Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

Vegetable Creatures

  • 3 whole wheat bagels
  • 1/4 cup whipped cream cheese
  • fresh vegetables for decorating faces:
    • asparagus spears
    • shredded carrots
    • sliced red bell pepper
    • raisins, broccoli florets
    • drained canned beans (black garbanzo, pinto, kidney)
    • cherry or grape tomatoes
    • summer squash rounds
    • olives

Bagel Smiles

  1. Split bagels in half
  2. Spread cream cheese over each bagel half
  3. Use your imagination to create faces using fresh vegetables.
  • carrots
  • cheese spread
  • peanuts

 

The Blob

    1. Trim and scrape carrots
    2. Lay carrot on cutting board, and cut it in half, once crosswise and once lengthwise.
    3. Dip the carrot pieces into the cheese spread.
    4. Push peanuts into the cheese spread so they look like eyes.
  • 4-in sections
    celery (washed and dried)
  • peanut butter
  • raisins

Bugs on a Log

  1. Fill celery sticks with peanut butter.
  2. Press raisins here and there to represent bugs.
  • celery, cream cheese or peanut butter
  • small pretzels
  • licorice

Celery and Pretzel Butterflies

  1. Cut a small slice of celery to form the body of the butterfly.
  2. Spread cream cheese or peanut butter inside the stalk of celery.
  3. Add four small pretzels for the butterfly wings.
  4. Add two licorice pieces for the antennas.
  • one bell pepper
  • cheese spread
  • sliced olives

One-Eyed Monster

  1. Cut the bell pepper in half, and remove the seeds and membrane.
  2. Cut each half into four wedges.
  3. Spread cheese spread on the wedge, and place an olive slice in the center.

Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education

http://www.agclassroom.org/ok

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