Letter of the Week Snack: O is for Octopus
Welcome to our weekly Letter of the Week snack series, if this is your first time stopping by you are going to love all of our alphabet snack ideas that we have to share! These letter of the week snacks are a great way to start introducing letters and letter sounds to your young children or using as reinforcement for older kids.
Incorporating letters into fun things like snacks and games is a great way to help your kids learn their letters and the sounds the letters make. If you homeschool, you can easily add these into your curriculum. If your kids go to preschool or kindergarten, maybe coordinate with the teacher for the day they are learning a specific letter, have your child take a fun letter snack that day!
This week we are working on the letter O and have a simple Octopus snack idea for you. These are Hotdog Octopus creatures that you can make as a snack or use as a meal, we don’t eat hotdogs very often so these are a treat for my kids.
Hot to Make Octopus Snacks
Ingredients:
Hotdogs
Yep that’s it!!’
Instructions
Step 1 – Cut your hotdog in half but only half way up the hotdog
Step 2 – Turn the hot dog and but into 4th’s but only half way up the hotdog, you can do this as many time as you would like and create eight legs for the octopus. Mine are a little funny looking, but my boys loved them with just the four legs!!
You can also find Letter of the Week Crafts here at Crystal & Comp to coordinate with your Letter of the Week Snacks.
Letter of the Week Crafts:
- A is for Alligator
- B is for Butterfly
- C is for Car
- D is for Doghouse
- E is for Eagle
- F is for Frog
- G is for Goat
- H is for House
- I is for Ice Cream
- J is for Jellyfish
- K is for King
- L is for Lamp
- M is for Mouse
- N is for Night
- O is for Octopus
- P is for Penguin
- Q is for Quilt
- R is for Rainbow
- S is for Snake
- T is for Tree
- U is for Underwater
- V is for Vase
- W is for Watermelon
You can also find Letter of the Week Crafts here at Crystal & Comp to coordinate with your Letter of the Week Snacks.
Letter of the Week Snacks:
- A is for Airplane (granola bar)
- B is for Butterfly (grapes)
- C is for Car (apple)
- D is for Dirt (Oreos)
- E is for Egg (pretzels)
- F is for Fishing (cupcake)
- G is for Green (rice krispy)
- H is for Heart (waffle)
- I is for Ice Cream (ice cream)
- J is for Jelly Bean (Trail Mix)
- K is for Kite (Graham cracker)
- L is for Lollipop (Apple Lollipop)
- M is for Monster (Monster Cookie)
- N is for Nest (Nest Candy)
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I love the idea of incorporating snack time into the learning experience! 🙂 I think our preschoolers will really enjoy these themed snacks. Thanks for sharing at the Better Mom link-up!
It certainly makes learning fun and yummy!
This is such a cute idea! Even thought my daughter is now 22, I think she would still love this! She is a big kid, just like me!
Thanks for sharing at the In and Out of the Kitchen link party! Always glad to see you there!
Food learning fun is a great hands-on learning technique. I like the use of octopus hot dogs here. Thank you for sharing and for linking up this week to the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop 🙂
Crystal,
This is a precious snack, what a great idea. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday, and have a great weekend.
Miz Helen