Creative Valentine’s Day Snacks for Kids

February 13, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Valentine’s Day can be such a fun day for the kids. Why not make it even more special by showing your love to them with a creative snack or meal? Following is some of my favorite Valentine’s Day food that you can serve all day.

Breakfast

Heart Warming Oatmeal

This is a fun and tasty way to start off the day. Ever since I made this the first time, it has become a staple in our house! Click here to see how we made it.

Valentine’s Day Pancakes

If your child is a pancake lover, then give them a memorable pancake breakfast using heart shaped cookie cutters to make everyone in your family. See how this breakfast was made here.

Lunch

The Giving Tree

Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to talk about real love and the ways people show it to one another. Read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and make this adorable lunch to go with it. See how we made it along with some questions to get your kids talking about love here.

I Love You to the Moon and Back

Here is another book-inspired lunch. Check out our post about the message of the story and how to make the snack that goes with it here.

Snacks

I Love You

Although I’m categorizing it as a snack, this dish is filling enough to be a lunch for some kids. With refreshing strawberries, grapes, celery, and calcium rich cheese and yogurt, this dish says I love you in more than one way. See how to make it here.

Valentine’s Day Apples

A super fun snack the kids will go nuts over is this simple apple snack. Use a cookie cutter to slice apples into heart shapes, add some peanut butter and some crunchy cereal – and the kids won’t be able to contain their love for you! See all the details about this snack here.

We hope you have a great Valentine’s Day!

Valentines Day Pancakes

February 3, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Valentines Day is almost here! How about a sweet little breakfast for your Valentine? Make these easy Valentines Day Pancakes!

To create this little plate, simply prepare two medium or one large pancake on your skillet. Next, take your heart shaped cookie cutter and cut out as many little hearts as desired.

Next, give the hearts a little personality, which is what we do on Creative Kid Snacks! I used chocolate chips for their eyes, and a small slice of a strawberry for their mouths. How sweet!

As a finishing touch, I added little whipped cream polka dots around the plate for a little something special for my little Valentines.

Enjoy! (Sharing HERE)

Check out our other Valentines Day Food.

Guess How Much I Love You? Snack

Valentines Day Apples

I love you yogurt breakfast

Snowflake Breakfast

January 28, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Celebrate winter, snow, a snow day off school, or just make breakfast fun with snowflake pancakes!

Snowflake pancakes are so easy to create.

Prepare your pancakes, and place one onto the center of a plate.

Next, use an aerosol whipped cream container to “draw” a simple snowflake design as shown above. Make a hexagon around the border of the pancake, and add a three pointed branch coming out of each of the six points.

For a finishing, snowy touch, sprinkle some powdered sugar in the middle.

Serve snowflake pancakes alongside some fresh raspberries or strawberries and a small serving of scrambled eggs for a delightful snow day breakfast the kids will love!

What to do with the rest of the day?

Take a look at some awesome snow day activities to do with your child after breakfast is over! These links are from some of my favorite parenting and education blogs!