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Breakfast Smoothies for Kids with BlendJet Portable Blender

Breakfast Smoothies for Kids with BlendJet Portable Blender

September 4, 2024 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

These breakfast smoothies for kids are simple and quick to make. They provide protein and vitamins making a great option in the mornings. Another school year is upon us, which means that mornings are chaos. Trying to pry my kids out of bed and get them ready for school on

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sponsored Work Tagged With: recipes for kids, smoothie recipes

10+ Summer Snacks for Kids

10+ Summer Snacks for Kids

April 17, 2020 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

These Summer snacks for kids have fun themes such as beach, fruit, farms and orchards and more! Kids will love to create these yummy treats.  Summer is such a fun time to to stay at home, craft and create. Making fun themed snacks is a great way to get children

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Filed Under: Recipes, Summer

Color-Changing Violet Lemonade: STEM in the Kitchen for Kids

Color-Changing Violet Lemonade: STEM in the Kitchen for Kids

May 3, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Turn Violet water made from freshly-picked flowers into Violet lemonade in this fun color-changing science experiment for kids. It’s tasty too! We love nature activities, and we love science and experimentation, so this color-changing Violet lemonade has been one of our favorites yet! We can’t go for a walk or

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Filed Under: Outdoors, Recipes, Spring, Summer

Tic-Tac-Toe Valentine’s Day Treat

Tic-Tac-Toe Valentine’s Day Treat

January 24, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This Valentine’s Day treat is simple to make and fun to play with! Perfect for a Valentine’s Day party or an after-school snack.   Need a fun and festive Valentine’s Day treat? These Graham cracker tic tac toe treats are simple for kids to make, and they can even play

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Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes, Valentine's Day

Easy Thanksgiving Snacks to WOW the Kids In Your Life

Easy Thanksgiving Snacks to WOW the Kids In Your Life

October 23, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

These Thanksgiving snacks are SO cute! And my favorite part? There is zero cooking or food prep involved, simply dress up some pre-made snacks, and voila, Thanksgiving snacks are complete. I mean  I love to cook, but some days…simple is best.   Simple Thanksgiving Snacks that Wow These Thanksgiving snacks

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Filed Under: Fall, Holidays, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: thanksgiving

Monster Halloween Treats for Kids

Monster Halloween Treats for Kids

October 16, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by Welch’s® Fruit Snacks. I am being compensated for this post. All comments and opinions are my own.  Halloween is such a fun time of year for kids! From dressing up in costumes, to trick or treating, to celebrating with a kids’ party, children and adults

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Filed Under: Halloween, Holidays, Recipes

Apple Snacks for Kids

Apple Snacks for Kids

September 12, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  We have been doing apple crafts, apple science, apple sticky walls, and more! My kids adore apple picking, and I do as well, so here is a list of yummy apple snacks for kids that you can whip up after a day at the orchard! Apple Snacks for Kids

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Filed Under: Fall, Recipes

Edible Flower Bark: Healthy Yogurt Bark that Kids Can Make!

Edible Flower Bark: Healthy Yogurt Bark that Kids Can Make!

April 18, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

My kids LOVED making this edible flower bark! Not only was it tasty (and healthy), but there are so many fine motor and math skills to work on with kids in the kitchen! If you are having a hard time finding edible flowers, you can opt for some dried ones

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Filed Under: Learn Through Play, Recipes, Spring

Healthy Cat in the Hat Inspired Popsicles

Healthy Cat in the Hat Inspired Popsicles

February 27, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone 2 Comments

These healthy Cat in the Hat inspired popsicles are the perfect treat on a hot day, or when celebrating Dr. Seuss! The iconic layers of red and white instantly make me think of the well-known hat from some of our favorite books. As part of this week’s Virtual Book Club

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: cat in the hat, dr. seuss, party, preschool, treats

Healthy Forest Tree Snack to eat with the Gruffalo

Healthy Forest Tree Snack to eat with the Gruffalo

February 20, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

For this week’s Virtual Book club for kids, we read the Gruffalo! Such a fun book for kids to read, and it’s one of our favorites. We have done some forest painting and even a forest sensory bin in the past, so I thought this time we would go with

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Filed Under: Learn Through Play, Recipes Tagged With: forest, grapes, healthy, pretzels, snacks

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