It's National Snack Month! Yum! Yum! Yum! Nom! Nom! Nom!
How do you commemorate such an occasion?
NOTE: Before you serve ANY food in the classroom, be sure to check with your school administration AND your head custodian.
1. You can always serve your students a snack which, for convenience but more expensive, can be anything bite-size and pre-packaged. Older students, like Middle School and High School students, get a kick out of anything worth eating. If you feel like you can spare some money, buy those pre-packaged snacks.
2. Healthier options: Slice apples, oranges, and bananas. Serve raisins, grapes, peanuts (be careful of food allergies), etc. This works better for classes that do not change every hours. You can purchase pre-packed apples, carrots, and celery as well, but that also can get expensive.
3. Crackers. Buy crackers by the bulk and these can easily be shared among students. If you want to get extra crafty, head to lunch tables or outside under a tree and have the students share cheese spread. Cracker recipes can also find
healthy recipes.
4. Blogger
It's Taylor Made made fruit kabobs for her Yo-Gabba-Gabba children party
5. Buy some bread, peanut butter, jelly, and wah-lah. Use cookie cutters to make their own fun shapes.
Lastly, consider making a classroom consensus. Divide students into the four major food groups: Fruits, Proteins, Dairy, Vegetables, Grains and having each group create a questionnaire that would help create a consensus of popular snacks for each group. Then offer the students an opportunity to vote on one snack that you can serve.
Of course, I imagine doing this lesson if you have an unlimited budget.
