Recipe: Sailing Snack!

Ahoy readers,

In the Jan/Feb issue of Chirp, we show you how to make a cute and yummy sailing snack!

Read on below to learn how to make it:

*Always ask an adult for help in the kitchen.

You’ll need:

• Small cucumbers
• Cottage cheese and/or cream cheese
• Carrot sticks
• Animal crackers or cookies

What to do:

1. Cut away some of the cucumber and fill it with cottage or cream cheese.
2. Add a carrot mast and a thinly sliced cucumber for a sail.
3. Add some sailors – your animal crackers or cookies.
4. Serve with cottage cheese/cream cheese and add some fishy crackers too!

Enjoy!

-Mariam, chirpblog@owlkids.com

Craft: Dynamite Dragon!

Hey readers,

Celebrate Lunar New Year with this awesome craft! Turn a toilet paper roll into a fire-breathing dragon!

You’ll need:

• toilet paper roll
• tissue paper strips
• 2 small pompoms
• 2 large pompoms
• googly eyes
• paint
• glue

What to do:

1. Paint a toilet paper roll your favourite dragon color. Let the paint dry.
2. Glue tissue paper strips to the inside edge of the toilet paper roll.
3. Glue two small pompoms to the toilet paper roll, close to the tissue paper. These are the dragon’s nostrils.
4. Glue googly eyes onto the large pompoms. Let the glue dry.
5. Blow into the dragon head to see it breathe fire!

Have fun!

Mariam, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com

Silly Snack!

Hey readers,

Put a smile on your face with these funny cookies! Check it out below.

You’ll need:

• your favourite cookies
• small jar of white icing
• marshmallows
• small tube of dark icing
• pretzel sticks
• small candies

How to make:

1. Place a marshmallow on top of each cookie.
2. Spread white icing around each marshmallow to look like a melted snow person’s body.
3. Use black icing to add eyes and a mouth. Stick on a piece of candy for a nose.
4. Use pretzels for arms.

Enjoy!

-Mariam, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com

Frozen Treat Time!

Hey readers,

Learn to make a yummy frozen raspberry treat from the December issue of Chirp!

Read on below to learn how to make it:

*Always ask an adult for help in the kitchen.

You’ll need:

• Graham cracker crumbs
• Flavoured yogurt
• Frozen berries
• Muffin Cups
• Muffin Tin

What to do:

1. Mix graham cracker crumbs with enough yogurt to make a paste.
2. Line the muffin tin with cups. Spoon a layer of the graham cracker mixture into each one and smooth it out.
3. Mash some berries into more yogurt. Fill the cups with this mixture.
4. Freeze your treats overnight, unwrap and serve.

Enjoy!

-Mariam, chirpblog@owlkids.com

Craft: Cool Block Crafts!

Hey readers,

Check out these awesome block crafts. You can create these by using any kind of building blocks you have at home!

Have fun!

Mariam, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com