Babysitters and parental units, meet your new secret snack weapon.
1. Turn a banana into a pretzel-legged caterpillar.

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Use peanut butter to stick banana slices together, then add pretzel stick legs. Hello, friend!
3. Apple + grapes cut in half = octopus.

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Or, if you run out of grapes, septopus. In other news: Don’t you sometimes wish your teeth were actually chocolate chips?
4. Or a sweet turtle.

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The details.
8. A banana and a peanut butter sandwich will get the job done, too.

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9. All a strawberry needs to be a mouse is a string cheese tail and almond ears.

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A little Triscuit bed doesn’t hurt, either. Deets here.
12. Same goes for teddy bear toast.

Toast it, butter it, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, add banana slices and raisins. Smile!
13. Use clothespins to turn snack bags into butterflies.

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You’ll need pipe cleaners for the antennae. Instructions here.
15. It just takes a knife to make this happy fruit peacock.

More like a PEARcock, am I right?
(Sorry.)
18. How’s it going, grapefruit owl?

Banana eyes! Clementine wings! He’s got it all.
Thanks to Canadian Family columnist Jill Dubien for lots of these cute ideas.
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