Donut Dog Deliciousness

This donut dog gave me such a fun excuse to buy donuts, which I think is OK once in a while. Sometimes the not-so-good-for-you snacks are a fun treat! I made this dog with a variety pack of Sara Lee donuts and Sara Lee donut holes, but you could use any donuts from your favorite shop.Or you could make something else. You could make the trip down to the bakery and decide what you want to make out of pastries once you see what they have. This creates a whole outing around getting excited about buying and playing with food. And getting excited about foods in any way is a great step toward getting excited about eating foods!I do love donuts, though! Donuts have their own special, amazing texture that's somewhere between a dissolvable/meltable texture and a mechanical soft texture. They're a pretty easy food for kids with oral motor weakness to chew, so it can be a good 'junk food' snack for these kiddos.The Donut Dog is also part of the Animal Alphabet e-book which you can get for FREE by signing up here for the free resource library! It's one more way to add food learning to your child's day!Reading books about food is a great way to add food learning to times when there’s no pressure to eat. As you work on letter identification or finding letters and sounds, you can also talk about the different foods, how they grow, how we can cook them, how your child might have seen them before.Enjoy and happy food play!