If you are trying to get your kids into the Christmas spirit, start with their food! Here are a ton of Santa themed snacks to make for kids!
I’m so excited for my kids’ Christmas this year. They are 1 and 3 years old and for the first time I feel like they are both cognizant and REALLY EXCITED for Christmas.
One thing that I am doing to foster that sense of excitement is to turn December into a whole month of fun holiday activities.
An easy way to do that is my festiv-izing their snacks! There are tons of Christmas snacks to make the season feel a little more special.
Healthy Christmas Treat ideas
Looking for healthy Christmas snack ideas for kids? Instead of basing snacks around cookies and candies, try using:
- Babybel cheese (wrap to look like santa)
- Fruit (kebabs or cups)
- Bananas
- Pancakes (fun shapes with cookie cutters)
- Fruit cups (decorate to look like santa, reindeer, snowman, etc)
- Cheese and crackers (cookie cutter cheese into Christmas shapes)

Kids Christmas party food
There’s LOTS of cute Christmas party food that kids will love!
Fun & Easy Santa Snacks for Kids
Looking for the perfect Christmas snacks to make for kids?! Here are a ton of SANTA themed Christmas snack ideas!
These no-bake 3 Ingredient Strawberry Santa Claus Hats are super quick and easy to throw together for brunch, Christmas morning, or a class party!
What kid doesn't go wild for rice crispy treats?! Here are santa ones!
This is perfect for a party - how to decorate cupcakes to look like santa hats!
Split a strawberry in half and fill with whipped cream to make these lil santas!
Love Disney? You'll be into these Mickey Mouse Santa cookies!
I love this creative tutorial for how to turn sugar cones into santa hats! So smart!!
I love a good Christmas cocktail! Here's a virgin kiddie option!
These roly poly Santa cookies are SO ADORABLE I mean how can you not want to scoop one of these up and eat it!
I love this idea because she has a recipe for making the mini cheesecakes, but you could also buy mini ones at the grocery store and top them for a semi-homemade treat!
I love dipping pretzels but have never done square ones like this. So cute!
Here's a healthy Christmas snack idea - fruit kebabs that look like the grinch in his Santa attire!
This is a cool idea for turning cones into santa hats. Seems like it's more for display or decorating a cake than eating alone, but still cute!
Kids will love help using mini marshmallows to decorate these santa cupcakes!
Make a giant santa hat as a cupcake topper! Very dramatic!
Christmas breakfast alert - how awesome are these santa pancakes?!
Handprint cookies are a really cool idea! Here are some decorated like Santas!
This is the fanciest - and ho ho ho-iest - toast I've ever seen!
Santa Star Cookies - Red Ted Art - Make crafting with kids easy & fun
I love this idea for decorating star cut out cookies to look like santa!!
Use strawberries to turn any cupcake into a lil santa hat!!
I love that this recipe uses pre-packaged ding-dongs. Very doable!
Another Healthy Christmas snack idea! Clementines decorated to look like santas!
How perfect does the strawberry look on the mini white donut?! *chefs kiss*
What’s your favorite Christmas themed snack to make?!