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It was “Build Your Own Bug” day recently in my Friday cooking class. I loaded celery sticks with cream cheese, and gave the kids tomatoes and pretzels in individual bowls so they could create edible butterflies or bugs. The best part might have been the candy googly eyeballs.
Ingredients
Celery sticks, washed and cut into 3-4″ lengths
Low-fat cream cheese, nut butter or sunflower butter
mini pretzels, pretzel thins, or other cracker shapes
small cherry tomatoes, olives, and/or small carrot pieces
raisins or currants
candy eyes (found in baking aisle)
Instructions
Simply smear the cream cheese or nut butter into the celery stick.
Let your littles create bugs with the ingredients in a “kit” – i.e., in a bowl or on a plate. See what creatures emerge!
More Information
On “Build Your Own Bug” day, the kids enjoyed free reign to turn these simple, healthy-ish ingredients into critters.
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