Take your students on a field trip to the wild without having to leave the classroom. These classroom snack ideas will bring wild encounters to life. Ants, mushrooms and cameras will create an adventurous snack time. With free printables these would make great VBS snack ideas or party snacks too. Be sure to download the Free Printables here! Check out our Wild Encounters Decor Ideas here!
Start your wild adventure by having the kids forage through the snack area for forest mushrooms. Prepare the mushrooms by cutting varying lengths of a stick of string cheese. Cut a cherry tomato in half and scoop out the seeds using a small spoon. Fill the cherry tomato with creamed cheese and place on top of the cut string cheese lengths. To make the spots on the mushroom, place room temperature creamed cheese in a piping bag and pipe small dots onto the tomatoes. These simple yet "wild" snacks are great for VBS snacks or classroom snacks. Label the wild snacks with our free printable!
Ants are both nutritious and delicious, but don't worry these "ants" are just raisins. Fill lengths of celery with creamed cheese or peanut butter and place raisins on top to serve as the ants. Not a fan of raisins? You can substitute them for fresh blueberries or even dried cranberries. Your little adventurers will be fueled and ready to learn after this healthy snack. Don't forget to print off thefree snack label to stick with your wild theme.
Don't forget to snap pictures on your classroom adventure! Cut squares out of pieces of cheese to resemble photographs. Place the cheese on the plate and stick Wild Encounters VBS Stickers onto a square plate inside the cut cheese. To create the camera, remove the top of a chocolate sandwich cookie. Using frosting as ‘glue’, adhere a chocolate chip to the top of a graham cracker and also adhere the cookie to a graham cracker square. Cut small pieces of fruit roll ups to decorate the camera. Download the free label here! Stop and smile for snack time pictures!
Students can explore the biomes with this awesome party snack idea. Mix together different ingredients to represent each of the biomes. Popcorn for the arctic biome, mini pretzel twists for the forest biome, raisins make the perfect ‘ants’ for the jungle biome and Reeses pieces candies add a fun pop of color representing the safari biome. Place the snack mix inside Wild Encounters Paper Cups to really drive home the theme. Don’t forget the napkins and free printable!
Equip the kids with their very own camera snack so that they can document their adventure. Glue cardstock around a juice box. Use Glue Dots to adhere a 12-15" length of ribbon to the juice box. Adhere a Wild Encounters VBS Name Tag to the juice box. Easily keep track of whose juice box belongs to whom by writing the students name onto the nametag. Download the free snack label here!