I love that Emma can find a face in anything – even mac and cheese with peas! Recently she has branched out into cute food!
Here she used marshmallows, a soybean, and a “c” alphabet cookie to make faces on pumpkin pancakes for Johnny and Lily:
I love how thrilled they are with their sister’s creations! She loves watching them, too!
I think these toothpick, marshmallow, and whipped cream pancake guys are awesome – they have so much personality!
The kids also made pyramids out of toothpicks and marshmallows with a little help from Mike. Great fine motor skills practice:
And three kids very proud of their creations! Which they thoroughly enjoyed eating (well, the marshmallows, not the toothpicks) afterwards!
Do you have cute food posts for kids? I’m sure Emma would love to have some inspiration!
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Love the addition of the toothpicks to the pancakes. My kids are pancake fiends and would love to do that. Vicky from Mess For Less
Cute! I remember eating mac-n-cheese with peas when I was a kid. So good! My Memaw used to make salmon patties with it. Yummy!
Having fun with food creations always brightens the day. We often make “banana men” – banana body, raisin eyes, little strip of cheese for the mouth, grated cheese for hair, prunes for boots and any fruit cut into strips for arms and legs.
This is awesome – Emma is such a creative girl. Anna is not much into creating with food, but check out this blog post from my friend – http://markandautumn.blogspot.com/2012/01/food-artist.html
That is awesome!!! I definitely need to look into those books for Emma!
Emma is so creative! Love the mac&cheese&peas especially, and the whipped cream pancake guys are particularly whimsical.
She might enjoy one of my kids’ favourites: tortillas (any colour) with a contrasting filling, rolled up and then cut into cross-sections which look like spirals. We highly recommend spinach tortillas spread with grated carrots mixed with cream cheese.
I love your tortilla snack idea! Full of veggies, too!
Will definitely try with Emma – she’ll love it! Thank you! =)
You’re welcome! We call them “cream cheese spirals.” :) They are great to bring along to parties and things, too.
Maybe we can make them for her birthday party! =)
I need to let my girls try out the marshmallows and toothpicks soon. And I love your pancake faces. That would be something different to do with our pancakes on our Breakfast for Dinner Thursdays. Thanks for sharing.
We do peas in mac n cheese too!
Not sure what’s for supper yet but it is definitely going to have a –> : )
So creative! Lu and Em love making faces and making letters with their food too!
I make the “happy apple” which is peanut butter on an apple half with a smiley face with raisins. Sometimes I make a letter or a number.
I do but I am not sure if I have pictures. Have you seen those books where they make all sorts of things out of real fruit. They are kids books and they are seriously so cool, your kids would love them. O.K. I just googled it, the books are by Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers, your library might have it.
I’ll have to look for those – thanks for the suggestion!
My kids love to play with marshmallows and toothpicks. I love the mac and cheese and peas face!
Absolutely adorable….and some proud kids too! :)
Oh that is so cute! My kids haven’t really discovered making faces yet. They do love to make marshmallow and toothpick designs. I suspect that’s more so they can sneak some marshmallows.