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Cooking With Kids: Scary Apple Faces

Apple halves topped with peanut butter and chocolate chips arranged into two distinct, fun faces.

Scary Apple Faces

Encouraging Speech & Creating Yum!

This recipe is a fun way to eat a healthy, after school snack and a chance to get creative. There is no right or wrong way to do it, so enjoy making it and eating it!

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Ingredients:

1 apple (any kind you like)

2 tablespoons of peanut butter

7 – 8 chocolate chips

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Instructions:

Parent: Cut the apple in half and core out the seeds.

Knife cutting an apple in half on a counter.

Hands core an apple half with a fork over a white bowl to make a scary face.

Apple cut in half with seeds cored out, resting on a white plate.

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Kiddo: Spread the peanut butter on the cut, flat surface of the apple. Arrange the chocolate chips to make a fun face and use the other half of the apple to cut out parts for the face.

Hands holding an apple half while a spoon spreads peanut butter on it.

Apple pieces on a speckled surface

Apple half with peanut butter, chocolate chip face, and apple slice ears on a white plate

Speech and Language Time:

This could be a great activity to do with a kiddo who needs to work on pragmatic (social) language skills. Have them create the happy face and ask them what makes someone happy? What are three things that make him/her happy? Use it as a time to talk about feelings and make different faces, have them guess what emotion you are trying to display.

 

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