What are some quick and easy snacks for children to enjoy?

Question

I want to know some quick and easy snacks to serve for my nieces, nephews, and godchildren to enjoy. I don't particularly have the motherly instinct (that's why I don't have children of my own) to think of what children enjoy to eat. But mainly I hope it to be nutritious. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

you could make Ants on a log

Heres the recipe

INGREDIENTS
5 stalks celery
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup raisins
DIRECTIONS
Cut the celery stalks in half. Spread with peanut butter. Sprinkle with raisins.



Heres a whole bunch u could try:


Fruit on a Stick – Cut up a bunch of different fruits such as apples, bananas, kiwis, mango and add a few grapes. Thread them onto a skewer for a delicious summer time treat. To make it a little more special add a few pieces of marshmallows between the fruit.




Quick Banana Ice - Take a few bananas and mash them in a bowl. Cover and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Remove from freezer, fluff up with fork for a healthy, ice cream like treat.



Pitta Pizza – Spread a little tomato sauce on a pitta bread and cut into small triangular pieces. Top with a little grated cheese and place in a moderately heated oven for about 5 to 10 minutes until the cheese melts and starts to bubble.



Sweet Tortilla Shapes – Using small fun shaped cookie cutters cut fun shapes out of a tortilla (wrap). Place on non stick cookie sheet and lightly brush with a little butter. Lightly sprinkle (you only need a little) with a mixture of 1 part cinnamon and 3 parts brown sugar and bake in a moderately hot oven for 10 minutes for a sweet and crispy treat.



Frozen Mandarin Wedges – Peel a few mandarin slices and cover in plastic wrap. Place in the freezer for about an hour for a thirst quenching treat.



Banana Wheels – Place a cup or so of cheerios in a plastic bag and using the back of your hand or a rolling pin flatten until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Slice a banana into rounds and place a few at a time in the plastic bag. Shake lightly to cover the banana pieces (banana wheels) with the cheerios mixture.



Mini Wraps – Lightly spread a tortilla with a little cream cheese and place one or two slices of thin ham or turkey over the cream cheese. Roll tightly and cut into small rounds.



Jiggly Fruit – Make a portion of strawberry flavored jello per package instructions and place in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Open and drain a can of fruit cocktail and add to the jello and mix. Place back in the fridge until jello is fully set.



Ants on boats – Cut a few apple wedges and spread thinly with peanut butter. Add a few raisins over the peanut butter and enjoy. You can also use cream cheese instead of peanut butter.



Pick and Mix – Kids seem to really enjoy finger foods rather than eating too much of one thing. A great snack is to place a selection of finger foods on a serving plate and let the kids choose. You can serve a combination of foods like carrot sticks, cucumber rounds, cherry tomatoes, pretzels or pretzel sticks, small savory crackers, bread sticks, little cubes or slices of cheese, small slices of ham or turkey, grapes and other pieces of cut up fruit, mini muffins, and dried fruit such as raisins or apricots.

Answer 2

I keep grapes, which are easy to wash and serve; apples, which I cut up for the younger children; and muffins or cupcakes are always a hit around here.

Any fruit and fruit juices are always better than sodas and candy and the children hardly know they aren't getting refined sugar!

Snack mixes are easy to prepare also and children can help put it together. You can let your imagination run wild or ask the children what they would like in it. Cereal, sunflower seeds, raisins, and nuts are some of the things I use.

Izzy~

Answer 3

Homemade Fruit Shakes

100% Fruit Juice

Celery spread with Peanut Butter or Cream Cheese

Hummus with Carrot &/ or Celery Sticks

Blueberries

Strawberries

Bananas

Grapes (they are even good frozen! Cut them in 1/2 if the kids are young.)

Raisins

Frozen Fruit Bars

Fudgsicles (very low calories)

Light popcorn (depending on how old the kids are.)

Sunflower Seeds & Nuts (as long as the child is over 4 years old.)

Energy Drinks like Gatorade

Pretzels

Answer 4

These are a piece of cake to make and the kids will have fun helping you, or you could sweep them out of your kitchen
You sound perhaps older from others so try these. Change the fillings to go down well in your part of the world, and you may even start a new trend in your neck of the woods.

Rolls.

Take a slice of sandwich bread and spread it with butter or margarine.
With a corner of a square or rectangle of bread pointing toward you, place across bread corner to corner the filling and roll up.
Fillings to consider:
Shredded chicken with some s&p or mayo
Asparagus spears
Surimi, a few slim slices of lettuce and a seafood dressing.
Present with the open ends upper-most, so people will see the filling they want to eat.
Good Luck Grannie

Answer 5

Cheese and crackers are soo good! But cheese is something to moderate so you wouldn't be able to give them too many peices.. But it is fun to cut out the cheese in perfect slices to put on crackers and lay them out on a plate. Maybe some apples and cheese, a little bit of cheese and more apple. Other fruits and vegetables work well too. The fun part is arranging it on a plate all fancy or cute.

Answer 6

Celery sticks with peanuts butter, and raisins of they like them. making mini pizzas with biscuit dough, shredded cheese and pepperoni slices, raw veggies with ranch dip are a big hit with kids. You can pour fruit juice in an ice tray. cover the tray with plastic wrap. poke toothpicks in for "handles", let the juice freeze, and you have home made Popsicles. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Well let's see....
Fruits are always good, apples, pears, strawberries, grapes, bananas, cantaloupes, melons....
Veggies: Celery sticks, carrots-raw, broccoli (my daughter likes this one alot)
Granola bars, rice krispies squares
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Celery and peanut butter
Cereal: Cheerios, Nesquik cereal, Corn pops
Jello, pudding
Sometimes exotic fruits peak their interest too, like Starfruit, Dragon fruit, Kiwi, Mangoes

Have fun!!

Answer 8

you never want to give high-sugar stuff, but sweets are always really enjoyable. so to get a sweet and healthy snack, give sugar free hawaiin punch. also, every kid loves frozen grapes, so dont forget those. the're simple and easy to make. You can also make things like apple juice ice cubes. but, if you do want to have a little sugar, do something like chocolate covered frozen bananas. also animal crackers are good.

i hope i helped!

Answer 9

My nephew loves dry cereal. He will munch on a small cup full of Trix or Corn Pops all afternoon.

Answer 10

Depends on ages
baby carrots and ranch dressing
animal crackers
tubes of yogurt
Graham crackers and peanut butter
apples and peanut butter
grapes