Robot Snacks

I was looking through the pictures on my camera the other day, and I found these and realized I had totally forgotten I had wanted to write this post! So, my son's birthday was back in November. When a child in his class has a birthday, that child will bring in treats to share with the other kids. When I asked him what he would like to take he flat out told me he didn't want to take doughnuts or cupcakes. Those were common birthday items other kids had brought. My son's not a big fan of doughnuts, and I didn't want to just go pick up a pack of something. I wanted us to make something together. About a year ago I had seen a variation of these robot snacks on Pinterest, I showed a picture to my son and he LOVED the idea. So these are the ones we came up with.

These were so easy and fun to make. My son continually referred to these as 'his robot army'. It was so cute. So here are our supplies. fruit cups (I used mandarin oranges and peaches) Juice boxes construction paper hot glue gun glue stick (not pictured: plastic spoons, googly eyes, and smarties)

To start out with I drew rectangle shapes on the construction paper and had my son cut them out. We then used glue to attach the paper to the juice boxes. At first we used the liquid glue, but it was way easier, (and less messy), with a glue stick.

With a hot glue gun we then attached the smarties for the arms. Just a tiny bit on the end of the wrapper.

Make sure there are 2 arms :)

Squeeze some hot glue onto the top of a fruit cup and then flip it over to sit upside down on the juice box.

Using the hot glue gun again, attach the plastic spoon to the back of the robot.
It won't be completely vertical, the fruit cup kind of pushes the spoon back. (This was the robot army's weapon according to my son :) ).

Glue some googly eyes on the front of the fruit cups and you're done!

Here is a view from the side. My son was SO excited to take these guys to school the next day. When we walked into the classroom he was so proud to show his teacher what he had made :).