Apple Trees: Red Delicious, Granny Smith, or Golden Delicious
Apple Pattern Kabobs: Apple Jacks (cereal), Apple chunks, Apple Jacks, Apple chunks, etc.
Build a House: Graham crackers & frosting (for glue). Hershey's chocolate piece for the door. Chocolate frosting & sprinkles roof.
Butterfly Grapes and crackers
Dirt Cups (Mother's Day or Gardening Themes) Chocolate pudding & Oreyo cookie crumbs for the dirt. Add a gummy worm and plant a flower
Easter Egg Cookie Faces Multiple colors of pastel frosting. Jelly beans and M&M's
Five Senses: Rice cake & cream cheese . Raisin eyes and chocolate chip nose. Licorice mouth and peach gummy ring ears (cut in half). Paper hands.
USA Flag Graham cracker rectangle. Use whipped cream base. Use blueberries for blue section of flag and cut strips of strawberries for red stripes.
Teeth Dental health theme or George Washington's teeth. Apple slices with caramel apple dip and mini marshmallows.
Gingerbread Sugar Cookies (kids like sugar cookie recipe better than gingerbread) Frosting in a tube and decorations.
Green Eggs & Ham #1
Green Eggs & Ham #2
Mini Bagel Cream Cheese and Green Food Coloring Vanilla Wafer Cookie Strip of Ham
Mini Brownie Burgers Vanilla wafers for buns. Brownies cut into circles for meat. Red and yellow frosting for catsup and mustard (and glue to hold the whole thing together).
The Hungry Caterpillar Strawberry Cut a hole through the center of strawberry. Add a gummy worm.
Jelly Flowers Bread is cut into a flower shape with a cookie cutter. Spread sugar free strawberry jelly to coat flower. Center piece can be any circular food (such as a jelly bean). Green licorice for a stem (or piece of celery). Rasberry jelly on rectangle shaped bread for "dirt".
Leprechaun Sandwiches Two vanilla wafer cookies with green frosting centers.
Licorice Letters (or pretzel sticks).
Lincoln Log Cabin Large pretzel sticks with cream cheese on each end. Triangle shaped cheese roof with graham cracker door.
Luau Fruit Kabobs All different fruits threaded on kabob sticks. Watermelon chunks, cantaloupe, grapes, pineapple etc. Mini marshmallows and ham rolls , too.
Mickey Mouse Faces Rice cake with M&M eyes, gum drop nose and fruit slice mouth. Ears are two vanilla wafers with chocolate frosting. Healthy substitution: Berries for eyes and orange slice for mouth.
Pancakes Kids pour and flip pancakes, using a griddle. Can teach how to use plastic knife and fork to cut.
English Muffin Pizzas English muffin crust with pizza sauce, grated cheese, olive slices and hot dog rounds (like pepperoni).
Pumpkin Pie Separate ingredients into bowls for children to mix. Pour into pie crust and cook.
Marshmallow Snowmen Large marshmallows with raisin details and pretzel arms.
Mini-doughnut Snowmen Two mini donuts with Hershey chocolate pieces for eyes and candy corn for nose. P.S. No buttons needed since he has a "belly-button".
Spiders Ritz crackers for bodies. Colored cream cheese for bodies and to glue pretzel legs. Andy round pieces for eyes.
Traffic Lights Graham cracker rectangle with three vanilla wafers. Frosting is powdered sugar, milk and food coloring. Spread colored frosting on vanilla wafers.
Valentine's Day Hearts (Smile Cookies) Sugar cookies cut into hearts. Mix various colors of frosting. Decorate making a smile with candies. (I choose to decorate making a smile on the cookie because it limits the amount of candies the children need to use).
Valentine Mouse Sponge cake filled with whipped cream. Decorate with strawberry ears, blueberry eyes, one heart candy for nose, and licorice piece mouth.
Volcano Sugar cone, whipped vanilla frosting, red food coloring Extra: mini chocolate chips (lava rocks)