Fun Foods for Kids: Birdseed Snacks
We bet your little birdies will peck at this healthy treat all day!
- ¼ cup peanut butter or sunflower butter, at room temperature
- ½ cup assorted unshelled seeds (sunflower, flax, sesame and/or pumpkin)
- Celery or carrot sticks and crackers
Fill a zip-top bag with the nut butter, seal and squish down to one corner. Snip a very small tip off one corner of the bag. Squeeze dots of nut butter onto the plate in a fun shape (hearts, stars, whatever!)
Have your child use the peanut butter baggie to connect the dots. Fill in the shape with peanut butter.
Next, have your kid sprinkle the seeds over all the peanut butter shapes.
Shake off the excess seeds and use the celery, carrot and crackers to scoop up the seeded masterpiece. Your little birdy can peck at this all night long!
- To absorb the most nutrition from your raw or toasted flax and sesame seeds, grind them just a little just before getting started with this project.
Provided byJennifer Carden
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