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Daniel Tiger Birthday Party Ideas {Healthy Foods}

January 10, 2014 by Amy Hudson

Lots of kids love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood on PBS and Sprout. The show teaches kids valuable life lessons using simple songs repeated throughout each episode by the characters as they learn a lesson about life. Many of my friends have children who watch the show, and I know of several people planning a Daniel Tiger themed birthday party for their child’s next celebration.

Healthy Ideas for a Daniel Tiger Birthday Party

Daniel Tiger Clementines

Kids love to eat clementine oranges. Make these cute little Daniel Tiger oranges by using a black food marker to draw Daniel Tiger’s face onto each orange. Start with the eyes, making little arches, then add the eyeballs, nose, whiskers, and mouth. Draw ears where they are still visible when looking at the orange straight on, and, lastly, add some tiger stripes. Daniel has three on his forehead and two on his cheeks. Here’s a closer look:

Clementies are packed with Vitamin C, and are a great healthy item to put out at a Daniel Tiger Birthday Party.

Katerina KittyKat Bagels

Use mini bagels for kids, or even English muffins as they are a great size and nicely thin – to make Katerina Kittykats. Spread cream cheese over each bagel, then take a good knife and slice out two ears and the top of her head from the top of the bagel. Next, slice some green grapes into thin sections, and slice the bottom section off of the oval you will have after slicing. Lay that onto the bagel for the base of Katerina’s eyes. Next, add small raisins or dried blueberries to look like Katerina’s eyes. For her nose and mouth, Add thinly sliced bits of a red apple. Slice a thin section off of a red apple, then cut a triangle and two thin strips and lay onto bagel to look like Katerina’s nose and mouth.

Prince Wednesday’s Castle

I have shared this castle in the past on this blog as a great idea to make for a Princess themed birthday party, but it would also be great to serve with a little sign in front of the tray that says “Prince Wednesday’s Castle”. 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.

Prince Wednesday’s Crown

These little guys are also from my Princess Birthday Party post, but here is how to make them.

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.

More Awesome Daniel Tiger Party Ideas

Easy and pretty Daniel Tiger Pretzel Rods from PBS Parents

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Bingo Cards from TrulyBillEve on Etsy

I like the idea of serving the food atop a table decorated like the trolley like this mini version from Life at Third Creek Cottage. You could decorate a large table to look like a trolley by using a large white box or poster boards and drawing the trolley wheels and red dividing columns.

Daniel Tiger Masks from PBS Parents

If you enjoyed this post, you might like to check out our other TV Show inspired food, along with our other Birthday Party themed food ideas.

Hello Kitty Breakfast

November 7, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Hello Kitty has become so popular with little girls lately, and mine are no exception. We have Hello Kitty pajamas, Hello Kitty purses, Hello Kitty shoes, and even Hello Kitty backpacks. We also love to celebrate Hello Kitty by making cute snacks. In the past we’ve made Hello Kitty Sandwich and a Hello Kitty Bagel. Make sure to check them out!

Today, we would like to show you our Hello Kitty Breakfast – Hello Kitty Oatmeal

Hello Kitty Breakfast

Ingredients:

1/2 – 3/4 cup cooked oatmeal – (we use instant)

2 fresh strawberries

2 slices banana

2 chocolate chips

Directions:

Arrange your prepared oatmeal on a plate in an oval shape. Next, slice two ears from a round banana slice by creating a tip like a triangle on each one. Lay the ears atop the oatmeal at the top corners of the oval you have made. Next, find a small banana slice and place 3/4 of the way down the oval of oatmeal to be Hello Kitty’s nose. To make her bow, slice a strawberry in half, then place the tips of the two triangles together to look like a bow. Slice the bottom tip off of your other strawberry and place in the center of the bow to look like the knot. Use the remaining strawberry to slice thin whiskers for Hello Kitty. Place along the sides of the face. Finally, add two little eyes using chocolate chips.

This breakfast is sure to please any Hello Kitty Fan!

Health Benefits for Kids

Oatmeal is a great choice for breakfast for the kids. It is filling, full of fiber, and even protein. Read this article to learn more about all of the health benefits of oatmeal. Strawberries add a punch of vitamin C and antioxidants, and bananas are a rich source of potassium.

Other Hello Kitty Food

Hello Kitty Bagel Lunch

Hello Kitty Sandwich

(Sharing HERE)

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Oscar the Grouch

April 11, 2013 by Amy Hudson

We are all about teaching kids to LOVE eating healthy foods here at Creative Kid Snacks, and one way we do that is by presenting them in fun ways. I can’t tell you how many new foods my daughters have tried (and eaten all up), because it was included in one of their “creative lunches”. These are foods that they would never choose to eat on their own.

Oscar the Grouch is the perfect character to turn into a super healthy lunch for the kids. He’s green, brown, and white, and lots of nutrient packed foods can be used here to make him.

I’d like to show you the version we made the other day, and then offer other suggestions for you to try.

Create an Oscar the Grouch snack to serve the kids super healthy foods like peas, meat, olives, or broccoli, beans, or other greens you want them to eat! | CreativeKidSnacks.com

We used the following ingredients for the Oscar shown here:

peas – canned or frozen (thawed, heated)

cheese – any white cheese cut into circles for Oscar’s eyes

black olives – approximately 6 sliced

pulled pork – leftover from sandwiches served the night before

Arrange all ingredients on a small plate as shown to make Oscar’s face. Super simple!

Variations:

Perhaps you are looking for a way to serve some of the following foods to your kids. Try these in an Oscar!

Face:

Broccoli

String beans

Edamame

Softened avocado

Green grapes

Green apple slices

Eyebrows:

Rotisserie Chicken

Grilled Chicken breast sliced

Ground Beef

Pulled Beef

Ham

Mouth/Eyeballs:

Raisins

Blueberries

Eyes – Whites:

Hard boiled egg sliced

Cottage Cheese

Yogurt

Hopefully you can make your own super healthy Oscar soon! Next time I try this, I’m going to use this:

(Sharing HERE)

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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!

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.

(Sharing HERE)

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Hello Kitty Lunch

February 20, 2013 by Amy Hudson

Hello Kitty is a beloved character that I used to watch when I was a young girl, and who has now made a comeback. My four year old daughter carries a bright pink Hello Kitty backpack to school with her every day.

With Hello Kitty‘s recent surge of popularity, we had a request by a Facebook friend to share some Hello Kitty inspired food.

Hello Kitty Lunch

Ingredients: 1 half bagel, 2 T whipped cream cheese, 2 blueberries, 1 slice banana, 6 thin slices apple, 1 strawberry, and 1 raspberry.

To create this easy and cute Hello Kitty, I used a half bagel spread with a thin layer of whipped cream cheese. I cut a small section from the top to create her ears. Next I added two blueberry eyes, a small banana nose, and thinly sliced apple whiskers. For her bow, I sliced one strawberry in half for the two sides of the bow, and used a raspberry for the center.

That’s it. A delicious and fun lunch with a great variety of wonderful fruit.

Here is another Hello Kitty Lunch we’ve created in the past.

See the blog post about this Hello Kitty here.

And coming up soon I have a Hello Kitty Breakfast! WooHoo!

(Sharing HERE)

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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!

(sharing HERE)

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!

Winnie the Pooh

September 24, 2012 by Amy Hudson

We are in love with Costco’s strawberries. We’ve bought them all summer and they are consistently delicious.

This week I had some strawberries in the house as well as some organic colby jack cheese, also from Costco. I decided a Winnie the Pooh snack was in order.

Cut cheese to shape using a sharp knife. I think I used two slices to make this snack, giving the leftover cheese to my two year old. Next, create a shirt with strawberries sliced in half to lay flat on the plate and fit together to look like a shirt.

Add Pooh’s nose and eyes with some raisins, and draw his mouth and “Hunny” pot using the technique shown below. Serve the rest of the yogurt on the side, and you have a fun and healthy snack!

(Linked HERE)

Grover

September 10, 2012 by Amy Hudson

Blueberries are known to be a superfood, containing lots of antioxidants, fiber, and other vitamins that are so beneficial for our kids.

Why not have a great big serving by creating Grover the monster for our snack?

This Grover was made on a 6 inch kids plate. Make the eyes by slicing the sides (lengthwise) off of a hardboiled egg. Cut a blueberry in half to lay it flat over each eye.

Next, create Grover’s mouth using raspberries running from one end of the plate to the other. Raspberries are also full of great vitamins like C, E, and A as well as magnesium and fiber, to name a few.

Add a sliced strawberry in the center of the plate for the nose, and fill the rest of Grover’s face in with blueberries.

Blueberries are not number one on my daughter’s list of favorite fruits, but she ate every single one in this snack! It’s truly a snack to feel great about giving to your little one!

Variations:

Use yogurt for the whites of Grover’s eyes

(Linked HERE)

Mickey Mouse

August 16, 2012 by Amy Hudson

Mickey Mouse is one of Disney’s most beloved characters of all time. We love Disney in our house. We’ve made Winnie the Pooh, Mike Wazowski, the house from the film “Up”, and today we are making Mickey Mouse!

This Mickey was the perfect breakfast. Oatmeal, raisins, and yogurt are the perfect combination!

(By the way, is photo 1 or photo 2 better?)

Make a semi-circular shape on the plate with your oatmeal. Next, add Mickey’s ears with the raisins. Use the plastic bag method shown below to easily draw two oval eyes and the mouth.

Draw the mouth, then add a small piece of watermelon to look like his tongue.

That’s it!

Now, I have one daughter who likes raisins, and one who doesn’t. Grace, the oldest, wanted a Mickey but did not want raisins. For her, a threw some raisins into some white bowls for the presentation, then left her with just the face to eat.

(sharing HERE)

Hello Kitty

August 15, 2012 by Amy Hudson

Hello Kitty is a simple yet pretty lunch to make. I chose to make her with a peanut butter sandwich, cut into an oval with two pointy ears, a strawberry bow, black bean eyes, and a banana nose. For her whiskers, I thinly sliced some apples and placed them into little grooves I had cut into the sandwich. The grooves really help the apples to stay in place. My little girl really enjoyed this one, I hope your little one does too!

Variations:

Bow: watermelon, raspberries

Eyes: raisins, blueberries

Nose: a slice of white string cheese, a dab of yogurt

(linked HERE)

Daniel Tiger Birthday Party Ideas {Healthy Foods}

Healthy Ideas for a Daniel Tiger Birthday Party

Daniel Tiger Clementines

Katerina KittyKat Bagels

Prince Wednesday’s Castle

Prince Wednesday’s Crown

More Awesome Daniel Tiger Party Ideas

Hello Kitty Breakfast

Hello Kitty Breakfast

Ingredients:

Directions:

Health Benefits for Kids

Other Hello Kitty Food

Oscar the Grouch

We used the following ingredients for the Oscar shown here:

Variations:

Face:

Eyebrows:

Mouth/Eyeballs:

Eyes – Whites:

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

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Fruit Platter

Individual Strawberry Shortcake Cups

More Strawberry Shortcake Ideas

Hello Kitty Lunch

Hello Kitty Lunch

Ingredients: 1 half bagel, 2 T whipped cream cheese, 2 blueberries, 1 slice banana, 6 thin slices apple, 1 strawberry, and 1 raspberry.

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.

Winnie the Pooh

Grover

Mickey Mouse

Hello Kitty

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