Fun and Easy Snacks to Make With Kids
Help children make snacks that teach them basic cooking skills, including reading recipes, measuring, spreading, pouring, mixing, microwaving and freezing. Children will learn to enjoy cooking and develop an understanding of how to combine ingredients in tasty ways. Choose colorful snacks that include protein and a fruit or vegetable so they will be healthy and filling. Does this Spark an idea?
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Pear Rollups
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Roll pears and cheese into a tortilla for a simple snack that is easy for kids to eat. The parent should thinly slice a pear and let the children do the rest of the work. The children should sprinkle cheddar or another type of cheese on a whole wheat tortilla and lay pear slices over most of the tortilla. Microwave the snack for 20 to 30 seconds to melt the cheese and roll it up. A child can eat it like a burrito or the parent can slice it into bite-sized rounds. For a different twist, substitute a thin layer of almond butter or peanut butter for the cheese.
Snack Kabobs
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Eating snacks off a stick is far more fun than eating them off a plate. In addition, threading the snacks onto the stick gives children practice with hand-eye coordination and pattern formation. Children can carefully thread an assortment of cheese cubes, bread cubes and pieces of fruit onto wooden skewers, then eat them -- with care.
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Peanut Butter Dip
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Children can practice measuring and stirring while making a tasty vegetable dip. Measure 1/2 cup plain yogurt, 1/2 cup peanut butter and 2 tbsp. honey into a mixing bowl. If needed, use a spatula to get the ingredients out of their measuring cups. Mix them all together using a spoon or whisk. The parent should slice cucumber sticks, celery sticks or carrot sticks for dipping.
Layered Ice Pops
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Rather than serving ice pops filled with sweeteners and artificial colors, use healthy ingredients and real fruit juice to make your own ice pops. These need to be made the day before so they have time to freeze before being eaten. For layered ice pops, you need yogurt and fruit juice. Children can spoon yogurt into the bottom of each compartment in an ice pop mold and put a craft stick in each compartment. Freeze for an hour before pouring fruit juice in for the next layer. Continue freezing for an hour and adding an alternating layer until the compartments are full. Simple ice pops can just have two layers, while others can have up to a dozen thin layers.
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