Snack crafts

These healthy candy bracelets are such a simple craft for kids. Collect your favourite assortment of dried goods and let them create their own edible jewellery. You might have to help a bit with poking everything through the needle, but they’ll have lots of fun creating patterns, pulling it all onto the string and testing the new flavours. And of course, at the end, they’ll have something beautiful to show off!

Kids love hanging around in the kitchen “helping”, and they also love crafting. So pairing the two together to keep little ones busy, and reaping the rewards of their crafting work is a match made in heaven. It’s nice when children can begin to learn the basics around cooking and baking, and some of these […]

An easy school snack perfect for celebrating back-to-school, 100 days, the last day, classroom parties, bake sale, or afternoon snack!

Graham Cracker Rainbow Weather Snack, fun to after school or pre schoolers!

These fun and healthy Christmas snacks for kids are perfect for a Christmas party and easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to make!

These fun food art ideas and recipes will keep the kiddos busy in the kitchen, being creative and creating their own healthy treats with California produce!

Do you have crazy picky eaters at home? I swear, if I let them, my kids would eat nothing but licorice and milk. We're making some progress with the whole 'If you're hungry enough for candy, you're hungry enough to eat your dinner' strategy, but it's always a struggle. It doesn't matter if I make super simple kid food, or regular old grown up food, one of the kids always complains and refuses to eat it. Isn't that always how it goes?! Way back when I started this blog, I wrote a post with a…

We've taken the guesswork out of figuring out which packaged snacks you can and can't send into a peanut-free lunchroom, with a monster list of goodies—some tried and true, some brand new—all of which are totally peanut-free and delicious.