Practical Life! Making Pizza..

Lots of fun for my guy....

 

And tasty too... it's like art he can eat for lunch!

 

Frozen Banana Peanut Butter Pops

I have been wanting to make these for a while since I recently developed a greater liking of peanut butter than ever before (probably due to MD's obsession with PB & J sandwiches).  However, I wasn't so motivated because MD was on a 2 year strike of bananas along with other fruits and vegetables (except for avocado which he has never stopped eating).  But to my great joy, he has recently started eating bananas again and asking for them daily.  So I decided to finally make these pops.  Just spread peanut butter on banana, add a popsicle stick, and freeze.  I thought about adding honey and coating with nuts also, but I was in a hurry, so maybe next time.  They taste pretty good just like this.

Rainbow Cupcakes

We made rainbow cupcakes for our playgroup this week in honor of St. Patrick's and the whole rainbow thing. 

MD usually helps me out by adding the ingredients and stirring but he usually is scared of using the electric mixer.  This is the first time he used it and had fun with it. 

We mixed food coloring into the divided batter and then layered the batter colors into the cups to get the rainbow effect.  This idea came from Family Fun magazine.

I didn't get a picture but before serving you add a whipped cream "cloud" on top and they look really cute.  They were yummy!

Easy Educational St. Patrick's Day Treat

Here's another color mixing activity.  We mixed food coloring into white frosting to make yellow and blue.  And put it on a graham cracker. 

Then we spread the frosting and combined the colors until they turned green!

Sprinkled with candy clover sprinkes.

And enjoyed them.

Faux Ice Cream

Problem:  No ice cream in the house.

Solution:  Dark chocolate pudding cones!

His Own Spooning Work

Someone's been busy serving himself his own breakfast these days. 

When he chooses to have cereal for breakfast, he quickly grabs the box, a bowl, and spoon, and begins doing some serious spooning work from cereal bag to bowl.

When he's done I offer him to add milk to it but he's been turning it down lately and simply eats his dry cereal with his spoon.

Valentine Treats & Valentine Numbers

We made Valentine themed bagels.  Mini whole wheat bagels topped with light cream cheese, no sugar added strawberry preserves, and a few red sugar sprinkles.  MD was so excited because he thought he was making and eating jelly donuts.  I told him they were bagels but he was too excited to listen to me.  He happily ate his yummy treat with a big smile on his face.

I've seen this number ordering activity many times at Chasing Cheerios and decided to give it a try.  MD preferred to put the foam heart numbers over the numbers I wrote on the piece of paper instead of below them.  It was quick and easy to put together and he enjoyed it. 

ABC Treat

MD prepared himself this snack the other day. Usually he grabs a plate, but he found my mini muffin tray that I had just cleaned  and placed near his reach (not on purpose).  I thought it was cute.  He looked at it for a long time and named the letters before eating them.