Kitchen science: A ladybug's red back is really two hard wing covers, like a pair of tiny doors that keep its thin flying wings safe underneath.
Ladybugs on a Log for kids: the whole recipe
Ladybugs on a log! They flew all this way just to nap on celery. Let's build them. 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
¼ cup cream cheese
6 cherry tomatoes
36 olive slices
1 handful raisins
Tools
A cutting board, A sharp knife (grown-up), A butter knife.
Steps
Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts 2 sticks of celery into 4-inch logs and cuts 6 cherry tomatoes in half.
Spread ¼ cup of cream cheese along each log with a blunt knife.
Set the tomato halves on the cream cheese, cut side down.
Press 36 olive slices onto the red backs for spots, three on each ladybug.
Tuck 1 handful of raisins in at the front of each ladybug for a head.
Your ladybugs are done! Watch one crawl along the log.
Safety notes
Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
Contains milk. 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.
Round, slippery foods are a choking risk for little ones under 4: cut them in quarters.
Sticky fingers.
Kitchen science
A ladybug's red back is really two hard wing covers, like a pair of tiny doors that keep its thin flying wings safe underneath.
Make it your own
Make a green ladybug: a halved grape for the back and a blueberry for the head.
Spread the logs with sunflower seed butter instead of cream cheese.
Use a cucumber stick for the log instead of celery.