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    Adventurous Snacks

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    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
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