Ants on a Log

Introduction

Make a healthy snack with your child while spelling.

Materials:

• Celery (1-2 stalks per child)
• Raisins
• *Peanut Butter (*For those children with peanut allergies, you can substitute with alternatives: cream cheese, peabutter, sunbutter, almond butter, taihini/sesame seed butter, soy butter)

Directions:

• With your child, separate the celery sticks.
• Carefully cut the ends of the celery sticks off (Adults only).
• Using a spoon, fill the inside of the celery with one of the above ingredients. Use a spoon to spread a layer of the peanut butter filling the celery.
• Have your child place the raisins on the celery and filling in a row.
• With the remaining raisins, have your child write the word ‘ANT’ out on the plate. If your child is younger, help him place the raisins so that they form the letters ‘A’, ‘N’, ‘T’.

Take it further:

Write your name:

• Have your child write her name on the plate with the raisins. Have your child write her initials on the plate.

Writing words:

• Have your child write other themed words. They can be names of foods or your child’s favorite subject in school.

Raisin alphabet:

• Have your child write the entire alphabet a piece of wax paper. Then, have your child write the vowels ‘A, E, I, O, U’ on the plate or wax paper.

Talk about it:

• Celery is a very healthy snack for kids to eat. What kind of other healthy snacks does your child like? Ask her about snacks that you could make together.