My son is the snack friend at his preschool on wednesday and they are having a theme day that day too. The theme is Blast off day and they have been learning about outer space and rockets and aliens. I could really use some help with snack ideas that would support this theme. There is a peanut allergy in the room and the snack needs to be store bought.
Thanks in advance for your help.
L.
You could get cupcakes or a cake made with that theme on it. If you go down the snack isle or cereal isle you might be able to find a snack with that theme as well. You could get a bag with that theme to put the snack in it.
How about freeze dried apples? They sell big packs of them at Costco.
Just off the top of my head, take a bannana & cut in half. place cut part on plate..voila, rocket. Also, apple juice looks like gas or rocket fuel for sure. Marshmellows could be moon rocks...although not healthy at all. Hard boiled eggs, cut length wise & yolk scooped out could be space ships! Or put squared off toothpicks through front & back & add a small marshmellows for tires then you have a moon buggy. Oh, just saw where they need to be store bought. grapes could be alien eggs. hope this helps...
I would check the cracker and/or cereal aisles of the store and see if there are any that are star shaped.
The only other thing that came to mind was to send Tang if you are supposed to supply a drink as well. Didn't they use to advertise that the astronauts drank Tang?
Maybe send in something round (crackers, rice cakes, cookies, etc.) and then also something long and thin like licorice laces and let the kids make saturn...wrap the licorice lace around the cracker like the planet's rings.
Jello cups could be alien slime.
Ok this one is a stretch but you could bring those Gogurt yogurt pouches and explain how astronauts have to eat food that comes in little pouches so that it stays fresh and doesn't fly around on the ship.
Not very nutritious but you could always send Moon Pies.
Good luck,
K.
why don't you by the fruit snacks from Toy Story?
Make some sugar cookies in shapes of aliens, rockets and planets. Let your little man decorate them for the class. Otherwise go to bakery to see if they can make you some there. :) We did that for our little girl. We went to a local bakery and asked if they could make some flower cookies and some teapot cookies for my daughters tea party play date. It was a huge hit.
I know they make cheese snacks in the shapes of moons and stars. That might work.
Not sure if you are near a Trader Joe's store...but they have "freeze dried fruit." This is not like dried fruit or fruit roll-ups...but freeze dried so it has the texture of styrofoam...but freeze dried food is what astronauts actually do eat...and the mango, bananas, and strawberries are GREAT. My son actually requested we buy some for his treat day today. It is really novel and yummy!
What about mini rice cakes, they kind of look like the surface of the moon, plus they're round like the moon. They have lots of flavors and they are actually really good. You could also get cheese, because after all, the moon is made of cheese! ;) What about Sun Chips? Donut holes and mini donuts for Saturn and its rings?? You could actually set the hole on top of the donut for effect? I hate to suggest something sugary, but you could also send cheese too. Oooh, what about crescent rolls or croissants (moon shaped)?
This is really hard! I am a girl always after a theme, but because it has to be store bought it really throws a wrench in it! Good luck!
