This would be an easy & fun patriotic art project for preschool and Kindergarten children. You will need a fork, red, white and blue paint and construction paper to make these Fireworks!
How cute and yummy is this Fourth of July toast for breakfast? Give it a try and find out! Patriotic Flag Toast!
For a fun and healthy Fourth of July snack, make fruit kabobs into the shape of the American Flag. Patriotic Fruit Kabobs!
Easter will be here soon and I found some super cute and easy to make gifts. I'm thinking about doing a couple of these with my kids. Cute & Crafty Easter Gifts!
While shopping at a farmers market over the weekend, I noticed a poster at one of the tables that said "Breakfast on the Farm". I talked to the farmer about it and she offered me free tickets to the event. As it turns out, the breakfast on the farm event is a Michigan State University Extension. Families get a tour of the farm, learn about milking cows, get to pet a calf, see the farm equipment, take wagon ride, learn where food comes from, eat ice cream and also eat a farm fresh breakfast. I'm really excited to take my kids to this event. It should be a really fun learning experience for our whole family. Breakfast on the Farm is hosted at various farms in Michigan. If you live too far to take advantage of one of these great events, you could do a search or ask around at farmers markets in your area to see if something similar is offered near you. I love finding new, fun, educational activities for my family. Breakfast on the Farm.
My kids and I have been busy in the kitchen today. I let them create some fun designs in our cupcakes before baking. They had so much fun with this and the cupcake batter turned out really cute. I almost hate to decorate them and cover up their creativity. I'm sure they will have fun with the frosting part too though.
My sister's birthday is on July 4th and every year we have a family get together for a combined holiday / birthday celebration. My girls and I are making cupcakes. I was thinking of doing either red, white and blue cupcakes or a flag cake. I did some searching and found the best of both worlds, a cupcake flag cake! So easy and cute! Cupcake Flag Cake.
Another cute and easy idea that would be fun for little kitchen helpers is Red, White and Blue Strawberries. Instead of using white chocolate, you could substitute yogurt instead. Of course, the yogurt would not harden and you would need to keep it cold.
When I was growing up, my grandma used to make a fun flag cake each Fourth of July. It was so easy and cute. She made a white cake, frosted it with whipped cream and then used blueberries and strawberries to make it look like the USA flag. I was always so impressed with that cake as a child :) It looked a lot like this flag cake.
My kids and I went sweet cherry picking a couple of days ago and we are also making sweet cherry muffins today. We'll eat them for breakfast Fourth of July morning. I'm going to try this cherry muffin recipe. We're not going to add blueberries this time but I was just thinking you could make them more festive by adding blueberries too.
For those of you celebrating America's birthday, have a fun and safe Independence Day!
I was searching for a cute May Day treat and I came across these adorable Hydrangea Cupcakes! They would be really cute for a Mother's Day dinner / lunch dessert too. I love hydrangeas, especially the light blue and purple color! I have three big hydrangea plants in my garden. They are so pretty. I have several Wilton cake tips and I'm pretty sure I have the one used for these cupcakes. I'm going to give it a try! My kids love decorating cookies and cupcakes. It's fun for them to take part in baking / decorating even if the end result doesn't always look exactly as we've envisioned. Here is another link with a Duncan Hines hydrangea cupcake recipe.
Since it's April 1st, I wanted to pull a fun prank on my family today. My kids did a great job pranking me so I thought about what to do all day. Inspiration finally hit a couple of hours before dinner. I decided to make muffin tin meat loafs look like cupcakes. For the frosting, I made mashed potatoes and dyed them blue. It was a fun surprise. My husband thought it was pretty awesome. The kids thought it was funny but they were a little disappointed that we were not having real cupcakes. They were really happy to find out that I also made real (not a prank) chocolate chip muffins for dessert . They had to eat their cupcake before they could get a muffin though. :)
I was looking for an easy Valentine's Day treat for my kids to help make when I found these! So cute and easy! I'm sure they will be a hit. Marshmallow Treat Pops.
The leaves are just starting to have a hint of color and the temps are getting a bit cooler. Fall is in the air! This has me thinking of apples! Today I was looking for some apple themed treat ideas and I found some cute stuff to try. Check these out!
The Apple of our Eye Cupcakes from Family Fun
Krispy Apple Treats from Gourmet Mom on the Go
Caramel Apple Cookies (on a stick with no caramel or apples) from The Decorated Cookie
Mini Oreo Apple Pops from The Crafting Chicks
My daughter has some food allergies so it's always wonderful when we find good frozen treat alternatives for her. I'm going to give this super easy recipe a try. We have SunButter in the pantry and frozen bananas in the freezer. We're going to a birthday party today and since she can't have cake or ice cream, I think I might bring some along. A two ingredient "ice-cream" made with SunButter and frozen bananas. Doesn't get much easier. Enjoy! SunButter ice-cream
This morning I surprised my kids with light up heart spinners and Valentine snow globes. They loved their surprises. My husband is working tonight but we're planning to go out for a nice lunch on a different day. Restaurants are too busy on Valentine's Day anyhow. Maybe I'll make heart shaped pancakes and strawberry banana fruit smoothies for dinner :) My kids will love that! Happy Valentine's Day!
One of our all-time favorite winter activities is making snow ice cream. We've not been very fortunate in the snow department of late but when it does come we are sure to make some. Rather than repeat the recipe you can click here to see an older post about this fun and delicious treat.
Do you have any other "cool" ideas for snow food? Leave a comment below!
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I've been in the mood for making pumpkin cupcakes with my kids so I went on an online search for some simple cupcakes. I found some super cute and simple pumpkin theme cupcakes at Family Circle. You could even use a boxed mix if you wanted and just decorate with orange frosting but I think the pumpkin flavor would be great! Enjoy!
Pumpkin cupcakes!
I recently brought home a bunch of juicy red strawberries from the strawberry farm. We've been eating them everyday. I've been making jam, freezing strawberries, making smoothies, Popsicles, etc. I was looking for a strawberry muffin recipe and somehow I stumbled upon a really cool recipe for red, white and blue chocolate dipped strawberries. They are so cute and look yummy too. I think I'm going to give these a try for the Fourth of July. I know my girls would love to help me make them and they would for sure help eat them! Red, White and Blue Strawberries. Enjoy!
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and I found a quick and easy recipe for Irish Soda Bread to share with you. Check out this Irish Soda Bread from Family Fun. This would be a good recipe for the kids to help make. You can find more great St. Patrick's Day recipes by visiting this link to Family Fun.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Okay, well maybe I don't actually scream but my kids did start bouncing up and down shouting for joy when I told them we were going to make snow ice cream.
We had a lot of new snow and I knew that my kids would enjoy making and eating snow ice cream. It's really fun and easy to make. All that you need is clean snow, milk, vanilla extract and sugar. You can adjust the amounts to your liking. We made a lot because we wanted to test out some different flavors and we also wanted left-over ice cream. We put about 10 cups of clean snow into a big bowl (it melts fast when you bring it inside) and mixed in 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 1 cup of milk and about a 1/2 cup of sugar. We just mixed it all together with a spoon. You can adjust the amount of milk and snow until you get the consistency that you like and adjust the amount of sugar to your desired sweetness. We enjoyed the vanilla ice cream first and then we experimented with adding a little baking cocoa for chocolate ice cream. We placed our left over vanilla ice cream in the freezer.
Later in the day, my kids wanted to surprise daddy with our yummy after dinner dessert of snow ice cream. Our left-over ice cream still tasted great and we sprinkled "malted milk" on top for some extra goodness. If you haven't tried snow ice cream before, give it a try. It's easy and fun for the kids to make and even more fun to eat!
