Moon Craters and Silly Lunch

We are studying the moon right now!  This morning we talked about moon craters and what the surface of the moon is like and how craters are formed.  I took a shallow container and filled it 1/2 full with flour.  We smoothed out the flour and then dropped a plastic easter egg (the closest thing I could find to a small ball this morning - HA!) into the container to see the craters that were formed.  Seth, of course, loved this activity.  (he is a HUGE fan of the cartoon Rescue Heroes and his favorite episode is the one about the meteor showers.  When we read that it was meteorites that caused these craters on the moon he got all excited and loved pretending to be the meteorite crashing into the moon when he was dropping the egg into the flour!)

Silly Lunch

We also had a "silly lunch" today.  I made pizzas in moon shapes.  For some I used my crescent moon shaped cookie cutter and for others I just used a cup (to make full moons).  Oh!  And *pssst don't tell the kids*I put some of our veggie purees from our Sneaky Chef cookbook in the pizza sauce.  They didn't even know they were in there (and you seriously could not tell a taste different) so I don't feel bad giving my kids pizza for lunch because they were getting yummy veggies as well :-)!

Silly Lunch - Sloppy Joe Bun Buggy

First I would like to introduce you to an AWESOME cookbook I have found for kids.  It is called Cooking For Kids Bible.  (in fact you can click here to see it's listing on Amazon.com if you want).  This cookbook is full of fun recipes, that are most of the time healthy as well!

I have a goal of doing at least one silly fun lunch each week.  I am going to try to do something that goes with each of our themes if I can.

I couldn't come up with something for the sun theme but I did like the Sloppy Joes Bun Buggy in this book and thought the boys would get a kick out of it too!

It's basically sloppy joes in hot dog buns. (the recipe in the book put chopped broccoli in the sloppy joes...made it healthy :-))  You make wheels with cucumber slices, headlights with olives, and a steering wheel with a pretzel twist.  Here is what it turned out looking like:

The boys loved it!!