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Penguin Snack

By Shaunna Evans 10 Comments ยท This content may contain affiliate links.

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We’ve been learning about penguins lately, and it reminded me of these cream cheese penguins from Allrecipes.com. We made them a few years back and they were so cute. Since both of my girls looooove black olives, I decided we’d make our own penguin snack one afternoon during our penguin theme. They turned out so cute and really tasty!

Penguin Snack...easy to make, tasty to eat!

I wanted to add a cracker of some sort to this snack, so they would be a little easier to handle. Using the cracker as a base also made it easier for Lovey and Tinker to help me make these little penguins.

Ingredients for Penguin Snack

  • Oval crackers-We used Town House Flip Sides Pretzel Crackers
  • Cream cheese
  • Sliced black olives
  • Large whole black olives
  • Carrots 

Penguin Snack

Preparation

The girls started spreading cream cheese on the pretzel crackers. As they did so, I cut the large olives into quarters to make wings. I also cut some carrot slices into a few small triangles for the beaks and feet.

Then we worked together to make the penguins. The picture above is of my penguins. The girls’ were a little more creative with their penguin designs, but they all tasted great! I really liked the taste of the pretzel mixed in with the cream cheese, and after playing a little bit the girls gobbled theirs up too.

If your little ones don’t like cream cheese, you could also use mozzarella slices. The pieces just won’t stick together as well.

In all this took about five minutes to prepare. Not bad for an easy way to add a little fun to snack time!

Don’t forget to grab some penguin books to read as you snack. Our penguin book list includes ficton and nonfiction book suggestions, plus a free printable with the book list and a writing activity sheet.

Favorite Penguin Books for Kids-Fiction and Nonfiction Penguin Books with free printable book list and penguin facts recording sheet #preschool #kindergarten #freeprintable #booklist
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Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Winter Tagged With: Antarctica, penguins, snacks

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Comments

  1. stephanie

    February 1, 2014 at 11:16 pm

    These are too cute! Thanks for sharing at After School!

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  2. Beth

    January 31, 2014 at 7:23 am

    These are ADORABLE! Maybe too cute to eat =)

    I featured this at TGIF today here: http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2014/01/tgif-linky-party-109.html

    Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us. I hope to see you linked up again later today. Have a great weekend,
    Beth

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  3. Adrienne @ Whole New Mom

    January 27, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    I just showed this to my boys and my youngest said, “Please don’t eat us :)!”

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  4. Kelly

    January 27, 2014 at 9:56 am

    Very cute! I bet your kids did enjoy making them, I know mine would. Thanks for sharing at the After School Link Up.

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  5. Keitha

    January 26, 2014 at 9:46 am

    These are absolutely adorable! I am definitely going to have to make some of these for my kiddo. We have made the standing up penguins but I never even thought about putting them on crackers. What a great way to keep that sharp toothpick out of the lunchbox.

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  6. Steph

    January 25, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    I loved this so much I had to list you as one of my Favorite things this week. Stopping by from SITS!

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    • Shaunna Evans

      September 30, 2014 at 6:54 am

      Thank you so much!

      Reply
  7. Jessica @ Play Trains!

    January 21, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    This is ridiculously cute!

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  8. Melissa Guion

    January 21, 2014 at 11:52 am

    Love it! For my book party I made a similar snack for grown-ups using goat cheese!

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  9. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful

    January 21, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Those are adorable!!

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