Beach Snack

Use cups and have the kids crush vanilla wafers and mix
 them in vanilla pudding. Then place the mixture in the cups.

Variation:  Use graham crackers or vanilla cookies  instead of vanilla wafers.

Shells and Sand

Boil shell macaroni until tender, drain, have children add
 butter or margarine and then add parmesan cheese.

Pasta Shells

Cook pasta shells according to the package directions.
Then try one of these ideas.  Place the shells in small bowls and let
your children spoon on pasta sauce and grated cheese. Allow the shells
 to cool, add chopped veggies, and toss with a favorite salad dressing.

Beach Cake

Bake cupcakes. Frost with blue tinted icing.  Dip half of cupcake in crushed
vanilla wafers to create a 'beach'.  Add a little cocktail umbrella as a finishing touch

Beach Bunt Cake

Bake a bunt cake... frost with sand colored icing.  Pour blue icing in center
 of bunt cake for the ocean.  Using toothpicks, paint swimsuits/swim trunks
 onto teddy grahams and place them on the beach or in the ocean.  Use white
 life saver mints as life preservers... break off a teddy grahams legs and place
 on "life preserver".  Using icing, make beach towels in the sand and so on.

Sand Dollar Cookies

Use a basic cookie dough recipe or refrigerated dough.  Give each child some cookie
 dough and have them shape their own cookie in the shape of a sand dollar before baking.

Beach Ball Toast

Begin by making colored milk by adding a drop or two of
 food coloring to several separate containers of milk.
  Place a small, clean paintbrush in each color of milk.
  To make a piece of beach ball toast, a child uses a
 biscuit cutter to cut a circle from a slice of bread.
  Then he/she decorates the bread circle with
 any colors of milk he/she chooses, making stripes
 or dots or any other beach ball design.  Toast the
 decorated bread circles in a toaster oven; then serve each one
 with a splash of "water" - a dollop of blue tinted cream cheese.

Beach in a Bag

Give each child a small ziploc bag.  Set out in bowls the following
ingredients. Put a spoon in each bowl, and let the children transfer a
spoonful to their bag. Serve with water!

Dry chow mein noodles- (seaweed)
Pretzel sticks-(driftwood)
Goldfish Crackers- (fish)
Granola-(sand)
Cheerios- (life preservers)
Dried Apricots- (beach towels)
Raisins- (stones)

Seaside Snack

Materials Needed:
Cream Cheese
Blue food coloring
Crackers
Craft stick or plastic spoon

Directions:
Invite the children to mix the cream cheese with the blue coloring.
 An adult may need to put the cream cheese in small bowls and
 add a few drops of the blue coloring. Provide crackers , fish
 crackers and small craft sticks or spoons to spread the blue cream.