Food, Fun, and ABC's

Hey everyone!  I wanted to do a fun post on all the foods I have made to help my students remember the alphabet.  We used to cook every week, and I hope to do more of that this coming year.  I will put the letters in ABC order and give you some ideas on foods you can make with or for your child that will help them remember the letter you are working on. 

A:  cooked apples...  Have your child peel and cut up several apples.  Use a plastic knife. It really works!  You can help too and when you are done, put the apples in a pan, add some water to cover the apples, 2 Tbsp butter and some sugar.  You can add cinnamon red hots if you want.  We called those red hot apples. Boil until the apples are soft.

B:  Bubble Bread...get two cans of biscuits.  Spray a bread pan or angel food cake pan and open the biscuits.  Have your child roll the biscuits up into balls and roll them in cinnamon and sugar. Place all these covered balls into the pan.  When you are done, melt 1/2 to whole stick of butter and pour over rolls.  Bake 375 degrees until brown and bubbly. 

c:  crazy cookies...using the premade sugar cookies have each child decorate their cookie with the ingredients they want.  Some things to have on hand...icing, sprinkles, M&M's, cherries, fruit...

D:  donuts...you can have them cut donuts out of biscuits and you fry them and let them decide if they want to dip them in powdered sugar or cinnamon and sugar.

E:  egg salad...I would give each child a hard boiled egg and had them peel the shell off.  They then used a plastic knife to chop the egg in pieces and but it in their plastic cup.  Have them put a tsp or mayo and some pickle relish in their cup and stir it up.  They can put this on bread and eat!

F:  french fry party!  We would bake some fries and have the kids chose their condiments and we would eat and play go fish.

G:  gorp...this is just a fun mixture like party mix.  We provided cereal, pretzels, candy, marshmallows and peanuts and the kids would get a baggie and go to each bowl and fill their bags with the mixture they wanted.

H:  honey balls...this is a yummy treat made with honey, powdered milk and peanut butter.  I have lost the recipe over time.  I just put peanut butter in a bowl and add about 1/2 the amount of honey.  Then I add powdered milk until it is a stiff dough.  This is fun for them to play with and eat. 

I will continue this fun cooking blog in two more blogs. 

Bye