• Skip to content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Shop ModernMom
  • Become An Insider

ModernMom

The premiere destination for moms

  • Parenting
    • Pregnancy
    • Baby
    • Kids
    • Tweens and Teens
    • ModernMom Monday Videos
  • Cooking
  • Living Healthy
    • Breast Cancer
    • Health & Fitness
    • Body after Baby
    • Beauty
    • Relationships
    • Love
  • Lifestyle
    • Crafts
    • At Home
    • Education
    • Travel
    • Pets
    • Decorate
    • Money
    • Brooke Burke
  • Celebrate
    • Holidays
      • Easter
      • Valentine’s Day
      • New Year’s
      • Christmas
      • Hanukah
      • Halloween
      • Thanksgiving
    • Birthdays
    • Parties
  • Must Have
  • Contests
  • Entertainment

Creative Toddler Snacks

October 11, 2009 by ModernMom Staff Leave a Comment

Make creative toddler snacks that keep his imagination soaring and his body healthy. Healthy snacks can be assembled at home, with ingredients you already have on hand. Combine foods in interesting ways and build snacks into familiar shapes or activities, including a picnic. Toddlers can eat 1,000 to 1,400 calories per day, according to the Nemours Foundation. Making the snacks both healthy and playful will help toddlers get the nutrition they need, and have fun while eating them.

Caterpillar Roll-Ups With Meat

Cut a length of cheese from a block. Roll the cheese in a thin slice of deli meat, preferably turkey, chicken breast or low-sodium ham. Place bite-sized pieces of mixed field greens on the plate. Add a pretzel stick. Cut the rolled-up meat and cheese into bite-sized pieces and reassemble the caterpillar on the plate. Break off tiny pieces of pretzel to make the eyes and add two small antennas to the head.

Savory Palm Trees

Cut up homemade meatballs, hot dogs or toddler meat sticks to use as the base of the tree. Stick long pretzel rods or plain bread sticks into the meat. Poke holes in slices of whole wheat pita bread using a straw. Use a knife to poke holes in fresh pea pods. Layer the slices of bread with the pea pods to make the palm tree fronds.

Ice Cube Tray Picnic

Photo by danzo08/Sxc.hu

Use a dry ice cube tray to make a Bento box style snack tray. Cut up fresh fruits including apples, bananas or strawberries and fill every other space. Add puffed rice or small crackers to a couple of spaces. Put cubes of cheese in a couple more. Save two spaces for the dip, made of one part unsweetened applesauce, one part plain yogurt and a sprinkling of cinnamon.

Veggie Forest

Poke holes in a paper plate and turn it upside down. Smear hummus or sesame butter on the plate, going around the holes. Plant trees, including fresh string beans and blanched asparagus, by poking the vegetables through the holes. Add celery and carrot sticks to the forest floor to look like fallen tree logs. Include fresh sprouts or lettuce to make small bushes. Make a path through the forest with a row of whole wheat crackers.

Comments

comments

Filed Under: Food

About ModernMom Staff

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

Search

Tell a friend

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
ModernMom Boutique

ModernMom TV

Featured

20 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Had Kids

After seeing and holding the newest member of our family … [Read More...] about 20 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Had Kids

Must Have

STEM-related Toys to Include in Your Child’s Easter Basket This Year 

April has arrived which means it’s time to pull out the food … [Read More...] about STEM-related Toys to Include in Your Child’s Easter Basket This Year 

Did you know?

stop a new piercing from itching

How to Stop a New Piercing From Itching

How to Ask a Guy You Are Seeing Where You Stand

How to Ask a Guy You Are Seeing Where You Stand

Emotional Development of Adolescents

Signs of Water Breaking in Pregnancy

Signs of Water Breaking in Pregnancy

Do You Have to Refrigerate Glazed Donuts?

Do You Have to Refrigerate Glazed Donuts?

Cravings & the Sex of the Baby

Cravings & the Sex of the Baby

Repair Scratches in Glass Tabletops

How to Repair Scratches in Glass Tabletops

Footer

  • About Us
  • Contact ModernMom
  • Advertise With Us
  • Press
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contributors

Copyright © 2022 Modern Mom. All Rights Reserved.

Reproduction of any portion of this website only at the express permission of Mom, Inc.

The information provided on ModernMom is for educational use only. It should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.