School Snack Idea

It's wintertime and the kids are hungry...wait a minute they are always hungry for a little fun snack at school. This snack idea comes from my daughter. I'm so proud of her she came up with this on her own. It almost made me tear up it's so cute. Finally she is doing something like me...thinking of crazy snack ideas. If you like this idea please comment and let her know. She is very proud of it :) It's nuts...no it's crackers....well yes it's NUTCRACKERS. Isn't that fun???? We went to Sam's and bought some indivudually wrapped peanuts and individually wrapped crackers stuck them in a small cup and used some nutcracker scrapbook paper to decorate. I hope the kids enjoy these next week as much as we enjoyed making them. fyi...no one in Nat's class are allergic to nuts so this is possible. If they are allergic to nuts maybe you could put a picture of nuts as a tag on a bunch of crackers?

School Snack Idea - Halloween drink

Why not make the drinks you send into school fun for the kids as well? I always try to spruce the water or juice up in some way. This idea will work with just about any occasion but in the pics above I removed the water label and printed out a simple label for Halloween. I bought some Halloween treat bags and placed an individual sugar free cherry kool aid packet in side along with a Halloween straw. The label says "HAPPY HALLOWEEN. Mix powder with water to make your own Vampire blood". The kids loved this at their Halloween party and felt like they were getting a real treat.

School Snack - Oranges

It's our turn for school lunch this week. We usually do a fruit because most people do a starch like peanut butter crackers and baked chips. While Natalie really likes pb crackers and chips she gets bored with them. In the past I have done strawberries with ff cool whip and mini bananas, ff vanilla pudding, and vanilla wafers. So this time we came up with oranges. Since 1st graders can't usually peel oranges I got that job. If I never have to peel another orange it will be too soon. :) I have to admit even for me I went a little overboard this time around. I made bag toppers for the oranges with a knock knock joke, sewed wet one packs for the wet ones(you can't give kids oranges and not have wet ones can you? I didn't think so). And the thing that put it over the top...when Natalie told me she gets to hand out her treats ...what did I do you ask? Yep, I made her a orange shirt to wear to school and a hair scrunchie on snack day to match her snacks. I told you,,,over the top. But hey, let the other mom's talk about how I must not have a job, etc(BTW, I do have a job)..... I had fun making the stuff and Natalie said she loved it...so yeah! Hope you enjoy the pics and let me know if you have any other ideas for snacks.

School Fun - Utensil Customization - Twist on Lunch Box love note

I went to the grocery store today and I bought a box of 100 plastic forks. When I cook I try to come up with quick projects Natalie can do to keep her happy. Today's project consisted of white plastic forks and a sharpie marker. Natalie and I customized all 100 of them. We first began with a halloween theme with ghosts, witches, halloween sayings, etc. Then when we ran out of ideas I started coming up with ideas for her school lunch. I usually send a note or goodie in her lunch box anyways so this would be great for the note. I thought of the usual notes...I love you, Your the best daughter ever, etc. I also thought it would be fun to tell her when her favorite shows come on in the evenings...Like - New GLEE on tonight!!! Ideas for customizing your silverware are endless. HAVE SOME FUN!!!

School Snacks

Natalie started kindergarten a fews ago and it has been busy. A little bit of homework every night, early bedtimes, and bathtime at night so we don't have to get up so early. It's been a whirlwind but she really loves her teachers and she is learning a lot already. We volunteered to bring in snacks for the class two days every other month. I cut up some strawberries and put 6 of them in snack ziplocs. I also got two tubs of fat free cool whip and put them in snack size cups for each child. Natalie said everyone liked strawberries but one person. So I would say that was pretty good. Next snack day we are doing low fat cheese sticks and wheat crackers. Anyone have any better snacktime ideas? The snacks can't be high in sugar.