snack question

[kidzmom]

Does anyone have any creative ideas for decorating the snack station? I like the image of the pizza and robot fine, but I'm trying to think of other props I could use as well to make it more festive.

Also, a couple of the snacks won't work for us. We don't have much time and I need to have them ready to serve. We have about 200 kids a night to get through with about 15 minutes for each group and maybe 5 minutes in between.

We are weeding out the veggie daniel for sure, and maybe one more. Any ideas?

Jackie K.

[emiefaith]

We changed the first day's snack. Instead of the whole stick basket thing (too much prep), we're using pre-made strawberry shortcake cups and instead of jelly beans, we're using strawberries.

Hope that helps a little....we're keeping our decor pretty simple.

[kidzmom]

The shortcake cups are a great idea! Wish I would have thought of it before I sent the supply list out...For what its worth, we made a similar snack one year with chow mein noodles and butterscotch chips called "Haystacks" I was sure the kids wouldn't touch them, but they loved them and a few parents even asked for the recipe. That recipe was simpler, I think just the chips melted and the noodles stirred in. Then I used an ice cream scoop to make mounds on wax paper.

When is your VBS? Ours starts Aug 6. Great because I've had a lot of time to look at what everyone else has done for ideas since I'm helping with decorations too. I'm so glad I found these message boards...Who would have thought? vbs message boards?

As for decorations, I am trying to find the space blankets (for cheap) that was mentioned on another thread. I thought I could use them on the tables at the snack station.

[emiefaith]

our vbs is this week, July 23-27...whew!! almost ready.

[marion]

Idea for snacks if using the sonforce kids on Monday night for Trust Im using string frenchfries, Half a hot dog wrapped in cheese. The fries are placed around the hot dog to resemble the basket and the cheese and hotdog represent moses wrapped in a blanket.