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Cooking With Kids: Frozen Caterpillar

Frozen grapes on skewers decorated with raisins to look like caterpillars.

Encouraging  Speech & Creating Yum! Frozen Caterpillar

Ingredients

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(makes two caterpillars):

Instructions

Parent: Break a wooden skewer in two; clean off the ends so no small pieces of wood are sticking out.
Hand holding wooden skewers next to grapes and a bag of raisins.

Kiddo: Place 5-6 grapes on each skewer. Once done, place the skewers in a small bag and place into the freezer.

Hand threading frozen grapes onto a skewer for a caterpillar craft.

Grapes are placed on a skewer to create a frozen caterpillar.

Grapes threaded onto wooden skewers next to a bowl of grapes.

Kiddo: The next day, take the grapes from the freezer.

Two skewers of frozen grapes are placed inside a small bag.

Parent: Cut two raisins in half.

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Two frozen grape caterpillars with raisin eyes and wooden skewer bodies.

Kiddo: Push the open end of the raisin into the “head of the caterpillar.” It should have no issues sticking, since the grapes are so cold and the gooey part of the raisin just sticks on. Add the other “eye”. Do the same for the other caterpillar.

Language Time

Cold and Hot… time to talk about the things we eat or touch, or the places we go that are cold or hot. Some examples of questions could include:

– Where do you put food to stay cold?

– Where do you put food to make it hot?

– What foods do we eat cold?

– What foods do we eat hot?

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