Fun Food Recipes for Kids!

Cup of Fish

Ingredients:
1 box of blue Jello
1 package of gummy fish/ or fruit flavored sharks
3/4 cup boiling water
1/2 cup cold water
Instructions:
Stir boiling water into gelatin in medium bowl at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved. Add enough ice cudes to cold water to measure 1-1/4 cups. Add to gelatin. Stir until slightly thickened. Pour mixture into cups evenly. Suspend fruit snack in gelatin, and refridgerate for about an hour or until firm.

Dirt Cups

Ingredients:
1 box of chocolate Jello pudding
2 cups of cold milk
1 package of COOL WHIP (8oz.)
1 package of gummy worms
15 OREO chocolate Sandwhich cookies (crushed!)
5 desert cups
Instructions:
Prepare chocolate pudding as directed on box and set aside for 5 minutes. Stir COOL WHIP topping into pudding. Sprinkle a layer of the crushed OREO's into bottom of each cup, pour a layer with pudding mixture top, continue to layer to fill desert cup. When ready to serve place a couple of gummy worms into desert.

Gorb Balls

Ingredients:
1/3 cup each raisins, apples, apricots, dates and coconut
1/2 cup sesame seeds
1/3 cup walnuts
2 cups peanuts
1 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup peanut butter
Instructions:
Mix dry ingredients. For the "glue", use 1 cup chocolate chips, 1/3 cup honey and 1/2 cup peanut butter. Shape into balls; nice snack for hiking trips or as an after-school snack.

Finger Paint

Ingrediants:
1/2 cup cornstarch
1cup cold water
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2cup hot water
1/2 cup soap flakes or detergent
Instructions:
Dissolve cornstarch in 3/4 cup cold water, soak gelatin in remaining 1/4 c. cold water. Add hot water to cornstarch mix. Cook on medium heat, until it starts to boil and is clear, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Blend in softened gelatin. Add soap and stir until dissolved. Cool, and divide into 5 jars. Color each one with desired color with food coloring. Kids love to finger paint. If it is a nice day outside, let them paint outside. Clean up is easy, just spray off paint with the garden hose.
HAVE FUN PAINTING!

Kitty Cookies

Ingredients:
1 package Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
2/3 cup pecan halves
1/3 cup smarties
48 (2 1/2-inch) thin pretzel sticks, halved
Instructions:
Place cookie dough in freezer for at least 1 hour. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut cookie dough into 24 slices. Place slices 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. For ears, press 2 pecan halves onto top of each cookie, overlapping edge of cookie. For eyes and nose, press in candy pieces. For whiskers place 2 pretzel pieces of each side of nose; press slightly.Bake at 350 degrees, for 11-13 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets.

Little Piggy’s

Ingredients:
1 pkg. bun length hot dogs (cut in half)
2 Pkgs. refrigerated biscuits
8 pieces individually wrapped cheese slices (cut in half)
Instructions:
Wrap each hot dog piece with half of a cheese slice. Then stretch the biscuit and wrap it around the hot dog and cheese. Cook as directed by the biscuit package. Serve with ketchup, mustard, or BBQ sauce.

Oobleck Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups of corn starch
3 drops of green food coloring
enough water to make a thick mixture (about the texture of pancake batter) measure equal amounts of water and corn starch, but mix water in slowly.
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together. This makes a fun mixture to play with textures. Use different utensils, such as a spatula, bowl, and funnels, to see what form the mixture will take.

Pigeon Poop

Ingredients:
5 cups of peanut butter crunch cereal
3 cups of Rice Krispies
2 cups of skinny pretzels/broken in half
2 lbs. of white chocolate
2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
Instructions:
Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl. Melt white chocolate in double boiler; pour over dry ingredients and spread out on wax paper to cool. Break into chunks.

Playdough

Ingredients:
1 cup Flour
1 cup Water
1/2 cup Salt
2 tbs Cream of tartar
1tbs Oil
Instructions:
Cook until dough forms a mass in a pan. Turn it out on a plate, pick an old one, and cover it with a damp cloth, also an old one. Food coloring may be added. Store playdough in the refrigerator.

Rock Candy

Ingredients:
1 Glass
1 Piece of string (cotton)
1 Pencil or stick
1 Paper clip
2 cups Sugar
1 cup Water
1 Food coloring (Optional)
Instructions:
Heat the water to boiling, and when the water stops boiling dissolve the 3 cups of sugar into it. Let cool some and reheat (Do Not Re-boil) and add as much sugar that will dissolve in it. Add a few drops of food coloring to the solution if desired.
Let cool for two minutes and pour the solution into glass or jar. Tie a short piece of cotton string to the middle of the pencil or stick. Attach a paper clip to the end of the string for a weight. Moisten the string very lightly, and roll in a bit of sugar Place the pencil or stick over the top of the glass or jar with the string hanging down inside. Leave undisturbed for a couple of days. Depending on how much sugar you were able to dissolve into the water, you should start to see crystals growing in a few hours