Treat ideas for any occasion!

Check out these non-fishy sushi treats!!

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
6 cups crisped rice cereal
20 to 25 gummy worms

OR Swedish fish for a different look!
1 to 2 boxes fruit leather

Directions

Grease a 12- by 17-inch baking sheet. Melt butter in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the marshmallows and stir until smooth.

Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the rice cereal until it's evenly coated. Turn the baking sheet so that the shorter ends are at the top and bottom. Then press the marshmallow mixture onto the sheet, distributing it evenly.

Starting at one side an inch up from the lower edge, place gummy worms atop the mixture end to end in a hortizontal line. Gently roll the lower edge of the marshmallow mixture over the gummy worms.

Then stop and cut the log away from the rest of the mixture. Use the same method to form 4 more logs. Slice each log into 1-inch-thick "sushi" rolls and wrap them individually with a strip of fruit leather.

Makes 4 to 5 dozen.

Graduation and End of School Year Treat Ideas

Cap off the school year with these cute cookies. I actually did make these cookies with my kids' help. They are so cute and easy! Your child can help you put these together.

Chocolate Mortarboard Cookies

Put a miniature peanut butter cup, upside down (narrower end up), on your work surface. Then with a drop of frosting or peanut butter, stick on a small rectangle shaped chocolate-covered cookie/graham cracker (right side up) on top of the peanut butter cup.
For a tassel, you can either use frosting in school colors to draw it on or use a tightly rolled up small square of fruit roll-up. Cut fringe on one end and attach the top end to the center of the graham cracker with more frosting or peanut butter. I personally think it's easier to use the frosting to draw on the tassel. Or leave it off altogether. People get the idea that they are mortarboards.

You can also try this idea for a cute treat, that looks like a diploma!

Mix up 8 oz, of softened cream cheese and 1/4 cup of seedless fruit jam. Lightly spread the cream cheese and jam mixture on a flour tortilla or Lavash bread, then roll up each sandwich diploma style and tie on a ribbon made of cut up Fruit Roll-ups. Adjust to fit your chosen size. Mixture makes 4 to 6 sandwiches. Easy and yummy!

"You're a Star" Watermelon Pops

Cut slices of seedless watermelon about an inch thick, then use a cookie cutter to cut star shapes. Insert a Popsicle stick into each star, then put the pops on a baking sheet covered in foil or in a tupperware container. Cover the star pops with another sheet of foil and freeze for 1 hour or until firm. You can also do this with cookies, by putting them on a stick before they bake.

MUD CUP TREATS In clear plastic tumbler-type cups, layer crushed Oreos first on the bottom, then chocolate pudding, more crushed Oreos, gummy worms, spiders, bugs, candy rocks, and a flower stuck in the middle so that it looks like a flower planted in dirt.

Other ideas include any kind of finger foods, some better for outside parties:

Smoothies
The "ever-popular" cupcakes, decorated in countless ways to fit your theme!
Cut up veggies and fruit
Deviled eggs
Fruit kabobs
Cheese and meat kabobs
Meatballs
Chicken Nuggets
Chicken Wings
Pigs in a Blanket
Pretzels dipped in chocolate and decorated
Banana Pops
Homemade or ready-made ice cream sandwiches

Miscellaneous fun recipes

Easy no bake ideas to do in class!!

EASY S'MORES

Spread one graham cracker with chocolate frosting or chocolate peanut butter and the other with marshmallow creme and sandwich together. Microwave for a few seconds.

CHOCOLATE CHIP NO-BAKE COOKIES
1 large bag chocolate chips
1 large bag peanut butter chips
2 small cans chow mein noodles
1 bag mini marshmallows
2 cups oatmeal
Combine noodles, marshmallows, and oatmeal in a large bowl. Stir. Melt chips in microwave (many schools have them), pour over noodle mixture, and stir, make into medium-sized mounds.

ORANGE BALLS
1 1/8 cups vanilla wafers, crushed
3/4 cup flaked coconut
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 (6-ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for rolling
Mix together the vanilla wafers, coconut, 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, and frozen orange juice. Mold into 1-inch balls and roll in remaining confectioners' sugar. Store covered in the refrigerator.


5-IN-1 NO-BAKE COOKIES
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey or corn syrup
1/4 cup orange juice concentrate
1 1/2 cup nonfat dry milk powder
Combine thoroughly. Now add ingredients from one of the following five options:

•OR's 2 cups rolled oats 1 1/2 cup raisins Mix. Shape into balls, then flatten.
•Crispy Balls 4 cups crispy cereal Mix. Shape into small balls.
•Raisin Clusters 1/4 cup cocoa 4 cups raisins Mix. Cluster into small balls.
•Coc O Balls 1/4 cup cocoa 2 cups rolled oats 1/4 cup chopped peanuts 1 tsp. vanilla Mix. Shape into balls.
•Grahamys Add 1/4 cup raisins. Spread between graham crackers.


Applesauce in the classroom - burner needed
Ingredients - apples, cinnamon candies, big pan, water and food mill

Apples, cored and cut up - no need to peel
Heat apples in large dutch oven on burner, covered with water. When the apples are soft, drain off the water, then add cinnamon candies to taste.
Put through a food mill. The kids love to do this. My mother has gone to my kids' classes several times each to make applesauce.