Earth Day is upon us and one wonderful way to get the conversation started with your kids is through food. Today on Family Food Live I will make 5 Earth Day Treats Kids will Love!
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And now on to today’s recipes:
Earth Day Dirty Worms
Shopping List:
- Chocolate Pudding, instant
- Milk
- Whipped Cream (optional)
- Oreos
- Gummy Worms
- Clear Plastic Cups
Instructions:
- Follow instructions to prepare the chocolate pudding
- Combine the chocolate pudding with a scoop of whipped cream (depending how light you want the dirt – this is optional)
- Meantime, crush about 10-15 Oreo cookies in a plastic bag
- Using a clear plastic cup, start layering the chocolate pudding and Oreos – the Oreos will ask as the top dirt
- Add the gummy worms on top
Earth Cupcakes
Shopping List:
- White cake mix (need eggs, oil and water) *I mistakenly used vanilla so my colors were off*
- Vanilla frosting
- Blue and Green organic food coloring
Instructions:
- Follow instructions to make the vanilla cake mix
- Separate it into two separate bowls
- Add several drops of blue food coloring to one bowl and several drops of green to the other bowl and mix
- Scoop out a little of the blue mix and green mix into a cupcake liner
- Bake the cupcakes according to directions
- Meantime in a separate bowl, scoop out vanilla frosting and add several drops of green food coloring and mix
- Add the frosting to each cupcake when cooled
Earth Day Popcorn
Shopping List:
- 12 cups popped popcorn
- 5 tablespoons Butter
- 1/2 cup Light Corn Syrup
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 package Lemon-Lime Kool-Aid
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees
- In a saucepan, melt butter, corn syrup and sugar together. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer
- Remove from heat and add Kool-Aid, baking soda and green food coloring – mix
- Pour over popcorn and mix together
- Spread popcorn out on a baking sheet and put in oven for 40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes
- Cool and break into pieces before eating
Thanks to Simple as That Blog for this cool idea
Pretzel Trees
Shopping List:
- Oreos
- Large Marshmallows
- Pretzel Sticks
- Clear Plastic Cups
- Green Sugar Sprinkles
- Water
Instructions:
- In a plastic bag, crush about 20 Oreos
- Put Oreos in a clear plastic cup to act as the dirt
- Meantime cut the marshmallow in half and add a pretzel stick to the bottom
- Dip the marshmallow in water and then in the green sprinkles
- Put the tree into the Oreos (dirt)
Earth Day Smoothie for Kids
Shopping List:
- 1/2 cup Coconut Water
- 1 Cup Plain Yogurt
- 1 Cup Frozen Mangos
- 1 Cup Frozen Strawberries
- 2 Bananas
- 2 Cups Kale
Instructions:
- Add the water and yogurt into the blender.
- Then add the mango, strawberries, banana and kale
- Blend and pour
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