If there is one thing that most parents are interested in doing for their children, it’s teaching them to eat a healthy diet. When children eat healthy at a young age, it is often something that sticks with them for the rest of their life. Unfortunately, many children don’t enjoy eating vegetables but that is about to change.
If you have a picky eater or if you just want to introduce some healthy eating to your children, these fruit and vegetable bug snacks are the perfect way to do it. They take almost no time to put together but they are so much fun, children can’t resist them. It is perfect for snacking between meals or for giving your children something healthy when they get home from school. Make them once and your kids will want them over and over again.
Ingredients:
For the snails
Celery stalks
Peanut butter or cream cheese, at room temperature
Sliced apple
Sliced orange
Sliced kiwi
sliced cucumber
Grape tomatoes
Cashews
For the caterpillars
Celery stalks
Peanut butter or cream cheese, at room temperature
Grapes
Blueberries
Grape tomatoes
Candy eyes
Celery matchsticks
Directions:
To make the snails, fill celery stalks with peanut butter or cream cheese and top with an apple, orange, kiwi, cucumber or tomato shell and a cashew head.
Use peanut butter or cream cheese to glue on candy eyes.
To make the caterpillars, fill celery stalks with peanut butter or cream cheese and top with grapes, blueberries or grape tomatoes for the body and head.
Use peanut butter or cream cheese to glue on candy eyes and celery matchstick for antennae.