Muffin Tin Monday ~ New Years

Our muffin "tin" was to celebrate the New Year!
We sang to the tune of Happy Birthday - "Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year Two Thousand and Ten, Happy New Year to you!"
I just mixed up a small batch of rice krispie treats and used the sparklers I specifically bought last week for this... oh and sprayed a bit of Silly String on the table to set the mood and laughter!Happy New Year!
Can't wait for the new things Michelle talks about presenting in 2010!
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Muffin Tin Monday ~ Holidays

it's been awhile since I participated in MTM - about time, I'd say! With my Son home from school for 2 weeks, I thought it would be a perfect time to have a MTM Meal - plus I have to use my two fun muffin tins I got from Target!
We put some Christmas Rice Krispies in the tree muffin tin -and in this one I made a Gingerbread Warm Milk and we ate leftover Cheese Ball from our Family Gathering on Sunday, some cheese cut in the shapes of a Santa Boot (or stocking as my Middle Son says) and a Candy Cane shape. They thoroughly enjoyed this lunch!For more great ideas, visit Her Cup Overfloweth
Merry Christmas!

Muffin Tin Monday

Today's theme is Kebabs, so this is what we did for a quick snack... apples with caramels cut in half, I saw this (toothpick idea) in a magazine last month and knew I wanted to do it with the kids at some point...and for all you Canadians out there - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Muffin Tin Monday

It's about time I got another MTM meal for my children - my oldest has just begun Grade One and he was/is very enthusiastic about this special meal but my youngest two enjoyed it thoroughly today too! Today's theme was APPLES! I just love this time of year!

I've got an apple tree in my backyard that is beckoning me to come and pick its fruit!

I went into my file of different themes I have from my ECE days and came up with a little "circle" time with these felt board variations:
"Four Red Apples"

"10 Red Apples" fingerplayand "Apple Trouble" by Ragnhild Scamell which we have on CD (love books on CD!)

And here's our muffin tin:apple slices with a caramel to dip in (last week I made a caramel sauce but didn't have time for that today); apple-shaped toast which my children sprinkled on cinnamon/sugar mixture; applesauce with cinnamon sprinkled on top; apple-shaped cheese and farmyard crackers - the apple cookie cutter can easily be used for pumpkin shapes too!

My Daughter is using her "picture" (play camera) to take a picture of the meal like I did!Sprinkling on the cinnamon and sugar - tasty!dipping into the Dulce de lecheDelicious!

For more creative MTM's you have to take a moment to visit Her Cup Overfloweth for other participants!

Have a blessed week!

Muffin Tin Monday - dips and sauces

So finally we were able to participate again - this has been a busy July so far! Glad to do it for the kiddos today again!
Last night, a new Sunday dinner tradition I hope/think - we had homemade waffles topped with homemade custard, fresh berries and/or homemade raspberry topping and whip cream - yum! So with our leftover waffles and toppings we filled our muffin tin!
The yellow/white is custard -- recipe can be found HERE on a most wonderful blog called "Mennonite Girls Can Cook"... the brown is syrup, and there was a little of the raspberry topping left as shown...I then filled another muffin tin with veggies and a dill dip - mainly for myselfHave a great Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday ~ Copy Cat

For more participants in this fun carnival, visit Her Cup Overfloweth.Today's theme is Copy Cat - which means you are to copy another MTM you've seen and give them credit for it!
I liked an idea I read about on My Family My Forever when it was the theme of Numbers. So I copied her today! Thanks for this great idea!

I filled 6 muffin cups with things that we could use as a "trail mix"... so
#1 = dried cranberries
#2 = marshmallows
#3 = goldfish
#4 = cheerios
#5 = butterscotch chips
#6 = Kix (which my kids don't like really, won't get any more when we cross into the USA for groceries!)

I gave them each a baggie and then they first rolled the green dice which would equal which food they got. Then the big white dice determined how many of each they got to add to their trail mix.
Fun Fun! Have a great week!

Muffin Tin Monday - no theme

There was no theme for today's Muffin Tin Monday - and since we were out this morning strawberry picking and grocery shopping, we got home in time to eat lunch but not enough time to come up with a lunch-muffin tin... so today it was a snack! Yum! I made some icing and added fruit, pretzels and sprinkles for dipping.
Again, my kids just love Muffin Tin Monday! I love it too!For more Muffin Tin Monday partipants, visit Her Cup Overfloweth!

Muffin Tin Monday ~ Numbers

My Kindergarten Son remembered that today should be "muffin tin Monday" - I had wished I had thought more about what we could do to make it fun but having had sick children in this house for the past 10 days, I didn't give it as much creativity as I would have hoped. My oldest son (kindergartener) pulled out a child-size table from my daughters room with chairs and declares it's a restaurant... a "Muffin Tin Restaurant". So again, this was very fun!

Here's what we did though:
12 - dried cranberries
11 - crackers
10 - crackers with cream cheese
9 - pieces of cheese
8 - slices of apple
7 - apples with peanut butter
6 - pretzels
5 - mini marshmallows
4 - blueberries
3 - cookies
2 - yogurts (one for his sister and one for him)
1 - glass of chocolate milk
*this food was shared a bit amongst my 3 children and myself.
Have a great week! And for more MTM ideas, visit Her Cup Overfloweth!

Muffin Tin Monday ~ ABC's

Last week I somehow came across this meme, Muffin Tin Monday, and I thought it was such a great idea! It spurs on Moms to interact with their children, to create excitement and a learning experience into meal time (IMO)... my kids (ages 5, 3 and 2) were just buzzing when they saw me trying to think up some ABC's for their muffin-tin lunch! They already know that next week is a Numbers theme and so we've conversed about what it could look like!

Thanks Michelle for this idea... please visit her at "Her Cup Overfloweth" here:Here is what we came up with on a wim...
A is for apples and alphabet pasta
B is for banana
C is for cranberries (dried) and carrots
That was fun! I'm already thinking it would be great to continue this for as many Mondays as possible and even into September for my Son who will be in grade 1 and eating lunch at school every Monday! How fun would that be?!

Have a great day!