2. Crush the cookies into teeny pieces. Use the back of a spoon or place in a resealable bag and smash them with a rolling pin or your hands! Set half aside.
3. Stir the crushed cookies into the pudding.
4. Place the dirt pudding into a large bowl.
5. Sprinkle remaining cookie crumbs over the top of the pudding.
6. Stick gummy worms into the pudding for effect.
Ingredients
6 to 8 bananas
2¼ cups milk
1 box vanilla wafers
1 small box banana instant pudding
Directions
1. Slice the bananas into bite-size pieces.
2. Line the bottom and the sides of a large bowl with vanilla wafers.
3. Place banana slices on the bottom layer of vanilla wafers.
4. Add another layer of vanilla wafers.
5. Continue until the bowl is almost full of bananas and wafers.
6. Make the banana pudding according to the directions on the box.
7. Before it starts to set, pour the liquid pudding over the bananas and cookies.
8. Decorate the top with extra cookies.
9. Cover with plastic and refrigerate.
Ingredients
2 packages blueberry gelatin
1 small clean glass fishbowl
½ cup blueberries
½ cup grapes
1 package gummy fish
1 package gummy sharks
1 package gummy flowers
1 package gummy worms
1 thick pretzel rod
1 package red string licorice
Directions
1. In a bowl, prepare gelatin according to directions on package.
2. Refrigerate for one hour.
3. While the Jell-O is gelling, add blueberries and grapes to bottom of fishbowl; these are the rocks on the bottom.
4. While it is still soft, spoon the gelatin over the fruit; this is the water.
5. Push the gummy fish, sharks, and flowers into the gelatin.
6. Place in refrigerator; serve cold.
7. To make a fishing pole, tie some red string licorice to a gummy worm, place a pretzel rod on top of the fishbowl, and attach the red string licorice to it.
Ingredients
6 to 10 mini bagels
1 cup spaghetti or pizza sauce of your choice
variety of sliced cheeses of your choice
sliced pepperoni or bologna
Directions
1. Cut bagels in half.
2. Spread pizza sauce on each half.
3. Cut cheese to fit and place as next layer.
4. Cut bologna to fit or add pepperoni as next layer.
5. Top with another layer of cheese.
6. Place in microwave for twenty seconds or until cheese is melted.
7. Serve immediately while still warm.
Ingredients
1 package thick-sliced bologna
1 package sliced cheese
Directions
1. Place one slice of bologna on a microwavable plate.
2. Break cheese into several pieces, each the size of a half-dollar.
3. Place pieces of cheese in the center of the slice of bologna.
4. Microwave for twenty seconds.
5. As it cooks, the bologna will curve into a bowl that holds the melted cheese.
6. Serve immediately while still warm.
Ingredients
sliced bread, whole wheat or white, your choice
variety of sliced lunch meats: chicken, turkey, ham, or roast beef
an assortment of fun-shaped cookie cutters
sliced cheese, your choice
lettuce
sliced tomatoes
sliced onions
ketchup
mustard
mayonnaise
Directions
1. Choose your bread and lunch meat.
2. Choose a cookie cutter.
3. Cut your bread and meat into matching shapes, then place shaped meat on bread.
4. Stack your sandwich with your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, and/or onions.
5. Add ketchup, mustard, and/or mayonnaise for flavor and color.
6. Enjoy your custom-made, fun-shaped sandwich!
Ingredients
all the leftover meat from Sassy’s Sassy Sandwiches
all the leftover lettuce, tomatoes, and onions from Sassy’s Sassy Sandwiches
soft sandwich wraps — red or green or plain
1 bag shredded cheese (optional)
¼ cup mayonnaise or soft cream cheese
Directions
1. Chop leftover meat and cheese into very small pieces.
2. Toss everything into a mixing bowl.
3. Mix leftovers with the mayonnaise or cream cheese. Add shredded cheese if desired.
4. Place the wrap filling into the soft shells.
5. Fold the shells and serve, or refrigerate and save for later.
6. Looks ugly — tastes great!
Sharon Draper is the acclaimed author of many books for young people, including the New York Times bestseller Out of My Mind, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award winners Copper Sun and Forged by Fire and the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award winner Tears of a Tiger.
Ms. Draper is also the author of the popular Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs series, as well as November Blues and The Battle of Jericho, both Coretta Scott King Honor Books.
Ms. Draper was the 1997 National Teacher of the Year and has been honored at the White House six times. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband.
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Sassy: The Silver Secret copyright © 2010 by Sharon M. Draper.
Sassy: The Dazzle Disaster Dinner Party copyright © 2010 by Sharon M. Draper.
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