Adventurous Snacks

S’mores at Home

Materials: Marshmallows, chocolate, graham crackers, microwavable plate, microwave
Traditional S’mores:
- Get a microwavable plate and place a half of graham cracker on the plate, then chocolate (Hersey’s 3 pips), and lastly add the marshmallow to the top.
- Microwave for approximately 5-10 seconds (depending on strength of microwave). Marshmallow will expand rapidly, too long in microwave and it will explode leaving you with a sticky mess.
- Finally take S’more out of microwave and place the other half of the graham cracker on top. Eat and enjoy!
Extreme S’mores:
- Same steps but substitute different kinds of chocolates.
- Get the fun size candy bars: Kit Kat, Snickers, Reeses, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, etc. add them instead of plain chocolates.

Banana Boats at Home

Materials: bananas, chocolate chips, tiny marshmallows, foil, oven or toaster oven
Banana Boats:
- Get a roughly 6x6 inch square piece of foil
- Peal banana and place it on foil, cut it long ways to make your boat
- Add chocolate chips and tiny marshmallows into the boat, alternate chocolate chips and tiny marshmallows from end to end of the banana
- Wrap foil loosely around banana. If you close it tight around your banana all the chocolate and marshmallows will stick to the foil.
- Place in oven or toaster oven at 300 degrees for about 10 minutes. Check buy opening foil to see if everything is melted after 5 minutes, and then every 2 minutes till melted.
- When finished melting, take banana out of foil and put on plate, allow to cool a bit. Use a fork or fingers to enjoy this gooey snack!

Dirt Pudding

Materials: one pack of chocolate pudding mix, 2 cups of milk, 8oz. Cool Whip, 15-20 Oreos, bag of gummy worms, large mixing bowl, Ziploc baggie
Instructions:
- Stir pudding mix and milk in large mixing bowl, let stand for about 5 minutes.
- Put Oreos into Ziploc baggie, beat cookies into crumbles (should make about 1.5-2 cups of crumbles)
- Add Cool Whip and 1 cup of cookie crumbles to large mixing bowl
- You can leave in mixing bowl OR put in serving bowl/pan OR individual cups
- Sprinkle the rest of the cookie crumbles on top
- Refrigerate for 1 hour
- Add gummy worms to the top
- Serve and enjoy some Dirt Pudding!

Trail Mix

Materials: Individual lunch containers, a variety of nuts (almonds, cashews, pecans, walnut, peanut, sunflower seeds), chocolate chips or M&Ms, raisins, craisins, & other dried fruit.
Instructions:
- Gather supplies and add a little bit of everything to your container.
- Take it will you when you go for a walk to enjoy a snack on the go.

Ants on a Log

Materials: celery (log), raisins (ants), peanut butter (gooey filling)
Traditional Ants on a Log
- Take cut of celery, roughly 3-4 inches long.
- Spread peanut butter in the arch of the celery.
- Place several raisins on top of the peanut butter.
- Eat and enjoy!
Adventurous versions of Ants on a Log – mix and match to satisfy your taste buds
- Items that can be used as a ‘Log’:
  - Carrots
  - Apple wedges
  - Cucumber slices (long ways or circles “stumps”)
  - Banana slices (long ways or circles “stumps”)
  - Pretzel stick
- Items that can be used as the filling:
  - Any nut butter
  - Cream cheese
  - Yogurt
  - Avocado or guacamole
  - Hummus
- Items that can be used as ‘ants’:
  - Raisins
  - Craisins
  - Nuts or seeds
  - Grapes
  - Tomatoes
  - Blueberries
  - Peaches cut into tiny pieces
  - Bananas cut into half slices
  - Pretzel fish or goldfish crackers

Insect / Spider Crackers

Materials: Crackers, pretzel sticks/carrot stick slices, peanut butter(nut butter)/cream cheese, seeds (sunflower seeds) / nuts (almonds)
Pick what insect or spider you want to build:
Insects have 3 body parts, 6 legs, 2 antennae
- Insect: 6 crackers, 8 pretzel sticks, peanut butter
- Place 3 crackers in a row and spread peanut butter over them
- Overlap the crackers so that they stick together
- Place the 6 leg pretzels sticking out the side of the middle cracker
- Place the 2 antennae pretzels sticking out of the front of the first cracker
- Place 3 crackers on top of the original 3 crackers
- Extra: add sunflower seeds for eyes
Spider: 4 crackers, 8 pretzels, peanut butter
- Place 2 crackers in a row and spread peanut butter over them
- Overlap the crackers so that they stick together
- Place the 8 leg pretzels sticking out the side of the first cracker
- Place 2 crackers on top of original 2 crackers
- Extra: add sunflower seeds for eyes and fangs
Caterpillar: 12 crackers, 6 pretzels, peanut butter, 6 nuts (almonds)
- Place 6 crackers in a row and spread peanut butter over them
- Overlap the crackers so that they stick together
- Place the 6 leg pretzels sticking out the side of the second cracker
- Place the 6 nuts (false legs) sticking out the sides of the last 3 crackers, 2 nuts per cracker
- Place 6 crackers on top of the original 6 crackers
- Extra: add sunflower seeds for eyes