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Cooking with Kids
Fun Food Ideas to Make with Your Kids
By Kendeyl Johansen
To make the ant logs, have your child spread peanut butter across each celery and carrot stick with the knife. Sprinkle raisin "ants" on top of the peanut butter. Press lightly on the raisins to make them stick. Arrange your logs on plates.
You'll need:
| Butter knife | |
| Cutting board or plastic plate | |
| 4 plates (May use same plate as Ant Logs) | |
| 2 hot dogs | |
| 2 sticks of string cheese | |
| Mustard | |
| Thin pretzel sticks |
Place hot dogs and cheese sticks on cutting board. Have your child cut the hot dogs and cheese in half horizontally. (Always remember to supervise knife use by children.) For each caterpillar you'll need half a hot dog and half a cheese stick, but you may want to add more meat and cheese for bigger appetites. Ask your child to cut the hot dog and cheese halves into bite-sized pieces by again cutting horizontally.
Place a hot dog piece onto a plate and create a line by placing alternate slices of cheese and hotdog behind it. Your resulting "caterpillar" will be the length of an uncut hotdog.
Add feet by placing pretzel sticks perpendicular to the hotdog slices. Dot mustard on front hotdog to create eyes.