I had a rare opportunity tonight in the kitchen with only my oldest. I had just gotten home from a meeting and the younger two were upstairs having bedtime story time with their daddy.

My oldest daughter wandered into the kitchen and wondered what I was up to. I told her I was making Big Girl Bird Seed. She was intrigued and said she wanted to help.

Little one and I are headed out tomorrow for a Bird Watching Adventure so I wanted a little treat to take along. Our ingredients:

  • 5 cups Cheerios
  • 5 cups Rice Chex
  • 1 lb. bag M&M’s
  • 10 oz. bag of Mini Pretzels
  • 2 pkg. of White Chips
  • 2 T. Vegetable Oil

Mix everything except the White Chips and Vegetable Oil in a big bowl. Melt the Chips mixed with the oil.

Pour the melted mixture over the bowl of yumminess.

Stir it together and pour it onto a pan to set.

I had halved the recipe and Taylor didn’t think it had quite enough White, so we decided to melt a few Chocolate chips to drizzle over the top.

After it sets you break it apart a bit and put it into an air tight container.

Now we have a snack and our Bird Watching Bucket all ready to go. We just need to find the binoculars.

Today we saw a hawk gliding through the sky on our walk home from school. It was beautiful and the girls loved watching it. We can’t wait to see what we will find tomorrow.

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