 Lemons
• 6 cups water
• 1 cup sugar
• ice
What to do:
• Slice Lemons in half and squeeze lemon juice into a pitcher
• Add water and sugar then stir.
• Add ice to chill
Edible Ocean
What you will need:
• 1 cup of pre-made blueberry flavored gelatin for each child
• gummy fish
What to do:
~ prepare the gelatin
ahead of time in separate clear plastic cups (1 per child)
~ let children gently place fish into cup and
enjoy
Hint: for a carnival theme fill a clear plastic
party bag with blueberry gelatin, place a orange gummy fish in the middle and tie bag
shut with a ribbon. Looks like the fish in a bag you win at the carnival/fair.
• 1 cup of pre-made blueberry flavored gelatin for each child
• gummy fish
What to do:
~ prepare the gelatin
ahead of time in separate clear plastic cups (1 per child)
~ let children gently place fish into cup and
enjoy
Hint: for a carnival theme fill a clear plastic
party bag with blueberry gelatin, place a orange gummy fish in the middle and tie bag
shut with a ribbon. Looks like the fish in a bag you win at the carnival/fair.
Butter
Butter
Making butter is so much fun! This
activity can tie in with "The Farm" theme or Thanksgiving.
•1 Baby food jar for each child
•Heavy cream
~Fill each childs jar 1/2 way and replace
lid tightly
~Have the children shake until the cream
becomes thick.
~refrigerate overnight and serve with rolls.
Making butter is so much fun! This
activity can tie in with "The Farm" theme or Thanksgiving.
•1 Baby food jar for each child
•Heavy cream
~Fill each childs jar 1/2 way and replace
lid tightly
~Have the children shake until the cream
becomes thick.
~refrigerate overnight and serve with rolls.
Charoses
What you will need:
• 6 medium apples
• 1/2 -1 cup raisins
• 1/ 2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1/4 cup white grape juice
What to do:
• peel and chop apples
• add all ingredients in bowl and mix well
What you will need:
• 6 medium apples
• 1/2 -1 cup raisins
• 1/ 2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1/4 cup white grape juice
What to do:
• peel and chop apples
• add all ingredients in bowl and mix well
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
•Heres a great activity that has multiple lessons involved! We cut open the top of the pumpkins and the children each have an oppotunity to reach in a grab the "guts" we talk about how it feels, smells, etc. They each get a scoop on a paper plate and a bowl to put the seeds in. They fill the bowls with seeds and then wash them through a strainer.
•Have the children spread out their seeds on a cooking sheet (spray cooking sheet ahead of time with cooking spray)
• Spinkle salt on them, put in oven for about 30-40 minutes at
350 degrees..turning as needed until they are golden
brown. Remove and cool.
Caramel Apples
Caramel Apples•caramel squares
•Apples (one for each child)
•chocolate morsels
•Sprinkles
•skewers (find at walmart/ craft stores)
•wax paper
~Melt the caramel in a
saucepan (you can add milk
to help thin it out) or use a
croc pot.
~ Assist the children in
dipping their apple in
the caramel.
~Sprinkle with chocolate
morsels or sprinkles before
they dry!
~place on wax paper
Spider Cookies
What you need:• chocolate sandwich cookies
• black lace licorice
• white frosting
• mini chocolate candies or
red hots
• white icing
What to do:
• open cookie and lay legs across so you have 8 legs.
• place top over the legs
• add two chocolate candies or red hots for eyes using the white icing.....YUMMY!
Edible Witch's Hat
What You Need:
• Chocolate
Cookies
• Chocolate Icing
• Chocolate Kisses
What To Do:
• Use a small
dab of icing to "glue" the kiss to
the top of a
chocolate cookie
• Enjoy!
• Chocolate
Cookies
• Chocolate Icing
• Chocolate Kisses
What To Do:
• Use a small
dab of icing to "glue" the kiss to
the top of a
chocolate cookie
• Enjoy!
Edible Jack-O-Lantern
What You Need:
• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Yellow Chocolate Candies or candy corn for eyes
• Brown mini
chocolate candies or
raisens for mouth
• Banana shaped candies or candy corn for nose
• Orange Icing (you can mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Spread icing over top of rice
cake
• Add Eyes, mouth and nose with candies
• pull apart taffy and form leaf for top
• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Yellow Chocolate Candies or candy corn for eyes
• Brown mini
chocolate candies or
raisens for mouth
• Banana shaped candies or candy corn for nose
• Orange Icing (you can mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Spread icing over top of rice
cake
• Add Eyes, mouth and nose with candies
• pull apart taffy and form leaf for top
St. Patricks Day Float
What You Need:
• 2 quarts of grape juice
• 2 quarts of gingerale
• 2 quarts of lime sherbert
• whipped cream
What to do:
• Fill each cup 1/4 way of grape juice
• add a scoop of sherbert
• add gingerale almost to the top
• top with yummy whipped cream
• 2 quarts of grape juice
• 2 quarts of gingerale
• 2 quarts of lime sherbert
• whipped cream
What to do:
• Fill each cup 1/4 way of grape juice
• add a scoop of sherbert
• add gingerale almost to the top
• top with yummy whipped cream
Edible Cookie Ghosts
What You Need:
• Vienna Fingers
• White Icing
• Mini chocolate
candies
• Plastic knives
What To Do:
• Cover the top and side of the cookies with
icing using
plastic knives
• Add chocolate
candies for eyes
and mouth
• Vienna Fingers
• White Icing
• Mini chocolate
candies
• Plastic knives
What To Do:
• Cover the top and side of the cookies with
icing using
plastic knives
• Add chocolate
candies for eyes
and mouth
Edible Valentine Craft
Make this cute edible craft by covering the top of a caramel rice cake with pink icing (mix white icing with pink food coloring) and add fruit shaped candies for eyes, nose
and mouth.
Yummy Smoothies
Apple Banana Smoothie
•1 Yellow Delicious
Apple, diced
•1 Peeled, sliced banana
•1/4 cup milk
•3 ice cubes
•Blender
~Mix all the ingredients together in the
blender and serve...YUMMY!
•1 Yellow Delicious
Apple, diced
•1 Peeled, sliced banana
•1/4 cup milk
•3 ice cubes
•Blender
~Mix all the ingredients together in the
blender and serve...YUMMY!
Apple Cider
What you need:• 2 Quarts Apple juice
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 teaspoon cloves
What to do:
• combine ingredients in croc
pot and cook for 2-3 hours.
Applesauce
AppleSauce•3 cored, peeled,sliced apples
•2 cups water
•cinnamon
~Boil apples until soft, blend
in a blender add
cinnamon to
taste,
refrigerate until
cool. Enjoy!
Edible Apple Craft
What You Need:• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Red Icing (mix white icing with
red food coloring)
• Brown chocolate candies to represent
seeds
• Green Taffy
• Brown licorice or tootsie roll for stem
What To Do:
• Cover top and sides with red icing and add chocolate candies for seeds.
• Pull apart taffy and shape into a leaf and add stem/leaf to top.
Apple Pie Pocket
Make these simple apple pockets with Grands Biscuits. Press out dough with hands or rolling pin so the biscuit is flat and round. Add apple pie filling to one half of the circle (I used the Apple Pie filling they sell at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store) you can add cinnamon if it is not in the filling. Fold over the biscuit to form a "pocket" and pinch down the sides with your fingers or a fork to seal. Bake in oven on cookie sheet at 350 degrees until golden brown. Add a scoop of caramel ice cream and enjoy!
Worms in Dirt Cups
What You Need:• 4 cups milk
• 2 packages instant chocolate pudding mix
• 16 oz cool whip (in
container)
• 2 packages of chocolate sandwich cookies
• gummy worms (2-3 per child)
• clear plastic cups (1 per child)
What to do:
• In a gallon sized ziploc bag put cookies and allow kids to use a rolling pin to crush them into small pieces. (do the same for the
other package of cookies)
• In two separate large mixing bowls
make the pudding according to the the directions on package and allow to
thicken.
• Stir in 8 ounces of cool whip and 1/2 of ONE bag of crushed cookies into each bowl of pudding and mix with a rubber scraper.
• put 1 tablespoon of crushed cookies on the bottom of each cup, fill 3/4 of pudding mix, and then top with remainder of cookies. Add
gummy worms and chill for about 1 hour.
Apple Sauce Cookies
What You Need:
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Shortening
• 2 Cups Flour
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cloves
• 1 Cup applesauce
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• chocolate chips/Raisens
• 1 tsp baking soda
What To Do:
• Mix 2 eggs, sugar, shortening,apple sauce and baking soda together
• Add remainder of ingredients
• Spoon onto a baking sheet
• Cook at 400 degrees until golden brown
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Shortening
• 2 Cups Flour
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cloves
• 1 Cup applesauce
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• chocolate chips/Raisens
• 1 tsp baking soda
What To Do:
• Mix 2 eggs, sugar, shortening,apple sauce and baking soda together
• Add remainder of ingredients
• Spoon onto a baking sheet
• Cook at 400 degrees until golden brown
Edible Pumpkin
What You Need:
• Caramel
Rice Cakes
• Orange Icing (mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Cover top of
rice cake with orange icing
• Pull apart taffy
and form a leaf, attach.
• Caramel
Rice Cakes
• Orange Icing (mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Cover top of
rice cake with orange icing
• Pull apart taffy
and form a leaf, attach.