Birthday Parties

Space Party Food

April 21, 2015 by Amy Hudson

A friend asked for some creative food ideas to serve at her kids’ space themed birthday party. It’s actually a NASA themed party, which is very cool for a theme. Here are some of the best healthy foods to serve at a space themed kids birthday party.

Rocket Wraps

(Via Creative Kid Snacks)

Serve turkey and cheese wraps for a main course. This individual plate can be created by following the recipe here.

Alternatively, you can arrange wraps onto a larger platter as shown in the photo below. You can make as many rockets out of two wraps as desired, and omit the cottage cheese smoke trail and stars.

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Fruit Stars and Moon

(via Amy on Pinterest)

I love this idea. Serve Mango Moons and Kiwi stars dipped in chocolate! Who can resist?

Planet Kabobs

(Via Amy on Pinterest)

Scoop Melon into balls and add to skewers. Place in a foam holder and label “Planet Kabobs”. In addition to melon, you can use red or green grapes, as they are also a great round shape.

Earth Cookies

(via Amy on Pinterest)

Nasa is famous for its amazing photography of planets and stars in our galaxy, so make these earth cookies and display on a black plate or platter for a great addition to your party menu.

Food Craft

Have the kids create their own Solar System with finger foods! Teach them the names of each planet as they arrange them on their plates and then allow them to add their own stars! Solar System Snack directions here.

Party Favors

(via Amy on Pinterest)

Send the kids home with a bag of sugar cookies shaped like a star and a moon. Be sure to use the right kind of icing, as typical buttercream may stick to the clear baggie!

Hosting a themed birthday and looking for healthy and creative menu ideas? Leave a comment on today’s post or on our Facebook wall and let us help you plan a delicious and healthy menu! Be sure to let us know at least 3 weeks before the party to give us time to prepare a post just for you!

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Minnie Mouse Birthday Party Ideas

June 2, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Minnie Mouse is one of the most endearing characters in Disney’s lineup. Sweet, kind, charming, and understanding, she is a great example for little girls to enjoy watching in their favorite movies and TV shows. My girls love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney channel, and today we will be sharing some finger foods for a Minnie Mouse Birthday Party.

Minnie’s Bow Bites

Use little skewers or decorative plastic toothpicks (some great ones are available at the dollar store) – to serve beautiful little bows just like you might find at Minnie’s Bow-tique. These bows are made of two strawberries and one blueberry in the middle.

Minnie Mouse Pudding Cups

Use a few drops of pink food coloring to make vanilla pudding into a pretty pink, then sprinkle some mini chocolate chips over top. Serve with little spoons decorated with Minnie’s bow. I just drew my own (they don’t have to be perfect), and used double sided tape to stick them in place. Don’t want to serve pudding? Use strawberry yogurt instead!

White Chocolate Dipped Minnie Strawberries

Melt 2 cups white chocolate chips in the microwave for 1 minute, stirring every 20 seconds, until smooth. Add a few drops of pink food coloring. Dip fresh strawberries in and lay onto parchment or wax paper. Allow to chill for 15 minutes in refridgerator. Melt 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips in microwave using the same method, and pipe little polka dots onto each of your pink berries. Also try drawing some Minnie Mouse ears, or drizzle with thin lines for decorate look. The amounts of chocolate listed here will yield 16-24 strawberries.

Minnie Mouse White Chocolate Oreo Cookies

Save yourself a little time and hassle by not trying to dip these delicate Minnie faces into melted chocolate!

Using a package of Double Stuff Oreos and a package of Mini Oreos, create little Minnie faces by separating the Mini Oreos into individual chocolate cookies and gently press into the white filling of the Double Stuff Oreos.

Next, melt 1 cup of white chocolate in the microwave by heating for 1 minute, stirring at 20 second intervals, until smooth. Add a few drops of pink food coloring, and spoon into a decorating bag or, even easier, a plastic baggie with a tiny corner snipped off for an opening. Pipe the white chocolate onto each cookie, making sure to connect the large circle on the face with the smaller circles on the ears. This way, when chilled, the chocolate will hold the whole thing together.

Who wouldn’t love a nice treat like this?

More Minnie Mouse Birthday Party Ideas We Love

Source: TurtleMonogram via Amy on Pinterest

Source: Triple M Good Parties at Kara’s Party Ideas via Amy on Pinterest

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Do YOU have a kids birthday party coming up soon? Would you like some creative kid snack ideas for your party? Please let us know on Facebook! I’d love to help you come up with some unique foods to serve! Tell me the theme, and let’s get creative together!

Creative Food Ideas for your next party: Creative Kid Snacks

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Princess Food for a Princess Party

April 25, 2013 by Amy Hudson

What little girl doesn’t love princesses? There’s princess Belle, Cinderella, Snow White, and all of the other Disney princesses, along with the fun of dancing around the living room wearing your princess crown. My girls own several dress-up gowns inspired by the Disney princesses, and love wearing them around the house.

Today, we are sharing some princess birthday party food ideas for a facebook fan planning her daughter’s upcoming event.

Princess Party Food

Cheese Princess Crowns

Simply purchase a package of sliced cheddar cheese. Use a firm cheese, (so not packaged American cheese) so that you will be able to cut it into the shape of little crowns. I made 6 little crowns to show you, and for those I only needed 3 cheese slices. Lay 3 slices on top of each other, then slice in half. Next, on one stack of 3 halves, take your knife and slice little triangles out of the tops.

Carefully separate. Repeat with the other 3 halves, and continue until you have the desired amount.

Princess Castle Sandwiches

Serve these little sandwiches shaped like castles. Simply make a simple turkey sandwich, (or PB&J’s to make it easy for a birthday party), and slice little squares out of the top of the sandwich. Finish the look by adding some cheese on top to look like doors and windows. If you are serving a larger group, you can skip the flags all together, or use some toothpick flags for a cute presentation. These castle sandwiches are perfect little accompaniments to your tea.

Royal Jewels

A simple and easy idea (plus a good way to incorporate fresh fruit into your princess party), is to serve mixed fruit in a bowl and label it “Royal Jewels”. Super easy, right?

“Tea Time” Drinks

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Serve your drinks in a tea set and label it “Princess Tea Time”. The princess party guests will love sipping their drink from a special princess teacup. If you don’t feel like risking using the ceramic ones, go with the plastic kids set. They will love it, and the castle “tea sandwiches” will be perfect alongside!

More Princess Party Ideas:

Princess Parties: Kara’s Party Ideas

Pinterest: Princess Parties Search

And now it’s time for the Weekly Kids Co-op!

As moms, we are constantly on the lookout for great teaching tools and resources to use with our children. I know I always benefit from seeing the creativity of others as they share lessons, activities, crafts, food, and more in their various blogs. Mommy bloggers have become popular for a good reason: information is power. Right, ladies?

The Weekly Kids Co-op is one of my very favorite such resources. I have been linking my snacks to this link party for months now, and I am excited to be able to co-host it here at Creative Kid Snacks.

If you are a blogger, link up your kid related posts to share with all of us eager beaver mommas. If you are a mom, take some time to look through all of the great ideas for teaching and playing with our kids. Pin what you love. Like I said before, information is power!

This party will take place every Thursday at Creative Kid Snacks. You will find it hosted on several other blogs, but the days the party goes live will vary from blog to blog.

Get ready for all the great ideas! Link, share, and enjoy!

Phineas and Ferb Birthday Party Ideas

March 18, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Lori is a Facebook Fan hosting a birthday party for her son with a Phineas and Ferb theme. She is looking for creative food to go along with the Phineas and Ferb theme. There are so many cute ideas for this theme out there, which I’ll mention at the end of this post, but here were the two easiest and cutest ideas I could think of

Create these little Phineas cheese and cracker bites using the following ingredients.

Ingredients: string cheese, triangular Triscuit crackers, spreadable cheese.
Spoon a few teaspoons of spreadable cheese into a disposable plastic baggie. Snip a tiny corner off of the bag. Pipe a little cheese onto the cracker to adhere the string cheese eye. Slice string cheese into wheels. Place one wheel on each cracker, using the spreadable cheese as “glue”. Next, pipe hair on the back of the triangle, an eye on the string cheese, and a mouth. Chill for at least 15 minutes. Enjoy!

To make these Phineas S’more bites, zap a graham cracker in the microwave at full power for 15 seconds. Slice into triangles. Next, melt a bar of Hershey’s chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute in a glass bowl, stirring at 20 second intervals using a rubber spatula. Spoon melted chocolate into a plastic baggie with a tiny corner sliced off for piping. Pipe a drop of chocolate onto graham cracker where eye will be. This will serve as “glue” for the marshmallow eye. Place a mini marshmallow on the chocolate “glue”, then pipe an eyeball and a smile onto each one. Chill for at least 15 minutes. The kids will love this!

**Take these a step further by laying them on wax paper, then piping some melted white chocolate dyed red for Phineas’ hair. Chill on the wax paper for at least 30 minutes.

There are SO many adorable Phineas and Ferb food creations available out there! After creating these for your post, Lori, I saw that there lots of fun finger foods out there for you to try. Here are some of my favorites.

Phineas and Ferb Fruit from Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons

Mini Phineas and Ferb Sandwiches from Hawai’is Bento Box Cookbook

Phineas and Ferb Cookies from DisneyFamily.com

And here are the results for a Pinterest Search of Phineas and Ferb Cakes. So many cute ideas, Lori!

Have a great party!

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party Ideas

March 8, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Lori from our Facebook page has a birthday party coming up. Her little girl loves both Hello Kitty and Strawberry shortcake. She asked for some ideas for either of those themes. Perhaps seeing some inspiration will help her make that decision . . . or maybe she’ll decide to combine them!

These ideas are a mix of my own and other party planners far more talented than me! Let’s start with Strawberry Shortcake for today.

Strawberry Shortcake Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Fruit Platter

Place two small bowls of balled watermelon along with one small container of green grapes in the top section of a platter for Strawberry’s hat. Garnish the top of the hat with a strawberry. Next, place a bowl of fruit dip below the hat for her face. To make Strawberry’s face, I used two blueberries as eyes, a strawberry for her mouth, a few strawberry leaves (you could also use mint) for her eyelashes, and several mini chocolate chips for her freckles. Finish by filling in the space around the face with whole strawberries as hair. This is sure to be a hit!

Individual Strawberry Shortcake Cups

Another healthy option for the party is to serve little cups of Greek yogurt (you could use vanilla or control the sugar content a bit more by swirling your own honey into plain Greek yogurt), then topping with chopped strawberries along with a few graham crackers for dipping. Greek yogurt will be a nice little source of protein for the kids to eat in the midst of the rest of the party food.

More Strawberry Shortcake Ideas

Make these mini strawberry shortcake poppers from Snappy Gourmet

Serve these gorgeous white chocolate dipped strawberries and dipped oreos from Wonderfully Made Events.

Serve a refreshing strawberry lemonade along with water bottles covered with adorable printable wrappers; by Wonderfully Made Events.

You can also have the kids make their own Strawberry Shortcakes. Jill from Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons has a super easy and adorable recipe.

Don’t these strawberry shaped cake pops by Wonderfully Made Events look fabulous?

Use bright pink, red, and green decorations to create a festive look for your (sure-to-be) amazing Strawberry Shortcake Party.

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Peter Pan Party Ideas

February 15, 2013 by Amy Hudson

It’s time for another party ideas post! This time, we are helping Deena, who is hosting a Peter Pan / Pirate themed birthday party.

There are so many great ideas out there, and most of them are adorable, tasty, sweets. I will share some of those ideas later in the post, but we are going to focus on healthier options in our party posts.

(By the way, if you are hosting a kid’s birthday party soon, share the theme and when the party is taking place on our Facebook page, and we will create a post tailored to you with at least 3 healthy, creative ideas for the party).

Peter Pan Birthday Party Food

The kids will love to nibble on this Peter Pan Veggie Tray. Layer cucumbers in the shape of a green shirt with points at the bottom, just like Peter Pan wears. Add celery for his legs. I have 3 celery sticks on top of each other in this tray. Roll several slices of turkey for his face. Now, give Peter some shoes, arms, and hair using baby carrots as shown. Finish with a blueberry eye and a smile. I used summer sausage. A sure hit!

Another fun snack to put out at the party are these easy apple and cheese pirate ships. Slice an apple, then use a plastic toothpick (I get mine from the dollar store), and push it through a slice of colby jack cheese to look like a sail. Simple and delicious!

Try a “make your own bagel” station with sliced bagels covered with plain cream cheese. Use cucumbers, thinly sliced carrots, ham, and olives to design your own pirate ship or Peter Pan bagel.

Not feeling adventurous enough to let the kids make their own during the party? Serve this as lunch for your child the day before the party to build up the anticipation!

(Source: Love and Olive Oil via Amy on Pinterest)

Place some pixie sticks in a mason jar and label them “Pixie Dust” – such an easy and cute idea! You can try making your own by clicking the link in the caption or just buy some at the store.

More resources to plan a great Peter Pan Party:

Peter Pan Captain Hook Boy or Girl party via Kara’s Party Ideas

Swoon: Peter Pan Party Reveal Part 1

Swoon: Peter Pan Party Reveal Part 2

Best of luck with the party, Deena! Remember to head over to Facebook and share YOUR upcoming party theme with us!

Cucumber and Hummus Cupcakes

January 25, 2013 by Amy Hudson

I have a recipe for the most healthy cupcake you will ever eat! I am working on some ideas for our Facebook friend Amber’s upcoming cupcake party, and today I’m showing you how to make a super healthy cupcake!

By the way, we also put together some cute, healthy ideas for her other child’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Party. Check them out!

Aren’t they cute? Not as sweet as a regular cupcake, but you certainly can feel much better about munching on these during a cupcake party!

Our veggie cupcakes are made out of two ingredients: cucumber and hummus.

Prepare the “cupcake wrappers”

Peel a cucumber, then take a fork and, while firmly pressing down, pull the fork from one end of the cucumber to the other. This will create little grooves that will look like little cupcake wrappers!

Slice your scored cucumber into approximately 3/4 inch thick sections. You want the cucumbers to be thick enough to hold your hummus, but thin enough to take a bite from.

Once you have cut your cucumber into sections, take a melon baller and scoop approximately 2/3 of the middle out of the cucumber.

Icing your cucpcakes

I used a star shaped tip with a large opening. This will create a beautiful, fluffy frosting look on your finished product.

Fill your piping bag with hummus. I used classic hummus but there are lots of yummy flavors you could use such as pine nut, roasted garlic, basil pesto, or roasted red pepper.

Starting in the center, pipe a large dollop of hummus and then swirl your piping bag around until you are happy with the look of your little cupcakes.

For a finishing touch, I added a sliver of red pepper in the center. See how pretty they turned out?

If you have a theme for your child’s upcoming birthday party and you want to pick our brains here at Creative Kid Snacks, simply post a message for us on our Facebook Wall telling us your theme and the date of the party, and we will come up with at least 3 healthy options to put out at your party to go along with your theme! Make sure you’ve “liked” us too so that you can be sure to see your special post!

Creative Birthday Party Food: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

January 13, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Today’s party ideas are for Amber’s upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Party.

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One of our Facebook friends, Amber, asked for some cute food ideas for her son’s upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday party. I hadn’t realized that the beloved Ninjas had made a comeback and have lately become popular for the kids!

In case you need a refresher, here they are!

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Following are some ideas for this Cowabunga-mazing party!

1) Serve PIZZA

You have to have the turtles’ favorite dish as one of your main courses!

2) Donny’s drink

Super easy to make and more festive than regular drinks, these turtle beverages are sure to get a comment or two from your guests. There’s even a cute little tie in the back. The best part? You can write the kids’ names on the construction paper mask once they are handed out!

See how they are made HERE.

3) Ninja Turtle Party Apples

These guys would be adorable to either serve along with all of the party food, or even to wrap up in cellophane and send home as little favors. See how they are made HERE.

4) Leonardo’s Sword

Option 1: plain celery

Option 2: peanut butter swords

I found these tiny skewers at the dollar store. Slice celery, making some small and some long pieces. Slide a small piece horizontally down the skewer. Next, slide the long piece on vertically. They hold up and look just like a little sword!

5) Donatello’s Bo

Pretzel rods look just like Donatello’s bo.

If you wanted to jazz these up a bit, you could buy some peel-able Twizzlers and wrap some around the middle for the grip.

6) Turtle Shell cake (or Rice Krispy) pops

A friend of mine got the above cake pan on amazon and made adorable cake-sickles for her girl’s birthday. We’ve all seen the round cake pops that look like a ball, but I had never seen one like this.

For the TMNT party, make cake, rice krispy treats, brownies, or cookies in the pan and frost with buttercream frosting to look like a turtle shell. Use brown and green and make something like the following pattern:

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Spread the brown frosting all over the surface first, then pipe the green frosting on in this pattern. Practice on a piece of wax paper first. You can even add some green or chocolate sprinkles over the top for some texture!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Apples

December 28, 2012 by Amy Hudson

Got a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan in the house? Try these Ninja Turtle Apples for a party favor.

I am working on a post full of ideas for one of Creative Kid Snacks’ Facebook fans, Amber. She asked me for some ideas on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday party.

I have a bunch of ideas to share for this upcoming party, but I couldn’t wait to share this one with all of you! I remember watching the Ninja Turtles when I was growing up; and they have come back and have become quite popular on Nickelodeon.

What we are making today are a healthy version of caramel apples. Green apples piped with white and dark chocolate, chilled, then enjoyed.

Creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Apples

Start by melting approximately 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips. (This will be for only the whites of the eyes, more white chips will be melted later to create the colored chocolate). I added a 1/2 teaspoon of vegetable oil just to make sure the resulting consistency would be smooth enough to pipe onto the apples. Melt the chocolate by microwaving it for one minute, stirring at 20 second intervals. Total melt time for this amount of chocolate will be between 45 seconds and 1 minute.

Once the white chocolate is ready, spoon into a piping bag or a plastic zip bag with a tiny corner snipped off and pipe little ovals onto each apple. Chill in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.

Next, microwave 1 1/2 – 2 cups of white chocolate chips, depending on how many apples you want to make. Add 1-2 teaspoons of vegetable oil. Microwave for approximately one minute, stirring at 20 second intervals.

Divide the melted chocolate into 4 small bowls (or as many bowls as you want colors of headbands). To make it easier on yourself you could choose one turtle to make and color all of the chocolate that color.

Add food coloring to the chocolate. I use the Wilton gel food coloring. The colors are very true. Again, make as few or as many colors as you like, depending upon how ambitious you are.

Once your colored chocolate is ready, spoon it into a piping bag (I suggest a simple zip bag with a tiny corner sliced off if you are making all four colors, because washing out a piping bag and attachment between every color will be a lot of work).

Pipe around the whites of the eyes you’ve already created. You will make a figure eight around them. Then, continue the color around to the back of the head. Connect your circle, then add a tie and two hanging sections. It may help to put the apple down and pick up again to get a better position for your piping hand.

Once all of your masks are finished, chill again in the fridge until hardened.

Lastly, melt 1/2 – 1 cup dark chocolate chips, (depending on how many turtles you are making). In my experience, adding oil is not necessary because dark chocolate chips seems to melt into a smoother consistency than white chocolate chips. Again, melt for approximately 1 minute, stirring at 20 second intervals.

TIP: Melt chocolate in a glass bowl as opposed to ceramic. Use a wooden spoon or plastic spatula as opposed to a metal spoon. The ceramic and metal conduct more heat, which ends up cooking the chocolate more than it should be, and could result in clumpy, useless chocolate.

Place your melted dark chocolate into a piping bag of your choice, and make eyes and mouths for each turtle. When I looked up the turtles, I saw the mouth that looked like an elongated figure eight as shown in the photo below.

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I drew a mix of regular smiles and those elongated figure eight expressions on the turtles. They came out pretty cute, I thought. By the way, the orange melted chocolate on Michelangelo is the result of me accidentally adding too much oil to the white chocolate before I melted it. If you add too much oil, that is what will happen. I left him in there to show you, so that you make sure to get it right!

Lastly, insert your popsicle sticks to make them look like a caramel apple.

How fun is this serve at your theme party? Mostly apple, not too much sweet, and the perfect little extra for the party! You could even wrap these in cellophane and send them home as favors!

Cowabunga, dude!

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Space Party Food

Rocket Wraps

Fruit Stars and Moon

Planet Kabobs

Earth Cookies

Food Craft

Party Favors

Minnie Mouse Birthday Party Ideas

Minnie’s Bow Bites

Minnie Mouse Pudding Cups

White Chocolate Dipped Minnie Strawberries

Minnie Mouse White Chocolate Oreo Cookies

More Minnie Mouse Birthday Party Ideas We Love

Princess Food for a Princess Party

Princess Party Food

Cheese Princess Crowns

Princess Castle Sandwiches

Royal Jewels

“Tea Time” Drinks

More Princess Party Ideas:

And now it’s time for the Weekly Kids Co-op!

Phineas and Ferb Birthday Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Fruit Platter

Individual Strawberry Shortcake Cups

More Strawberry Shortcake Ideas

Peter Pan Party Ideas

Peter Pan Birthday Party Food

Cucumber and Hummus Cupcakes

Prepare the “cupcake wrappers”

Icing your cucpcakes

Creative Birthday Party Food: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Apples

Creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Apples

TIP: Melt chocolate in a glass bowl as opposed to ceramic. Use a wooden spoon or plastic spatula as opposed to a metal spoon. The ceramic and metal conduct more heat, which ends up cooking the chocolate more than it should be, and could result in clumpy, useless chocolate.

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