Once upon a time there was a little girl named Princess Kaitlyn. She lived in a beautiful castle by an enchanted forest, a magical lake and a fantastically fun playground. One day Princess Kaitlyn ran through the castle grounds to the fantastically fun playground when she stopped dead in her tracks. In front of her stood an EMPTY playground!
Instead of all the slides, monkey bars, rock climbing wall, and swings, stood green and red circles. They looked like gigantic stepping stones. She noticed the not-so nice, slithery snack Serano slowing moving around the playground.
Princess Kaitlyn walked over to Serano and asked him what happened to all her playground equipment. He explained that it was a game and that she had to use the red and green stepping stones to build a path from one side of the playground to the other. She could use mud, rocks, feathers or whatever she needed to build her path. Once she made it across the stepping stones, Serano would return the playground to it's fantastically fun state.
So, Princess Kaitlyn started creating a path to get across the super sad playground landscape. She added some mud onto a green disk with some rocks to give her traction. Then she added mud and feathers to the red disk to cushion her jump onto it. She continued this pattern on each green and red stepping stone until she made it across. When she reached the other side, she looked at Serano with her hands on her hips and big wide eyes waiting for him to return her playground back to normal. He lived up to his end of the deal and with a twirl of his slithery tail, a twist of his snake noggin and two blinks of his yellow eyes, the fantastically fun playground returned.
Princess Kaitlyn's Stepping Stone Apple Snacks
Ingredients
- 1 green apple
- 1 red apple
- peanut butter
- chocolate chips
- caramel sauce
- coconut
- dried cherries or cranberries (optional)
Princess Kaitlyn's mommy sliced the apples into thin 'stepping stones' for Princess Kaitlyn to decorate. She decided to spread peanut butter and chocolate chips on the green granny smith apples and caramel and coconut on the red apple. We adapted this recipe from a kid friendly cookbook and it also recommends dried fruit and oatmeal as a potential topping.
The great part about this is that despite the sweet toppings, Princess Kaitlyn opted for the plain apple in the end.
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