Food Fun: Create Fruit Animals

animal food fun kids

Do you need a simple activity that will not only be fun and creative but also fill your kid’s tummies with healthy food?  Well, letting your child create their own animal, using healthy bits and pieces from within your fridge worked a treat for us! After a week of unhealthy eating (we still have so [...]

Animal Quiz Fun for the Lunch Box

school lunch box

Miss Possum started school just over a month ago and I was dreading the chore of making a meal for the lunch box every day. I don’t feel overwhelmed with it now because I’ve been using it as a way to connect and communicate with Miss Possum while we are apart (I still miss her every day [...]

Animal Taste Game

five senses activity

Have you ever blind folded your child and let them guess food by using only their taste buds? Children really enjoy letting a different sense take over for sight. Miss Possum loves anything to do with her five senses and still enjoys playing our other sense games that incorporate smelling food like an animal and guessing the animal body covering.  It was about [...]

Add Animal Fun to Paper Straws

Animal party idea

On Tuesday I asked you to add a little fun to your food. Now I’m encouraging you to add a little drama to your drinks with this Animal Straw printable.  I wanted to make drinking water more fun for my children (and yours), but there’s a catch. I don’t like plastic straws and I don’t encourage you to [...]

Animal Pastry Pie: Add a Little Fun to Your Food

animal themed food

After being inspired by some tasty wildlife themed food on Pinterest, I couldn’t help but add a little wildlife spark to lunch time yesterday. Sometimes it’s nice to do a simple wildlife activity, not exploratory and not deep thinking. You’ll see more of these creative meal ideas on the new WF4K category – Eat. I decided to surprise my [...]

Christmas Cookies on the Wild Side

Christmas baking for kids

Do you want an easy activity to do with the kids during the lead up to Christmas? Do you want something tasty to eat too? My mum used to spread icing over my milk arrowroot biscuits for special occasions and what’s a better occasion then Christmas?  So, I set out to make my own with [...]

Wildlife Pikelets

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I seem to be spending a lot more time in the kitchen lately.  I didn’t make gourmet wild duck food today but wildlife pikelets. Great for a wildlife themed party or special occasion, don’t you think? I used a piping bag (a plastic bag with a corner cut off) to help me guide the pikelet batter onto the fry [...]