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Dino Diner Snacks

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Encouraging kids to eat healthy doesn't have to be dull.  Here are some suggestions to make it a treat to make and eat!

When kids get to create their own snacks they tend to eat them too!  It's a great opportunity to introduce some new tastes with some old favorites.   When your children are confronted with something new, encourage them to just try it.  Honor their opinion, not everyone, even adults, like the same foods.  That way you're not incurring battles over food they won't eat and they may find foods they love.  Also allowing them to make the snack themselves gives them a sense of accomplishment and builds confidence in their own abilities.

Snack Tips:


  1. You can either select one of the Dino Diner Snacks from the picture cards that you have the ingredients for or let your child pick from the Dino Diner Snack Cards. The list of foods are suggestions, but be sure to substitute other foods when there are allergies.

    Dino Diner Snacks
    Tyrannosaurus Rex Snack

    Tyrannosaurus Rex Snack

    Dinosaur Tracks Snack

    Dinosaur Tracks Snack
    Cards (PDF)* Cards (PDF)*

    Erupting Volcanoes Snack

    Erupting Volcano Snack

    Paradise in Dino Land Snack

    Paradise in Dino
    Land Snack
    Cards (PDF)* Cards (PDF)*
    * You can edit the pdf files if you would like to change the ingredients.

  2. Depending on how old your daughter is,
    • she can help prepare the ingredients.  She can, for example; wash the fruits, get out the bread and slice the banana with a plastic knife.
    • or you can have all the ingredients ready, lined up in order of how they should be added to the creation along with the picture cards.  The picture cards are helpful for children to get the idea of following directions in a set order.
  3. Line up the snack cards from left to right, doing it this way helps any future reader become familiar and comfortable with the direction when reading. parent tip tracking left to right
    place pretzels on a plate to make the trunk of a palm tree
    First: Pretzels

    		 put apple slices at the top of the trunk for palm leaves
    Second: Apple Slices    		 add a piece of celery that looks like a fern
    Third: Celery
    line up snack cards left to right

    It's not important if the end results don't look like the picture card.  The cards are to be used only as a guide not the only way the end result might look.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex Snack

Materials:
bread, pita, graham cracker or rice cake
peanut butter or cheese slices
banana or apple slices
raisin or sunflower seed
jelly - grape or strawberry
pretzels
plastic knife
Tyrannosaurus Rex Snack Cards (PDF)*
* You can edit the pdf files if you would like to change the ingredients.
Tyrannosaurus Rex Snack
  1. Start with a piece of bread (pita, graham cracker or rice cake) and cover it with peanut butter, cheese slices, or …
  2. Place a banana (or apple) slice on the bread for the eye.
  3. Place a raisin or sunflower seed on the banana slice to make the pupil in the eye.
  4. Spread jelly on the bottom half of the bread for the inside of the mouth.
  5. Lay pretzels down to represent the mouth.
  6. Make teeth with banana slices cut into triangles, slices of celery or cashews.  Anything that you think looks like teeth.

    Now open your mouth really big and eat that T-Rex!

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Dinosaur Tracks Snack

Materials:
bread, pita or rice cake
peanut butter, hummus or cheese slices
graham cracker
plastic reclosable bag
banana
plastic knife
raisins or carrot slices
Dinosaur Tracks Snack Cards (PDF)*
* You can edit the pdf files if you would like to change the ingredients.
dinosaur tracks snack
  1. Start with a graham cracker (pita, bread or rice cake) and cover it with peanut butter, hummus or cheese.
  2. Put a graham cracker in a plastic reclosable bag, remove most of the air, and seal it.
  3. Take a rolling pin or the back of a large spoon and crush the graham cracker.
  4. Sprinkle the graham cracker pieces on the peanut butter to look like rocks and dirt.
  5. Cut the banana into slices for the tracks.
  6. Place slices of banana across the surface for the tracks.
  7. You can use banana slices (raisins or carrot slices) cut up for the toe prints.

    Now eat your way across the path as you follow that dinosaur!

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Erupting Volcano Snack

Materials:
bread, pita, graham cracker or rice cake
hummus or peanut butter
jelly - grape or strawberry or any dark colored jelly
raisins, nuts (cashews) or sun flower seeds
Erupting Volcano Snack Cards (PDF)*
* You can edit the pdf files if you would like to change the ingredients.
Erupting Volcano Snack
  1. Start with a piece of pita bread (bread, graham cracker or rice cake) and cover it with peanut butter (or hummus) in the shape of a wide cone.
  2. Use the jelly as lava, have it flow down the side of the volcano.
  3. Place raisins, nuts or sun flower seeds as rocks along the volcano's surface.

    Careful while you're eating it not to get too hot!

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Paradise in Dino Land Snack

Materials:
plate or bread
6 pretzels
leaves of lettuce, apple slices or orange slices
celery
Paradise in Dino Land Snack Cards (PDF)*
* You can edit the pdf files if you would like to change the ingredients.
Paradise in Dino Land Snack
  1. On a plate or a piece of bread, use 6 pretzels for the trunk of a palm tree.
  2. For the palm leaves you can use: leaves of lettuce, apple slices, orange slices.
  3. Take a piece of celery and cut thin slices at one end without cutting them off. Then soak in cold water for a minute and see it fan out.
  4. Put it next to the palm tree like a fern.

    Welcome to your own jungle! 

 


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Re-enforcement Activities:

For a fun treat, check out Family Fun's dinosaur inspired cake!


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