Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Giraffe Snack


We have been reading On Noah's Ark by Jan Brett.  In this book, Jan Brett imagines Noah's granddaughter on the ark helping all of the animals settle down and live together for forty days and nights.  I think the story is very creative, and in true Jan Brett fashion, the illustrations are beautiful, but there is no reference to God at all in the book, and that is a bit odd.  C actually noticed that right away.  We still enjoyed the book for what it is.  Sometimes I welcome the opportunity to discuss problems in books that aren't laid out as problems, and this book gave us that opportunity.  Children often learn more from a book when they think there is something wrong with the story, so I wouldn't ignore this book due to the fact that God is not mentioned.  Books become what we want them to become, and they can teach lessons that are not always meant to be taught.

Anyway, I love giraffes and the animal was recently featured in the April 2011 issue of Your Big Backyard magazine.  We spent some time reading about giraffes and decided to try the giraffe snack in the magazine.  I thought our two giraffes would go along nicely with the book.  I made a few changes to the snack, but it is based on the idea from the magazine.

For our snack, I cut bread into these shapes:

I then covered the bread with peanut butter and added pretzel stick legs and horns.  The eye is a chocolate chip morsel (the magazine recipe calls for a raisin) and the spots on the giraffe are crispy rice cereal (the recipe calls for breaking a cracker into small pieces, but I thought this was easier and provided the same effect).


C and R weren't so sure they looked like giraffes, but they still ate them.
 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

cute and yummy!! Sounds like a fun book!

Sherri said...

that's an adorable snack...my kids would go crazy...love it!

Jennifer said...

Oh my goodness!!! I just LOVE this!!! Definitely bookmarking this idea!

An Almost Unschooling Mom said...

The crispy rice spots are perfect, and probably easier to eat than cracker bits - very nice!

MaryAnne said...

Those are cute! I love your creative snacks =)

Debbie said...

This is so cute, and I bet yummy. I know this is one that Selena would eat.

Ticia said...

Superman loves giraffes and he'd love that!

Goose and Bug said...

I love that it looks like Barbie is riding the giraffe!

Unknown said...

baby Girl is in love with giraffes- I do believe we will need to sample this snack soon...So Fun!

Brimful Curiosities said...

It looks a little like a giraffe but I think this edible project would make really great fawns!

Christianne @ Little Page Turners said...

I think they're great! My kids are my biggest critics, too. :)

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

This looks great. Every time we get Big Backyard or Hi5, I think of making one of the projects described, but daughter is never interested. We watched a Noah's Ark episode from Fantasia 2000 DVD a couple of times, but daughter is mostly confused by the story, especially after I told her the Bible version of it.

Susana said...

I love that Big Backyard magazine. I just reordered it after several years of not having it.

This giraffe snack is so cute! I bet your kids always look forward to their snack times.