Beetles on a log! Shiny blue beetles with crunchy pretzel legs. They're the only bugs you're allowed to eat. This easy no-cook recipe is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 10 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.
Ingredients
2 sticks of celery
4 tablespoons sunflower seed butter
12 pretzel sticks (or gluten-free pretzel sticks)
¼ cup blueberries¼ cup (60 ml) blueberries
1 teaspoon mini chocolate chips (optional)
Tools
A cutting board, A sharp knife (grown-up), A butter knife, Measuring spoons, A plate.
Steps
Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds, then let's make Beetles on a Log!
Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts 2 sticks of celery into short logs, two from each stick.
Spread 4 tablespoons of sunflower seed butter along each log with a butter knife.
Snap 12 pretzel sticks into three short bits each. Those are legs!
Lay three pretzel bits across the log for each beetle, side by side.
Press ¼ cup of blueberries onto the legs, one blueberry for each beetle.Press ¼ cup (60 ml) of blueberries onto the legs, one blueberry for each beetle.
Tuck 1 teaspoon of mini chocolate chips in at the front of each beetle for a head.
Your beetles are done! Look, they're scuttling along the log.
Safety notes
Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
Contains milk, wheat, soy. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
Raw celery is hard to chew for little ones under 4: cut it thin.
Squash blueberries a little for little ones under 4.
Read the label on packets for allergies.
Sticky fingers.
Kitchen science
Every insect has six legs, three on each side. Count your beetle's pretzel legs to check it's a real bug!
Make it your own
Make red beetles with raspberries instead of blueberries.
Use cream cheese on the log for snowy beetles.
Give each beetle two thin pretzel bits at the front for feelers.