Showing posts with label Grandchildren&Pinterest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandchildren&Pinterest. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Apple Pops Children and Pinterest



Pinterest has too be the best antidote against boredom and a great way to get children (even teens) to put down their devices and join in.

Having been to pick apples the previous week we were looking for an apple treat and found Apple Pops.

All the ingredients were readily available in our kitchen: chocolate chips, caramel treats, apples and candy making sticks.


The recipe and directions provided by Mom Loves Baking is very easy to follow.  
  
We made the following changes:
  1. 1   We melted our caramels in the microwaves as directed and then kept is soft and easy to apply by placing it in a hot water bath.
  2. 2.     We also used sucker sticks and cut some of the apple slices in ½ making a nice treat for us older people who appreciate less sweet.

We also recommend that you make and eat your Apple Pops as our grandchildren call them all in the same day.  Making them in the morning and refrigerating for an hour is perfect for eating.

We found that by day two the chocolate slides off the apple slice.

Here is the link to Chocolate Turtle Apple Slices 
what our granddaughter affectionately call Apple Pops


Grandma Snyder


©2013-2017 twosnydergirls

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

Pinterest and children go together like peanut butter and jam and 
they are  just as much fun.

After just 15 minutes on Pinterest we had a list of 10 foods, crafts or activities that they would like to do.

Here is #1 only because we had all of the ingredients at hand on a Canadian Thanksgiving Saturday.

Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

There are numerous posts dedicated to making a rice cereal treats that look like  watermelons.  We have included a few at the bottom of this post.

We used food colour only because we do not enjoy the taste of Kool Aid powder in our rice treats and many of the recipes include this drink powder to help colour the cereal.

Other recipes use chocolate chips or raisin on top of the cereal treat to create watermelon seeds and we expanded on this adding a ¼ cup of chocolate chips to the warm marshmallow batter to add a little chocolate treat to the inside.


Grandma Snyder
 
©2013 – 2017 twosnydergirls