Archive for Kid Friendly Meals & Recipes
Stone Soup Recipe
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Whether you’re doing a Unit on FOLKTALES or just reading adding it to your reading list, young kids always enjoy reading Stone Soup. After you’ve read the story a few times why not have each of the children bring a vegetable to school for a stew. Let them work on washable plastic placemats and use serrated knives to cut the vegetables into very small pieces. (Some vegetable are quite hard so either you can cut them or blanche them to soften for the children to cut).
Provide a washed stone and some chicken or beef broth. Cook all of the ingredients in a pot or an electric frypan until done (about an hour. I would let it cook through nap time and we would eat soup for afternoon snack!)
Reread or retell the story or simply discuss the story as the group eats the stone soup.
The 3 Peanut-Butter Bears Recipe
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This recipe may lean more toward a ‘playdough’ though it’s a bit easier on those little tummies than the usual playdough recipes with so much salt. (Here you’ll find none! 
) This is another great recipe to use when your weekly Unit Theme is FOLKTALES. Remember… you can incorporate a little math lesson here too. Naturally, you’ll want an alternative if you’re concerned about any potential peanut allergies.
1-1/2 cups peanut butter
1-1/2 cups dry milk
2 Tablespoons honey
(Makes two cups of dough)
Mix the peanut butter and the dry milk together. Stir in the honey. The mixture should look like light-brown dough. (Add a little more dry milk if the mixture is too sticky. TIP: I recommend you make this dough as it’s quite a sticky mess initially. I’ve found when I let the kids help in making it we had very little usable dough)
Wash hands. Give each child a share of the dough and a piece of waxed paper to work on. Shape bears by rolling balls for heads and bodies and by adding small balls and bits for ears, nose, eyes, and paws. Let each child make one of the three bears with his or her share of the dough. Ask each child about which bear he or she is making and why.
Gingerbread Man Recipe
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Here’s a simple recipe that the children can help with… both the measuring and mixing as well as the cutting and decorating. You might want to plan for this while doing a Learning Unit on FOLKTALES!
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1-1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ginger
raisins
Cream the sugar and butter together. Sift and mix in the other ingredients to make dough. (Chilling for awhile will make rolling out easier)
Roll out the dough. Let the children use a gingerbread man or woman cookie cutter to cut out shapes. Then add raisins for buttons and facial features on the shape.
Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes or until brown.