Treat your kids to festive but healthy Christmas snacks to make with kidsthis year! Kids won’t miss the junk with these healthy holiday snacks. Try using fresh fruit and vegetables to create red and green treats kids or subbing out sugar for cleaner options!
Although we practice giving our kids more healthy options, that rule can easily fly out of the window this time of year.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t focus on still offering kiddos healthy options.
All it takes is some quick thinking, fun placement, and a tiny bit of effort. You’ll have healthy Christmas snacks kids will gobble up as if there wasn’t a huge plate of cookies waiting for them in the next room.
How to make easy healthy Christmas snacks with kids
The best way to add some healthy additions to your Christmas snacks is to rely on fruits and vegetables that are the color of the season! \These fruits and veggies can easily be swapped based on what you have on hand or what your family prefers.
Red fruits and vegetables for Christmas treats
One of the most iconic colors to these themed items is red! I’ve got the scoop on how to use nature to add some festive red color to your healthy holiday snacks.
- Apples
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Pomegranate
- Watermelon
- Bell pepper
- Tomato
- Beets
- Radish
Green fruits and vegetables for holiday snacks
Green is popular and easy to find in whole foods! Bonus: transforming it into something super fun can turn hated foods into a festive snacks kids will love.
- Celery
- Spinach (or other leafy greens like kale)
- Bell pepper
- Cucumber
- Avocado
- Honeydew
- Apples
- Kiwi
Adding white to your healthy Christmas snacks
Adding white to your healthy holiday snacks can add a bit more festive fun- think Santa’s fluffy white beard, a snowman, or the white in a candy cane. Here are my favorite healthy ways to add white to healthy treats.
- Banana
- Yogurt
- Cream cheese
- Tortilla
Easy, Healthy Christmas Snacks to Make with Kids
Christmas Tree-sadillas
Treesadillas take a kid staple – quesadillas! – and turn them into a simple snack or lunch. I used homemade guac, but store-bought would work as well.
Watermelon Christmas Trees
These are too cute and crazy simple – just take a triangle of watermelon and cut a “trunk” from the rind.
Healthy No-Bake Gingerbread Cookie Dough Bites
These look amazing! Packed with gingerbread flavor, these healthy one bite, no-bake Christmas treats will totally be a hit.
Easy Snowman Smoothie
Not only are these cute, but they don’t require anything fancy – literally just coloring in a clear cup!
Healthy Strawberry Santas
Bring these to a school party or serve alongside pancakes for a Santa breakfast – your kids will talk about it for months!
Grinch Smoothie
Turn a boring green smoothie into a drink to remember – all you’ll need is a slice of a strawberry!
Santa Crackers
My boys can eat ricotta by the spoonful, and I’m pretty sure they could forgive the celery ‘staches.
Vegetable Christmas Tree
So stinking cute and so simple! I definitely will be tossing these into the boy’s lunchboxes this season!
More Healthy Christmas Snacks..
Grinch Fruit Kabobs
How kid friendly can you get, right? Strawberry, grape, banana – this would be a fun side to a healthy breakfast for kids!
String Cheese Snowman
I do this all the time but I love that this version uses a ribbon to make the scarf! If you’re lazy like me (oops) just use permanent marker for it all.
Christmas Vegetable Cups
My oldest can’t stand raw veggies, but he does love a good dip. I love that these pack the dip in the bottom to make it easier.
Kiwi Tree Fruit Plate
My boys adore kiwi – this is such a simple fruit plate to serve as a healthy Christmas snack, but that won’t fill your kids up too much before dinner.
Cheese Reindeer
This would be a fun addition to a lunchbox, but it would also be fun to send as a party snack for school.
Frozen Banana Penguins
If you have banana lovers in your house, this healthy holiday dessert is too fun! It’s definitely decadent enough to be a dessert with the chocolate, but the banana and apricot help!
Strawberry Banana Candy Cane
Sometimes the most simple things are the most effective. That’s definitely the case with this fruit candy cane! Slices of strawberry and banana alternating make this fun and healthy Christmas snack.
Reindeer Celery Sticks
I’m a huge fan of Fork and Beans and these reindeer celery sticks are exactly why – so simple and yet so stinking cute!
Snowman Mashed Potatoes
These are so cute, your kids won’t even care that there is vegetable adorning the mashed potato goodness!
Okay, so tell me – which of these easy Christmas snacks would your family love best? Let me know in the comments!
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