Apple Rice Crispy Treats

These treats are great to use in a classroom when your theme is Apples! Or make them at home to spruce up an old favorite. 

Need more instructions? Follow them below:

Ingredients:

• Bag of marshmallows
• Butter (3 TBSPs)
• 6 cups of Rice Crispies cereal
• Red food coloring
• Green jelly beans
• Kit Kat bars (cut in to little squares)

Supplies:

• A few mixing bowls
• Cookie Sheet
• Cutting Board
• Round cookie cutter

Put the marshmallows and butter in a microwavable bowl. Microwave for 3 minutes. Be careful when getting it out! Add some red food coloring and stir. Mix in the Rice Crispies! Once mixed, flatten out on a cookie sheet and freeze for 10 minutes. Remove from the freezer and use your cookie cutter to cut out circles. Add your green jelly beans and Kit Kat pieces. Serve only to cutie pies and honey buns! Enjoy!

Beachin' Waffles

For What's Cooking Wednesday we made Beachin' Waffles! These were so fun and so delicious!

When I make waffles I use Betty Crocker's recipe. These are super easy and super delicious. You also need a waffle iron, if you haven't figured that out by now.

First, mix all of the ingredients in the recipe.

Seperate the mixture in to two bowls. In one of the bowls, add blue food coloring. 

Add a little more than half of the regular mixture to the waffle mixture, and fill in the rest of the waffle iron with the blue waffle mix. (See below).

Cook waffles as directed. When finished, garnish with whatever fun beach things you have! I found the mini umbrellas at Hobby Lobby and the gummy sharks at a local toy store. How fun! 

Sea Life Cookies

This week for Takeaway Tuesday and What's Cookin' Wednesday we made Sea Life Cookies! Beau loved this because, duh, cookies!

I was lazy and just bought the remade sugar cookie dough. It was super easy and tasted just as delicious. I rolled it out and let Beau stamp in the cookie cutters.

We had two types of fish and a duck. I know a duck doesn't really go with the whole sea life theme, but it was really cute so we threw it in there.

While we let the cookies cool after baking, I made Royal Icing. Beau put in the food coloring and mixed it up. Then he lathered it on!

After he got tired (which was in about 2 minutes) I finished them off. I secretly enjoy doodling and had a lot of fun decorating these. And they sure were delicious. We ate most of them while watching "Finding Nemo" because we felt that movie was appropriate. 

If you're on a diet or don't want your kids to splurge with so much sugar, consider sharing them with a public worker (mailman, garbage men, etc). Your kids will takeaway that doing nice things for other people is a great way to give back to your community! We will try that next time, but since I'm pregnant and eating for two, I needed the cookies. 

Beachin' Marshmallow Pops

Here is what we did for What's Cooking Wednesday! We made Beaching' Marshmallow Pops! 

Beau loves marshmallow pops. Well, actually, he just loves chocolate. And sugar. And marshmallows. I first learned to make marshmallow pops using a recipe from The Pioneer Woman. Instead of melting chocolate bars, HEB sells these wafers, already in a cup, ready to microwave. Beau likes to test it out first to make sure its not poisonous.

Then we add blue food coloring and mix it up.

And then we dip the lollipop sticks in the chocolate and stick them in the marshmallows. While they dry (for about 10 minutes) we make silly faces at the camera and pretend we are fish.

Then we add some brown sugar (for the sand) and plain goldfish crackers.

Then we eat them. Yummy!

Breakfast Ideas for Kids

When I was a teacher, Beau got a granola bar, at best, for breakfast. I tried to give him Kashi, at least, but hated the feeling I had every morning after dropping him off at day care with a cold, hard granola bar for breakfast.

When I quit my job, I tried to make him breakfast, or he would eat off of mine. But Beau is a grazer so many of times I would find myself making a nice, big breakfast only for it to be left there for the dogs to eat. 

Fast forward to now... I take Beau to work with me every morning to my job of being an Assistant Director at a drop in childcare facility. We get there at 7 am, which means we try to be out the door by 6:30 am. Since I'm there with him and I see what he eats, I started to step up my breakfast game. I went from bench rider to fricken all star. Everyone ooo's and aaa's at his meals, and that makes me feel proud. Since I've been the mom strolling on Pinterest trying to find more creative things to feed my child, I decided to start a Facebook album with each breakfast meal he gets. Keep in mind, there's prep work involved, but it's not as hard as you think to give your child a good meal. Hope this growing Facebook album helps you. Click on the picture to pull up the Facebook album. Don't forget to like my page!

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