Muffin Tin Monday: Madeline/France

Well, I guess there is no where for me to link up my muffin tin meals again. That doesn't mean I am going to stop making them though, the children wouldn't let me if I wanted to. And if I am going to make them, I am going to share them. I hope you don't mind.

This week we are reading the book Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans with the curriculum we are reviewing called Lightning Literature and Composition Grade 1, from Hewitt Homeschooling. I am also using the book Picture Book Activities by Trish Kuffner to include the younger children in the fun. So, today's muffin tin had a Madeline/France theme and I also got to use my Triangle Fun Bites cutter that I will be reviewing shortly as a part of my Back to School/5 Year Blogiversary Giveaway.

The top 3 compartments represent the French flag:

Blue-Blueberries

White-Cheese Triangles put together in the shape of a square

Red-Strawberries

Then there is a hat like the one Madeline wears made out of a dessert shell filled with vanilla yogurt, topped with half a peach and tied with a piece of a peel-able Twizzler.

The flower represents the flowers the girls bring Madeline when she is in the hospital. It is made of cheese cut with the FunBites cutter, a grape center and a green pepper stem.

Lastly, the children had a crescent roll (croissant).

I remember rowing Madeline when we were doing Five in a Row a few years ago. Though we aren't using FIAR right now, we are focusing on a book a week during the summer. It's been fun so far.

Muffin Tin Moments: The Bee Tree

This week our memory verse is Proverbs 16:24, "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." We are also learning about trees with our science lessons this week. So, we read The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco and I decided to make a muffin tin based on this book.

The Bee Tree Muffin Tin

Top: 

Ranch dressing cloud

Middle: 

Flower shaped peanut butter and honey sandwich with a Reese's Pieces middle

Bee made out of half a peach plus a peach circle, raisin eyes, shredded cheese antennae and chocolate syrup stripes.

Broccoli trees that the bee is flying toward.

Bottom:

Yellow corn and black olive stripes

Captain Crunch (it was supposed to be HoneyComb, but we didn't have any)

Muffin Tin Monday: Sorting Monster

This week's muffin tin is focusing on 2 themes. Hubby and I have been getting more and more frustrated over the condition of the playroom. 

(The following is a very disturbing image, view at your own risk.)

It is reminiscent of the playroom 2 years ago, several months after Hannah was born and before I got a chance to organize it in September.  I have started cleaning as I want to be ready to start school next month. The problem is, Hannah (and the other 2, don't let them fool you) tend to make a mess out of what we have tried to accomplish.

Today we talked about messes/dirt and having to clean/make neat. Examples I used were dishes, hair, laundry and this room. These are the first two boxes I organized .

Then I introduced their messy/unorganized muffin tins.

And told them they needed to sort them in order to eat them.

They discovered they had foods for all the food groups as usual:

Veggies: Yellow peppers and carrots

Grain: Baby Goldfish

Dairy/Protein: Cheese Curd

Fruit: Grapes and Blueberries

Then I told them they still couldn't eat. They needed to use the food and make a monster face on top of their peanut butter and apple butter sandwiches.

Amelia's monster with grape hair falling into its many blueberry eyes.

Hannah's Monster that she kept adding more to even though she said she was done.

Tabitha's one eyed, two-nosed fishy haired monster

And...mommy's monster. 

We made monsters because they read the book, The Monster at the End of This Book at Summer Reading Program on Thursday.

Muffin Tin Monday: Our Dr. Seuss Muffin Tin

I'm sure most of you know it was Dr. Seuss's birthday on Friday. I couldn't let the day go by with out making a special lunch. And of course, I had to make it a muffin tin. The girls were happily surprised. It is not often that I do a muffin tin on a different day of the week. 

They had:

Green Eggs and Ham

A right foot peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Red pepper and White cheese kabobs

1 Fish 2 Fish Swedish Fish

Red Strawberry and White Banana Kabobs

Left Foot Cinnamon Sugar Toast

Little Debbie Strawberry Roll

Oh, and to add the Red Fish, Blue Fish I gave them the Finding Nemo gummies for them to hunt for the correct colors themselves.

Also linking up to:

Muffin Tin Monday: Mr. Gumpy's Outing

This week we read the story Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham as a "go-along" with last week's book, Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car. It was the children that asked for another muffin tin planned around Mr. Gumpy, but they didn't want a hot dog. Fortunately I have a car shaped cookie cutter. This muffin tin combines the two books.

Sun shaped cheese because it was a nice day for an outing.

Car shaped bologna sandwich.

Chocolate milk mud, because they got stuck in the mud in Mr. Gumpy's Mototcar.

Apricot half boat, because in Mr. Gumpy's Outing they went for a boat ride.

Carrot poles to steer the boat.

Yum, drinking mud.

Muffin Tin Monday: Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car

This week we are rowing the book Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car by John Burningham. Without further ado, here's the tin:

A simple motor car made out of a hot dog with hot dog slice wheels and a graham cracker quarter windshield.

Cheddar cheese sun for the sunny days.

Animal crackers for the animals that piled in the car for the ride.

Salad and grapes for the countryside they drove through.

Marshmallows for the clouds that came.

Chocolate pudding for the mud they got stuck in.

And they had water to drink for the rain and the water they went swimming in afterwards.

View from above:

I attached the wheels with toothpicks on the rolls except for on Amelia's. Her car's wheels just balanced.

Amelia ended up burying her hot dog in the mud.