🍎 Apple Monster Mouths

Apple Monster Mouths for kids: the whole recipe

Let's make silly monster mouths with apple lips and marshmallow teeth! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 10 (grades K–4th), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 1 apple
• 2 strawberries
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter (or sunflower seed butter)
• ¼ cup mini marshmallows
• 4 candy eyes (optional)

Tools

A cutting board, A sharp knife (grown-up), A butter knife, Measuring spoons, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts 1 apple into slices and cuts out the core.
3. Cut 2 strawberries into flat slices with a butter knife.
4. Spread 2 tablespoons of peanut butter on one side of each apple slice.
5. Use ¼ cup of mini marshmallows to make a row of teeth along the edge of half the slices.
6. Lay a strawberry slice on the teeth: that's the tongue!
7. Press another slice on top, red skin out: a monster mouth!
8. Stick 4 candy eyes on top with a tiny dab of the spread.
9. Line up your monsters and make them talk. ROAR! Then crunch.

Safety notes

• Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains peanuts. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Cut apple into thin slices for little ones under 4.
• Spread peanut butter thin for little ones: a big lump can choke.
• Marshmallows are a choking risk for little ones under 4.
• Hard or chewy candy is a choking risk for little ones under 4: leave it off for them.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

An apple slice goes brown because air reaches the cut inside, so make the mouths and eat them soon.

Make it your own

• Use a green apple for a swamp monster.
• Give your monster a raspberry tongue instead.
• Make a tiny monster from a clementine segment and two sunflower seed teeth.

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