Brontosaurus
Bites
Ingredients:
4 cups popped popcorn
2 cups mini dinosaur grahams
2 cups corn cereal squares
1 1/2 cup dried pineapple wedges
1 (6 oz.) pkg. dried fruit bits
Butter flavored non-stick cooking spray
1 Tbsp. plus 1 1/2 tsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 cup yogurt covered raisins
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine popcorn, grahams, cereal,
pineapple,
and fruit bits in large bowl; mix lightly. Transfer to 15 x 10
inch
jellyroll pan. Spray mixture generously with cooking spray.
Combine sugar,
cinnamon, and nutmeg in small bowl. Sprinkle 1/2 of the
sugar mixture over popcorn mixture; toss lightly to coat. Spray
mixture
again with additional cooking spray. Add remaining sugar
mixture, mix lightly.
Bake snack mix 10
minutes, stirring after 5 minutes. Cool completely in
pan on wire rack. Add raisins; mix lightly. Makes 12 (3/4 cup)
servings.
Dinosaur Toast
Toast wheat bread.
Use dinosaur cookie
cutters to cut bread into dinosaur shapes.
Stegasaurus
Sandwiches
Make triangular
shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Add triangular tortilla chips for his spikes. A half a banana
cut lengthwise for the neck and raisins for eyes.
Dinosaur Bones
Make soft pretzel
dough and let each child shape a bone. Bake; then eat.
Or use canned biscuits which can also be rolled into dinosaur
shaped bones.
Variation:
1 stick margarine
6 c Crispix cereal
1 c. cocktail peanuts or mixed nuts
2 C. pretzel sticks
1 t. seasoning salt
2 t. worchestershire sauce
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Melt the margarine in a 15" by 1O"x
2"pan.
Remove the pan from the oven. Stir in seasoning soft and
worchestershire
sauce. Add cereal, nuts and pretzels. Mix to coat Bake 1 hour
stirring
frequently. Spread on paper towels to cool.
Deviled
Dinosaur Eggs
Make them the same
as you would regular deviled eggs.
Explain to the children that dinosaurs laid eggs.
Dinosaur Dip
Mix instant
pistachio pudding mix according to the directions on the package.
Cut fruit into bite size pieces. Dip fruit and marshmallows
into pudding
and use as a dip. Or let children dip graham crackers in the
dinosaur dip.
Dinosaur Dirt
Digs
Mix instant
chocolate pudding with white chocolate chips and place
in a clear plastic cup. Top off with crushed cookie crumbs. Have
the
children pretend they are going on a dinosaur dirt dig and
finding dinosaur
bones (the white chocolate chips). Their spoons are their
shovels.
T-Rex Teeth
Cut bananas in half,
spread with melted butterscotch chips,
and dip in graham crackers.
Celery and
Smoked Sausage
Let children taste
both celery and smoked sausage. Discuss meat and
plant eaters and that some dinosaurs ate meat and others didn't.
Ask children what type of eaters they would be considered.
Dinosaur Chow
Mix the following
ingredients:
1/4 cup dirt (cocoa),
1/2 cup swamp water (milk with green food coloring),
2 cups crushed bones (sugar),
1/2 cup fat (butter)
Procedure:
Boil above ingredients for 3 minutes then add 2 cups dead grass
(uncooked oatmeal) and 1/2 cup squashed bugs (peanut butter)
stir till melted. Remove from heat and stir until it starts to
thicken.
Drop by tablespoons onto waxed paper. Let cool.
Dino Eggs
Hard boil eggs.
After they are cooked...crack them...leave the shells on.
Put the cracked hard boiled egg in food coloring with water, or
Easter
Egg color (still in the shell). Leave for a few min. Remove from
color
and peel the shell... the color has taken where the crack
in the shell was while the rest stay white.
Jell-O
Dinosaur Eggs
Make Jell-O dinosaur
eggs. Use the Jell-O Easter egg
molds and put a fruit dinosaur snack in the middle!
Stegosaurus
Tail Snack
To make, give each
child one quarter of a banana on a plate. Allow them to
spread peanut butter on the curved side of the banana; then place
a row of
candy corns in the peanut butter to resemble stegosaurus spikes.
If desired,
add a dash of "swamp grass" by sprinkling green-tinted coconut
around the banana.
Stegosaurus
Salad
Mix together the
following:
twigs: 5-7 stick pretzels
leaves: 3-5 lettuce leaves
grass: handful of sprouts
hot lava: spoonful of dressing.
Watermelon
Dinosaur Egg
Materials Needed:
Large watermelon
Brown/Green Tempera paint (mixed thick)
Procedure:
Paint watermelon, allow it
to dry, and then hide the egg on the playground.
Let children search for the egg. Not sure if the watermelon
is still edible once you paint it...use your own judgement.
Swampy Salad
2 cups applesauce
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
Mix everything together in a medium bowl. Pretend you are a
Brachiosaurus hiding in a swamp from a fierce meat-eating
dinosaur.
Dinosaur
Crumble
Gather a package of
graham crackers and chewy candy dinos.
Crumble the crackers and mix in candy. Place a scoop of the
mixture
in a cup for each child and using a spoon they have to hunt for
dinos.
Stone Age
Shakes
(Frosty banana
milkshakes)
Prep time: 15 min.
2 C milk
2 ripe bananas
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 pt vanilla frozen low-fat yogurt
Mix all in blender and pour into paper cups.
For that added touch, add green food coloring.
Dinosaur
Dressing Dip
Ranch dressing
tinted with green food coloring and an assortment of fresh
vegetables.
Edible Volcano
Buy a box of ice
cream cones and have each child bite off the tip.
Let the children drizzle frosting in red, orange, and yellow for
"lava" coming down the sides. Set the volcano in chocolate
pudding
(for the land) and add gummy dinosaurs around the base.