Healthy Christmas Snack – Christmas Tree Treats for Kids!
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Healthy Christmas Snack
If you’re looking for a healthy snack to keep the kiddos occupied before the main meal on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, this is a fun one to have at their place setting to eat until dinner is ready! I co-hosted a Christmas Kindergarten party with another mom last Friday & she made these cute little healthy Christmas trees for all the kids in class. I then thought it was the perfect treat so I had these at the place settings for the kids table at our family Christmas gathering I hosted last weekend. Kids are always hungry, so this was a nice way to tide them over until we were ready to eat & most likely you will have the ingredients on hand or can pick up them easily!
Healthy Christmas Tree Treats for Kids
Ingredients:
- Green Apples
- Pretzel sticks
- Cheddar Cheese
- Craisins or Small Grape Tomatoes (add craisins or even small tomatoes to the branches for red ornament balls – we didn’t have these but I think they would make a nice, healthy addition)
Directions:
1. Cut apple into slices with skin on (or buy the pre-packaged apple slices if you’re really short on time)
2. Place apple slices in the center with sides touching & skins on the bottom, fanning out to form the tree branches. We just did 6 total apple slices – 3 on each side. But you could make the tree as big as you want.
3. At the bottom of the apple slices, we then added several pretzel sticks for the Christmas tree trunk
4. Use a star cookie cutter to cut out the star shape out of cheddar cheese. (You’ll want to make sure you make this thick enough so it doesn’t fall apart). You could also use a snowflake cutter if you don’t have a star (like the example at the top of the page). Or just cut two triangles out of cheese & layer them to form a star.
5. You could top this off with craisins (dried cranberries) or small, red grape tomatoes for little ornaments on the edges of the “tree” branches
Here’s my girl enjoying her Christmas Tree Treat at her kindergarten party! {Check out the cute juice box, too – a mom just wrapped them up with ribbons & bows to look like a present – another fun idea for Christmas meal!}
Such a simple and healthy treat, but the kids at both parties loved these Christmas Tree Healthy Treats! Let them snack without ruining their lunch or dinner & enjoying a fun, little Christmas-themed treat!
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