Good snack ideas to take to preschool for 2 kids allergic to nuts. Only 9 in the class, so we can get creative

Answer 1

I just did this w/ my lil girls class. They loved it & so did the teachers!
Buy a "barrel" of the large ABC cookie cutters ($8 @ walmart & kmart) and make cookies or jello jiiglers w/ each childs first initial. So Hailey would get "H" and Matt would get a "M". It is a little more work but they are at the point they will recognize the 1st letter of there name & be so thrilled . Bonus of sucking up to the teachers as well.

Answer 2

If you want to bake, make things with fruit, to get some nourishment into them. If this was Pennsylvania, they might have Apple Pandowdie. It's also good with cherries or berries.

The easy way is to start with the canned biscuit dough, like "Poppin' fresh," you know. My grandmother always made her own biscuits, my mother used Bisquick, and I have further degraded the recipe.

Anyway, peel a couple of nice tart Granny Smith apples and cut into narrow wedges. 1/16 of the whole apple is the idea, so give yourself about 32 of them from the two apples. Sort of. More or less. No; more, rather than less. They shrink.

Grease a baking dish generously (including up the sides) and put the apples in a layer on the bottom of the pan. Usually, you put them in rows, with the narrow edge of one covered by the broad edge of the next, like shingles almost. They will shrink when they bake, so you overlap them about halfway. Make a nice tight layer of apples.

Now take your Pennsylvania Dutch Spice Mix [4 parts cinnamon, 2 parts ginger, 1 part nutmeg, 1 part cloves] in a shaker bottle and dust those apples until you've pretty completely covered them in spice blend. Then drizzle about half a cup of dark Karo syrup over them. (It beads up on the powdery spices and looks cool; let the kids do that part.) Dot the whole surface with little bitty dots of butter. Use maybe two tablespoons of butter, but distribute it as well as you have patience for.

Now pop open the biscuit dough can and spread the dough out until its about the same size as the pan you have just prepared, or maybe a little larger to give you some slack, and put it down on top of the apples. Make the dough totally fit the pan, right up to the edges, to cover the apples neatly. If "poppin' fresh" didn't already do it for you, score the dough into small (2-3") segments, and bake it at 375 F for about 30 minutes, or until the biscuit is golden brown and the smell of it baking is driving you all crazy.

As soon as you take it out of the oven, put a large plate upside down over the pan and turn both upside down. Let the pan sit on top long enough for all the syrupy stuff to drip down, then lift it off and serve your Apple Pandowdie warm, maybe with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, if you're really not concerned with calories.

Answer 3

At this time of the year, my mother would make little cheese balls that lookes like pumpkins. She'd use Velveeta or some other soft cheese and put parsley on top fot the stem and leaf. We brought these for snack from preschool through first grade.

Answer 4

A simple treat that the children can make themselves with your help. This summer i worked at a preschool camp and the children loved this treat and truly enjoyed making it.
you need toothpicks, jumbo marshmellows,2 bowls, chocolate syrup, and rice crispy treat cereal.
You put rice crispy treat cereal in a bowl and chocolate syrup in the other bowl.
have the children take a jumbo marshmellow and put a toothpick halfway through it (like if you were going to roast it.)
Then have them take the marshmellow by holding the toothpick and rub choclate syrup all over it by putting it in the bowl and moving it around.
Right after that put the chocolate marshmellow in the rice crispy treat bowl and move the toothpick around so that the cereal sticks.
Set out on a plate and leave for about 25 minutes, the chocolate will harden and you will then have a delicous chocolatey snak.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm!

Answer 5

Grapes, Bananas, cheese sticks, Get a large pizza cut up into little squares, raisins, applesauce, animal crackers, goldfish crackers~colors of course, check the nut content of sunchips and dry cereals, rice krispy treats (check for nut content), cupcakes, cookies, carrots and dip, I think there are a lot of preschoolers who like black olives, bagels and cream cheese, dannanimals yogurt drinks. Everything is more fun on ZooPals plates! My 4 year old loves pita pockets and tortillias...you could make your own "lunchable-in-bulk" Get 5 slices of deli ham, 5 turkey, 5 colby cheese, 5 provolone or mozzarella..then cut them into squares and serve w/ crackers.

Answer 6

My daughter is always one of those kids allergic to nuts. Many items have peanut oil in them or were manufactured in a plant or on equipment that also manufactures peanuts and tree nuts. You can find that verbage under the ingredients(referred to as allergy information). When asked by parents, I always suggest pretzals,raisins or potato chips. Usually those are safe but do check the package for any allergy info. As a parent of a child with these allergies, I appreciate your concern and paying attention to this! :o)

Answer 7

You can get a cookie cutter (or several) and make cheese sandwiches and cut them in fun shapes (this takes that yucky crust off too!!). Or you can do that with cheese, fruit, even veggies...not that kids will eat flower-shaped veggies... but you can try! Those wonderful "goldfish" crackers work too... you can put them in little baggies and serve them individually. Presentation is half the battle with preschoolers.

Answer 8

so cute...make blue jello and pour into see through plastic cups, after it is partially set up put swedish fish into the jello. After it sets up you have fish swimming in water. Of course there is also the ever so popular worms in dirt, the kids can even get involved making the instant pudding, crushing the cookies and putting the worms in. This is also a great activity for language development.

Answer 9

Cheese and crackers
Fruit
Graham crackers
Apple sauce
Juice
Quesadillas
Muffins
Fruit and cheese kabobs
Goldfish crackers
Popcorn
Real fruit snacks/real fruit rollups
Mini corn dogs
Chex Mix
Low fat milk

Answer 10

I'm in the same boat so...yogurt covered raisins have been the biggest hit so far. (They look like m&m's) carrots and dip, watermelon, cheese puffs, fruit snacks. Check all packaging VERY carefully!!!!!!!