Breakfast Made Beautiful
Here at Creative Kid Snacks, we make a lot of funny food and plate art. Breakfast can be made to look like Hello Kitty, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a snail, a whale, or even Mickey Mouse. Sometimes, however, a simple yet beautiful presentation is all it takes for your children to know that they are […]
Flower Pot Snack
When my daughter and I first started making food art, one of the first creative snacks we thought of was this basket of flowers. The best thing about making a flower arrangement is that it is totally customizable. You can make flower out of just about any nutritious food. Fruits and vegetables are especially perfect […]
Cottage Cheese Lamb
Create a little lamb for your little lamb by using some mozzarella cheese cut into somewhat of an oval for the face and little rectangles with a point cut out for the legs. Next, use a small spoon and lay cottage cheese for the head, body, and tail. cut a baby carrot in half for […]
Disney’s "Up" Lunch
One of our favorite Disney movies is their film”Up”. It is a such a good movie to watch with the kids. We love making cute snacks to go along with our favorite Disney movies like we did for with Mike Wazowski from Monster’s Inc, Mickey Mouse, was so creative, and what I love about having […]
I Love You
This Valentines Day inspired snack is plain yogurt served in a heart shaped cookie cutter with grapes, blueberries, and strawberries along with some drizzled honey over top. The “I” is made of celery and the “u” is made of sliced up string cheese. A sweet lunch like this is one way I show my […]
Jonah in the Big Fish
Create the story of Jonah in the belly of the big fish! Big Fish: cantaloupe sliced through without cutting in half; Jonah: Baby carrot with raisin eyes; Spout: cheerios; Eyes and Mouth of Fish: red grapes. Read the story of Jonah and the Big Fish (the book of Jonah in the Old Testament) or in […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We all love the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Take a morning and read the story with your child, then talk about all the foods the caterpillar ate, and perhaps talk about which of the foods he ate were nutritious and which were not. Then, create him yourself! Take a large […]
Healthy Dessert: Airplane
This is a dessert. Make an airplane by slicing a banana in half lengthwise, then taking one of the halves and slicing it at a slight angle about 2/3 of the way through. Arrange the pieces to look like a plane. Add halved brown M&M’s for the windows, half a strawberry for a tail, and […]
The Friendly Mr. Owl
Meet the friendly Mr. Owl. His head/body is a peanut butter sandwich, his eyes are Ritz crackers with blueberries, wings and strawberries. His beak and feet are carrots, and the moon is a banana. I created those stars by placing some plain yogurt in my cake-decorating bag and using the star shaped tip. I’m […]
Helicopter
We saw a helicopter in the sky this morning, so that was today’s creative lunch. A helicopter body is made of a peanut butter sandwich, then baby carrots were positioned for the blades atop the helicopter as well as the feet. Windows are sliced string cheese and clouds are made of cottage cheese. (linked HERE)
House
To make this house, make a sandwich and slice to a square shape. Create a roof out of celery, a door out of strawberry and a raisin doorknob. The window and the chimney are made of carrot. The chimney smoke is cottage cheese and the sidewalk is Triscuit crackers. The little bush outside the house […]
