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Elsa Snack from Disney’s Frozen

November 6, 2014 by Amy Hudson

“Let it Go, Let it Go”, “Do you want to build a snowman?”, “For the first time in Forever” . . . Frozen songs have been playing in our house for months, without either daughter ever getting tired of them!  Frozen characters like Elsa and Anna are among the most popular Halloween costumes, birthday party themes, and clothing, backpack, and lunch bag designs.  I decided to surprise my little Frozen fan with a nutritious and beautiful Elsa snack!

Beautiful Elsa Snack made from Bananas, Greek Yogurt, Cheese, and Fruit.  Love!  Can't wait to try this!

Ingredients:

1 banana

1 1/2 slices white cheese (mozzarella or provolone work well)

3 T greek yogurt

1 each – blueberry, strawberry, grape

Directions:

Slice a curved banana in half lengthwise (use a curved one as opposed to a straighter one).  Set aside.  Trim cheese to an oval shape for Elsa’s face.  Use a knife to cut almond shapes for elsa’s eyes out of the cheese as well.  Place face onto plate.  Slice a blueberry in half, and place atop almond shaped cheese for Elsa’s eyes.  Slice a triangle nose along with a handful of thin lines out of remaining cheese and set aside.  Slice a strawberry in half and then cut the widest part off  of the top of one of the halves for Elsa’s mouth.  Add one banana half to the right of Elsa’s face.  Trim a small amount from the other banana half to place on the top of her head.  Next, take the thin cheese strips and arrange on top of the banana in a criss-cross pattern to look like a braid.  I used a couple of thin banana strips on the top of this Elsa’s head.

Spoon several tablespoons of greek or plain yogurt into a zip bag.  Trim off a tiny corner of the bag.  Pipe the yogurt in a circular pattern at the intersection of the two bananas to cover that and look like a flower.  Next, pipe some simple snowflakes all around the plate to reinforce the winter theme!  Finally, take a couple thin slices of grapes and place next to the yogurt “flower” to resemble little leaves.

My little Frozen fan LOVED this snack!  If you enjoyed this snack, be sure to check out our other Disney snacks as well as our movie inspired creations!

Filed Under: Disney, Elsa, Frozen, movies Tagged With: Disney, Elsa, Frozen, movies

Toy Story Alien Snack

March 19, 2014 by Amy Hudson

Toy Story 3 is one of the highest rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review website my husband checks religiously before we go out to see a movie.  Kids love the excitement, adventure, and charming characters in this movie.  Even my little girls love  the Woody doll that Grandma keeps at her house, and both have stopped to play with the Buzz Lightyear in the toy aisle.

One of the funniest characters in the Toy Story movie, in my opinion, is the three-eyed alien.  I can just picture him saying, “Ooooh, the Claaaaaaw” like he does in the first movie.  I smile just thinking about it.  In case you’re not familiar with this character, he looks like this:

(image source)

We decided to make this guy for a snack the other day.  We used green grapes, white cheese, blueberries, and raisins.  Take a look.

Toy Story Alien Snack

Ingredients:

Green Grapes (approx. 20)
3 blueberries
white cheese sliced into ovals (could use string cheese, or sliced white cheese like provolone or mozaraella)
3 raisins

Directions:

Slice green grapes in half and arrange on plate in an oval shape as shown.  Slice one of the grapes into tall triangles to look like ears, and slice a small circle out of the cross-section of a grape to be the circle on top of your alien’s head.  Slice blueberries in half, and arrange on top of grapes as shown for a mouth.  Add 3 slices of cheese cut into oval shapes for eyes, and add raisins.  Enjoy!

Check Out the Rest of Our Kids Movie Snacks

Winnie the Pooh

Mickey Mouse

Lion King

Nemo

Shrek

Tangled

Monster’s Inc

Peter Pan

Up

Filed Under: blueberries, cheese, grapes, movies Tagged With: blueberries, cheese, grapes, movies, raisin

Shrek

June 17, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Today, I’m sharing a new snack over at Housing a Forest.  Meet Shrek!  I did not realize this, but Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek 3 were some of the top grossing movie sales of all animated movies throughout the last 15 years.  Shrek is much beloved, so we made him into a healthy snack.

Creative Kid Snacks | Shrek

Click HERE to be taken to our Shrek post at Housing a Forest.

Have a great day!

Filed Under: apple, movies, snacks Tagged With: Apple, cheese, movies, nuts, Shrek

Finding Nemo Snack

May 6, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Finding Nemo is one of Disney’s most beloved movies.  Even my two year old, who is scared of some of the other Disney movies at her age, likes Finding Nemo (although she does hold her sister’s hand during the shark part when we watch it at home).  We love all of the characters, including Dory, Marlin, Squirt, Crush, Mr. Ray, and, of course, Nemo.

Finding Nemo Snack

Finding Nemo: an adorable kid snack featuing Nemo and Marlin.  Visit CreativeKidSnacks.com for full directions as well as other Disney snacks!

Ingredients:

2 baby carrots

1 green grape

1 slice of cheddar cheese

1 T of yogurt (plain, Greek, etc.)

1 raisin or currant

Slice a baby carrot in half lengthwise, and lay each half on the plate.  This will be Marlin and Nemo’s bodies.  Take another baby carrot, slice in half lengthwise, and slice two triangles out of one of the halves.  Place these triangles onto the back of each body for tails.  Next, spoon a tablespoon of yogurt (I love to use plain Greek yogurt here, it’s got the most protein, and it’s actually better that it’s not sweetened, because it’s being served atop a carrot!).  Snip a tiny corner off of the bag, and pipe yogurt onto the fish’s bodies, making two stripes on the body, one on the tail, then an eye and a smile for each fish.  Finish the look by using the remainder of the yogurt to pipe little waves across the top of the plate to look like the fish are under water.

Slice a green grape in half lengthwise.  Next, slice each half into thin sections, and arrange on the plate to look like sea plants.  So simple, yet so adorable!

More Fun and Healthy Disney Snacks

Check out the other Disney snacks we’ve made.  Making your child’s favorite Disney characters using healthy foods is a great way to delight them as they eat, and encourage them to gobble up all of that healthy stuff you’ve used to make them!  Here are some examples:

Winnie the Pooh by CreativeKidSnacks.comWinnie the Pooh

 

Mickey Mouse Breakfast made from oatmeal, yogurt, and raisins by CreativeKidSnacks.com

Mickey Mouse Breakfast

 

Rapunzel from #Disney's "Tangled" - from creativekidsnacks.com

Tangled

 

Lion King Snack by CreativeKidSnacks.com

Lion King Lunch

 

Disney's "Up!" by CreativeKidSnacks.com

“Up!”

 

Mike Wazowski

 

Peter Pan Veggie Tray

 

“Under the Sea” Snack

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Filed Under: Disney, Finding Nemo, movies, snacks Tagged With: carrots, Disney, Finding Nemo, grapes, movies, Snacks, yogurt

Under the Sea

April 8, 2013 by Amy Hudson

“Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid is one of our all-time favorite movie songs.  It just gets stuck in our head every time we listen to it!

We’ve been in a bit of a whirlwind in life lately, so Sunday night we decided to veg and have a family movie night.  Our movie of choice was The Little Mermaid.

Today’s snack is inspired by Sebastain’s famous song “Under the Sea”.

"Under the Sea" kids snack with avocados, oatmeal, strawberries, and cheese.  So fun! | CreativeKidSnacks.com
Create these fun little sea creatures using the following ingredients:

1/2 cup cooked oatmeal

1/4 avocado, sliced

1 strawberry

1/2 slick string cheese

3 grapes

goldfish crackers

1 teaspoon yogurt

Assemble:

Spoon your oatmeal onto the bottom of the plate for the ocean floor.

Next, arrange your avocado slices to look like a beautiful ocean plant.

Slice your strawberry in half so it lies flat on the plate and slice again into 6-8 thin strips to use as the crab’s arms and legs.

Slice 1/2 of your string cheese from the bottom into several small sections.  I think this little guy looks like one of Nemo’s little classmates.  (Now we are cross-referencing Disney movies!).

Slice grapes in half to lay flat onto the plate, and create little tails by slicing remaining portion of grape in half.

Add goldfish crackers.

**Optional: add little eyes to some of the creatures using a food marker

You are now ready to draw your waves at the top of the plate to complete the “Under the Sea” look.  I love to use the following technique:

If you enjoyed today’s snack, you’d also probably like our other Disney inspired snacks as well as our Nature themed plates!

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Filed Under: avocado, cheese, Disney, grapes, movies, music, nature, Uncategorized Tagged With: avocado, cheese, Disney, grapes, movies, music, nature, Oatmeal, Strawberries, super healthy, under the sea

Tangled

March 11, 2013 by Amy Hudson

My kids love Disney’s Tangled.  If you’ve seen our Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Monster’s Inc, “Up” and Peter Pan snacks, you can tell that we are big Disney fans.  Tangled is no exception.

Rapunzel from #Disney's "Tangled" - from creativekidsnacks.com

To create Rapunzel, I sliced 12-14 red grapes in half lengthwise.  I arranged them on the plate to look like her dress.  Making the dress first helps to scale the head, feet, and arms.  Next, cut a slice of white cheese (I used mozzarella) into shape for a neck, feet, arms and head.  I wasn’t ambitious enough to create hands with tiny little fingers using cheese, so I hid her arms behind her hair.  For her lips I used a tiny slice of a grape, two tiny currants for eyes, and a small slice of cheese for her nose.

Next, boil a small handful of thin spaghetti noodles until cooked.  You can make a quick cheese sauce for it if desired, or just use a little olive oil or butter and place it right onto the plate.

Finish the scene with some celery grass and a couple orange tulips made from carrots.

I loved the scene in the movie where Rapunzel feels the grass and the earth for the first time.  This lunch was pattered after that.

Enjoy!

Don’t forget to check out our other Disney snacks: Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Monster’s Inc, “Up” and Peter Pan

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Filed Under: carrots, Disney, grapes, movies, pasta Tagged With: carrots, Celery, cheese, Disney, grapes, movies, Rapunzel

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

Strawberry Shortcake Party Fruit Platter from creativekidsnacks.com

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

Strawberry Shortcake Cups from creativekidsnacks.com

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

Mini Strawberry Shortcakes for Strawberry Shortcake party

Make these mini strawberry shortcake poppers from Snappy Gourmet

Strawberry Themed Party by Wonderfully Made Events

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

Strawberry Lemonade drinks for Strawberry Party by Wonderfully Made Events

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

Adorable Strawberry Shortcakes from Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons

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.

Strawberry Shaped Cake Pops from Wonderfully Made Events

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

Strawberry Party by wonderfullymadeevents.com

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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Filed Under: Birthday Parties, movies, strawberries, Strawberry Shortcake Party, TV shows Tagged With: Birthday Parties, movies, Strawberry Shortcake Party, TV shows

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

Peter Pan Veggie Tray

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!

Apple and Cheese Pirate Ships

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!

Peter Pan Bagel Snacks

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)

(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!

Birthday Party Ideas

Filed Under: Birthday Parties, Disney, movies, Peter Pan, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cheese and Apple Pirate Ships, Disney, movies, Peter Pan Bagels, Peter Pan Birthday Party Food Ideas. Peter Pan Veggie Tray, Pirate Ship Bagels

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.
(source)
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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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!

 

Filed Under: apple, movies, popular snacks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TV shows Tagged With: movies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TV shows

Grinch Party Poppers

December 4, 2012 by Amy Hudson

The Grinch is one of Dr. Suess’ most beloved characters, and at Christmas we love to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”.
Just like we love to make Christmas trees, wreathes, snowmen, Santa, and reindeer for snacks this time of the year, we also love Mr. Grinch.

Today’s snack is a perfect finger food to put out for the kids at a Christmas party.
These would also be perfect for a Christmastime sleepover, featuring popcorn, the Grinch movie, and these scrumptious little poppers.
Healthy, cute, and super fun, you know these little guys will be a hit.
Here’s how to make them.

Step 1: Collect your ingredients and assemble Grinches

 
(Depending on how many Grinch poppers you would like to make, you will need that many of the following):
 
-slice of white string cheese (at least 1/3 inch thick)
-strawberry
-banana slice (at least 1/3 inch thick)
-green grape (with bottom sliced off so it lays flat)
-melted chocolate. (1/2 of a Hershey’s bar, broken into pieces and microwaved until melted, stirring at 20 second intervals will be plenty to make up to 25 poppers)
 
Assemble each Grinch by sliding each piece up a plastic toothpick.  I get mine from the dollar store.  They come in a package of assorted colors with little hearts on the top.  They are the perfect size, and not too sharp for the kids to eat off of.
 

 Step 2: Melt Chocolate

 
 Depending on how many poppers you are making, melt the appropriate amount of chocolate.  I used a simple Hershey bar in this recipe.

1/2 of a Hershey’s bar, broken into pieces and microwaved until melted, stirring at 20 second intervals will be plenty to make up to 25 poppers.

  Step 3: Pipe Grinch faces

Place your melted chocolate into a piping bag with a very small tip attachment; 
or do it the easy way by using a ziploc bag with a tiny snip off of one corner to pipe your faces.
Make 2 eyes with frowning eyebrows above them.  Next, make a wide smile with bumps and a little point at the bottom middle.

Step 4:  Chill, serve, and enjoy!

 
Chill in the refridgerator for at least 15 minutes.
 

 My little girls LOVED these guys.  I made about 10 of them for today’s post, and they had to be cut off after 4 each!  (They still hadn’t had their lunch yet)!
 
TIP: Pipe Grinch faces onto grapes and chill in advance if you want to work ahead and prevent the rest of the ingredients from being out in the air too long.
 
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