Preschool Child Snack Ideas

You do not need to know how to cook or bake to be able to come up with some creative snacks for preschool children. It is not a hard thing in the least bit. Children at this age are not real picky especially when you tell them that it is snack time. That word alone is music to their tiny ears. You will want to keep in mind when you are coming up with ideas that there are normally at least 10 to 15 children in a classroom. This snack should be ready to go. No one wants to watch all those kids and then try and cut up a snack at the same time. this just does not seem like a very safe idea at all.

Snack Ideas For Preschoolers

1. Ants on a log. This is when you take celery sticks and cut them in half. Take a spoon and you can use peanut butter, cottage cheese or cream cheese. Smear it into the groove in the celery. Finally take some raisins or chocolate chips and stick them to the middle right on top of whichever filling you choose. This is how you create the appearance of ants on a log.
2. Worms in dirt. You take chocolate pudding and crush up Oreo cookies in it. Then take gummy worms and gummy bugs and stick it all through out the pudding and Oreo mix.
3. Trail mix. Get a few different bowls with food in them like raisins, nuts, pretzels, small crackers, Chex cereal, cheerios and let the children make their own mixtures.
4. Go fish .Get pretzel rods, peanut butter and gold fish in a bowl. Place some peanut butter on the end of the pretzel rod and try to get a gold fish to stick on it. Not only is this nutritious snack it is fun as well.
   
5. Veggie or fruit platter with dip.
6. Let them make their own ice cube Popsicle. Get an ice cube tray and pour juice into it then let the children place their sticks in them. Once it freezes let them have a blast.
7. Ice cream sundaes. Give each child one scoop of ice cream in a bowl and place a bunch of small bowls with different toppings in them and let the kids put it on their ice cream. Try to go with things like small pieces of cut up fruit, nuts, dried fruits, sugar free candies.


8. Peanut butter and banana crackers.

Some of these snacks may be a little messy but if you prepare things before they come in then this should be a bit easier to do and they will have such a blast eating these snacks. This also helps them become more independent and feel like a big kid for making their own snack. Not all snacks have to be 100% healthy but only in moderation. This is why it is called a snack or treat. They do not get it all the time. I hope some of these ideas have helped you. Happy snack time!