Want to make some holiday treats for your family? Here are a ton of ideas for cute Christmas snacks for kids!
Christmas is a wild time, especially for kids. It can feel magical and busy – but also overwhelming.
One way to slow down and enjoy the season is with little festive treats and foods. Making holiday treats lets you combine creativity with deliciousness. And hey, we’ve all gotta eat, right?!
Today I wanted to explore cute and festive snack ideas perfect for kids during the Christmas season!
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Why Cute Christmas Snacks for Kids
I love making and serving fun themed snacks for different holidays. It’s an easy way to make holiday moments memorable.
Remember, kids are picky and weird. Do not use this as a time to pull foods out of their comfort zone. It will lead to disappointment all around! Stick to slight tweaks on favorites for best results.
I also suggest allowing your kids to participate in the making of the treats. I find them way more likely to eat it if they helped make it!
Grab and Go Snack Items with a Festive Twist
When time is limited, choose pre-made snacks and add a touch of Christmas magic with a simple tweak.
- Christmas-themed Fruit Cups: Pack individual fruit cups with red and green fruits like grapes, strawberries, watermelon chunks, or kiwi slices for a festive touch.
- Santa Hats: Create Santa hats by placing a small round cracker or cookie on a strawberry using a toothpick, resembling Santa’s iconic hat.
- Snowman Cheese Sticks: Use string cheese and attach small googly eyes and a small piece of carrot to create adorable snowman faces.
- Candy Cane Pretzel Sticks: Dip pretzel rods into melted white chocolate or yogurt, then sprinkle with crushed candy canes for a sweet and crunchy treat.
- Reindeer Snack Mix: Combine cereal, pretzels, and chocolate candies in a snack bag or container, adding small edible candy eyes to represent reindeer faces.
- Festive Popcorn: Toss plain popcorn with red and green M&M’s or sprinkles for a colorful and simple snack.
- Christmas Tree Fruit Skewers: Thread green grapes or kiwi slices onto small skewers, and top them with a star-shaped pineapple chunk for a fun and healthy snack.
- Santa Strawberries: Dip whole strawberries in whipped cream or yogurt, then use chocolate chips or mini M&M’s for the eyes and a small dot of whipped cream for the pompom on Santa’s hat.
- Wreath Rice Krispie Treats: Shape Rice Krispie treats into small wreaths and decorate them with red and green sprinkles or candies.
- Holiday Trail Mix: Create a mix of dried cranberries, mini marshmallows, pretzels, and holiday-themed cereal for a delightful snack on the go.
Cute Christmas snacks for kids recipe ideas
Here are some step by step recipes for kid-friendly Christmas snacks.
Cute Christmas snacks for kids
Want to make snack time festive this holiday season? Here are a ton of cute Christmas snack ideas for kids!
These adorable and easy Grinch brownies are a fun way to celebrate your next holiday movie night.
Try these delightful cinnamon polar bear cookies! They are perfectly spiced, with an adorable polar bear face that will make you smile with every bite.
These fun and delicious bite sized desserts are the perfect way to celebrate your holiday spirit.
Super cute and easy to make, these Rudolph cupcakes are sure to make your day more festive! They are easy enough for the kids to hep make them and perfect for Christmas classroom parties as well.
These traditional gingerbread men cookies are a delicious festive Christmas snack. Great to make and decorate with the kids for the holidays.
Reindeer chow is a Christmas Chex mix that combines muddy buddies with M&Ms, peanut butter cups, and pretzels for a perfect snack or dessert that’s loved by kids and adults alike!
These adorable little Rice Krispie reindeer with tiny pretzel antlers and red M&M noses will be the hit of your Christmas party.
These Santa Hats made with brownies, fresh strawberries and vanilla buttercream are sure to be a hit for the holidays.
These Reindeer Cake Pops are the cutest Christmas dessert ever filled with gingerbread cake and cream cheese frosting.
Easy Santa cookies are a festive food craft perfect to do with the kids at Christmas. These no bake treats are so fun to put together and look adorable on holiday dessert tables.
Make a holiday wreath out of rice krispies treats for a chewy fun Christmas snack. Everyone will enjoy decorating it as much as eating it.
This 5 ingredient sweet Christmas snack mix will delight kids and is easy for them to make with you.
Move over generic sugar cookies, and make way for these Biscoff linzer cookies! These minimalist Rudolph cookies are super cute but simple and easy to make, and perfect for Christmas!
This Christmas Fruit Wreath is an adorable Christmas snack for kids! They'll love decorating it and snacking on all of the fresh and vibrant fruit!
Kids of all ages will love making and eating this Christmas Grinch Bark. Perfect to share and make for gift-giving, too.
Very addictive, cute and very easy to make, this is Christmas OREO pops. It’s Christmas-y, it’s got chocolate and it’s made of one of the world’s best cookie – OREOs!
Make these white cake mix cookies shaped like cute bear paws for a cute Christmas snack for kids! They are simple to make with white cake mix, macadamia nuts, homemade coconut frosting, coconut shreds, and milk chocolate chips/candy melts.
Melting snowmen s’mores are a fun festive spin on the campfire classic perfect for the holidays!
Kids adore these stained glass window cookies! They’re so fun and festive for Christmas.
Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake Dip is a brilliant idea and a delicious treat! Just four ingredients needed to make this light and fluffy holiday dessert dip.
These watermelon Christmas trees are such a fun and refreshing snack! Kids will love decorating their own Christmas trees for a festive bite to eat!
What’s your favorite Christmas snack?
Thanks for reading!
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