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In the Kitchen

Kids in the Kitchen: Apple Dip

Happy Friday Night!  The girls and I wanted to share a sweet and yummy dip to serve with sliced apples. We love making this apple dip for parties or playdates – or Friday afternoons!

Apple Dip

8-oz package of cream cheese, softened
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Mix ingredients till creamy (We use our [...]

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Marshmallow Bunnies

The girls made these sweet and simple marshmallow bunnies this morning – the making was just as fun as the tasting!
Way back in December, I saw a post at Planning With Kids showing how to make cute Christmas trees with mini marshmallows and white chocolate. We never got around to making the trees, and I [...]

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Simple Holiday Traditions

~ making birdseed pine cones ~

~ decorating graham cracker candy houses with cousins ~

~ cutting lots and lots of paper snowflakes ~

~ making (and eating!) Holiday Pretzel Treats ~

I was feeling a little badly that we haven’t done many of the “new” Christmas crafts or activities that I had planned this year – but, of [...]

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Reindeer Cookies

I was browsing through some old Christmas photos (look at little 3-year-old Natalie!) and found some pictures of these cute reindeer cookies we made.  This was obviously a time in my life prior to blogging, because I didn’t even take a dozen close-ups of the finished cookies!  They are simple, though – I think you’ll [...]

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Kid-Made Centerpieces

Meet our new centerpiece basket:

The girls enjoy creating little table centerpieces for dinner each night.  They are so proud of their lovely creations!  After a few days of trying to meet their requests for vases, fabric, bowls, etc. during dinner prep, I decided to put a bunch of goodies in basket.  I went around the [...]

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Whoooo Wants a Snack?

Natalie found this cute recipe in her recent Your Big Backyard magazine and got right to work making it for a snack.

Natalie adapted the recipe a bit – she used chocolate chips for the eye centers and the brow line.  Also, an apple slice was used for the beak instead of the cheese – Natalie [...]

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Lazy Summer Lunches

This post could have been called ‘Encouraging Independence in the Kitchen’ or ‘Lunches Young Kids Can Make,’ but let’s be honest – I am simply feeling lazy about fixing lunches now that summer vacation has hit our house! Here are some ideas that are working for us, and many of them do have the [...]

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Nutrition Fun for Kids

March is National Nutrition Month! This is a great time to spend some extra time cooking healthy foods with your little ones. One of our plans for the month of March is to choose a new fruit or vegetable from the grocery store each week and try it – Natalie has had her eye [...]

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Roll-a-Snack

When the pantry starts to fill-up with various odd and ends of crackers, cereal, raisins, etc., we like to dump it all together into a yummy snack mix.  Sometimes, we even make it into a game – a little math with your snack!

I call it Roll-a-Snack.  All you need are various snacks (nuts, dried fruit, [...]

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Chocolate Letters

Last night I experimented with making chocolate letters in the Letter Ice silicone molds.  They turned out so cute!  I just used milk chocolate chips, which I melted in the microwave.  I filled the molds almost to the top, then topped them off with some festive sprinkles.  I let them set-up in the fridge for [...]

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