How to Make Butterfly Snacks for Primary Kids
Healthy Food Ideas for Elementary Education Units and Lesson Plans
Apr 18, 2009
Butterflies are a popular teaching theme in primary school. Students are naturally excited about butterflies and elementary teachers are eager to channel this excitement and interest into learning.
Primary school teachers teach butterfly lessons in every subject area during a butterfly themed unit. This immerses students in the topic and increase their learning in all areas.
Teachers can take the learning one step further by making healthy butterfly snacks with the kids in their classroom. The snacks can be shared during an individual butterfly lesson or at the end of a unit as the culminating activity.
Healthy butterfly snacks can also be used as motivation for learning new things or performing desired classroom behaviors. Teachers can cut out pictures of the ingredients in a butterfly snack and display them in the classroom. Students can earn a piece of the healthy snack every time they complete a lesson or have a good behavior day. When all of the pieces have been earned the class gets to make and eat the snack.
How to Make Healthy Butterfly Snacks for Kids
Paint Butterfly Shaped Toast
- Students or teachers use butterfly shaped cookie cutters to cut butterflies out of white bread.
- The teacher gives the kids bowls of milk with three drops of food coloring in it and clean paintbrushes or cotton swabs.
- The primary students paint the bread butterflies, making sure not to soak the bread, and then toast the bread in a toaster oven.
- To make the snack even healthier for kids teachers can purchase whole grain white bread and use all natural food coloring.
Apple and Pretzel Butterfly Snacks
- Teachers can make butterfly snacks using apple slices and pretzel rods. On a paper plate the teacher or student uses peanut butter to attach two apple slices to the sides of a pretzel rod to create a butterfly shape.
- If there are any students in the class with nut allergies softened cream cheese can be used in place of the peanut butter.
Grape and Goldfish Butterfly Bag Snacks
- To create a butterfly treat for students teachers can fill snack size plastic bags with grapes and Goldfish crackers.
- The grapes are placed on one side and the crackers on the other. The teacher ties a pipe cleaner, or chenille stem, around the middle of the bag to create the butterfly body.
- The ends of the pipe cleaner are then bent to make the antennae.
Bake Butterfly Biscuit Snacks for Kids
- Butterfly biscuits are an easy make-ahead treat for elementary kids. The teacher cuts refrigerated biscuits in half.
- The halves are flipped and placed back together to form a butterfly and then baked according to the package directions.
- When they come out the teacher can stick chow mien noodles with raisins at the ends into the biscuits for the antennae.
Primary school teachers can make healthy butterfly snacks for students during a butterfly themed unit or lesson. The snacks can be given at the end of a lesson or to celebrate the conclusion of the butterfly unit. Teachers can also use butterfly snacks as a fun way to motivate kids in the classroom by serving the healthy snacks as an individual or class reward.
For butterfly themed lesson plans primary school teachers can read the Caterpillar Butterfly Math Lesson Plan and teach elementary students math patterns and symmetry and Butterfly Life Cycle Elementary Lesson Plan to use pasta to teach about the life cycle of a butterfly.
To cook with kids in the elementary classroom teachers can use the Pumpkin Pie Math and Science Cooking Lesson Plan and teach students math and measuring skills.
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