August 27: Banana Lovers’ Day

image from food.com

Sharp followers of this blog will note that Banana Split Day was also celebrated in the last week. Maybe someone overdid it on their banana order and came up with Banana Lovers’ Day just two days later to get read of extras! In any event, here’s another fun banana snack:

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Banana Caterpillar

Materials:

• Bananas
• Peanut butter
• Grapes
• Chow mien noodles
• Knife
• Plates

Directions:

1. Peel a banana and slice it lengthwise.
2. Use peanut butter to attach chow mien noodles to banana to form legs.
3. Use peanut butter to attach grape to one end of banana to make the head.
4. Gently poke two noodles into grape to form a head with antennae.

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Source(s): familycorner.com, adapted for the Toolbox Training book 100 Cooking Activities for Kids. Also consider even more banana-oriented activities in that book: B5, C3, D5, and I9.

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Check out the full August calendar. It includes floating holidays, specialty weeks, and specialty months.

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August 25: Banana Split Day

image from icecreamjournal.turkeyhill.com

Let the kids make their own banana splits!

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Banana Splits

Materials:

• Bananas
• Ice cream
• Ice cream scoop
• Ice cream sauces/syrups
• Nuts (check first regarding kids’ allergies)
• Sprinkles
• Cherries
• Spoons
• Bowls or other containers

Directions:

1. There’s really nothing to it. Just provide the kids with the ingredients and let them create their own banana splits.
2. You can also have kids brainstorm some unusual toppings for the banana splits.
3. You may need to have rules about how much kids can have of various ingredients (limit of how many scoops of ice cream, etc.). Otherwise they may get outrageous with their portions!

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Check out the full August calendar. It includes floating holidays, specialty weeks, and specialty months.

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