Recipes
Frozen Melon Pops
Ice pops are always nice on a hot day… But did you know that they can also come in handy when you have a mouth bleed? Here is a healthy, quick and easy recipe for homemade ice pops. Cantaloupe and Honeydew melons are loaded with vitamins A and C.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 6 oz. can frozen fruit juice concentrate (avoid acidic juices like lemon, orange, lime, pineapple, and papaya juices while new clot stabilizes)
- 3 cups cubed cantaloupe or honeydew melon
- 3/4 cup water
- 5 oz. small paper drink cups
- wooden popsicle sticks
Preparation: In blender or food processor, combine fruit juice concentrate and melon and process until smooth. Fill each drink cup with about 1/2 cup of this mixture, then freeze until partially frozen (about 1 hour). Insert wooden sticks and freeze until firm. To serve, peel away the paper cup. Makes approximately 6 to 8 pops.
Fruity Play Dough
This non-toxic play dough recipe smells great and is fun to mold and squish into all sorts of shapes. Use different color drink mixes to make a variety of colors and fruity scents. Your children may want to eat it, but does not taste very good! Colored hands may happen
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup salt
- 1 packet unsweetened drink mix
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 1/2 Tbsp vegetable oil
Directions:
- Mix flour, salt and drink mix in zip top bag
- Add in water and oil and zip bag closed
- Gently knead mixture in the bag for about 5 minutes (or until thoroughly mixed) May store in a sealed bag for up to 2 months.
Cinnamon Dough
This festive and fragrant dough can be made into ornaments that look wonderful hanging on trees and plants or as unique package decorations. It rolls out just like cookie dough. Cookie cutters can help you turn them into all sorts of shapes like gingerbread men, apples, and birds.
What you'll need:
- 1 1/2 cups ground cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1/3 cup white school glue (like Elmer's)
- 1 medium sized bowl
- Flat surface for kneading
- Wax paper or parchment paper
- Rolling pin
- Cookie cutters - various types
- Knife
- Straw
- Non-stick cooling rack
- Pretty cloth ribbon
- White puffy paints, optional
How to make it:
- Mix cinnamon, applesauce, and glue together in a bowl.
- Remove from the bowl and knead the mixture until it turns into a firm clay.
- Let sit for about 30 minutes. Clay is best used at room temperature.
- You may need to dust your rolling pin, hands, or working surface with cinnamon, or use wax paper as a working surface.
- Roll out clay with a rolling pin to approximately 1/8 of an inch thick. Use cutters to cut out desired shapes (we like gingerbread men).
- If you are going to hang your shape, use a straw to cut out a hole near the top of the shape.
- Place shapes on a non stick cooling rack or wax paper. You will need to keep an eye on them and turn them over occasionally so that they dry evenly and dry flat. Dry shapes for approximately five days. Note: Humidity can affect how quickly ornaments dry.
- When dry you may put a ribbon through the hole for hanging on the tree or adding to a package.
- You may add puffy paint to decorate your shapes, if you wish. (Ex: eyes, buttons and mittens on the gingerbread men).