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    Home » Fun Food For Kids » Fun Food Tutorials

    Simple DIY Snowman Snack for Kids

    Dec 12, 2014 · 11 Comments

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    I'm really getting into the festive mood this week, but like most people at this time of year I'm ridiculously busy and time for creative food is rather limited.  I recently had a fun idea though that involved pretty much zero effort from me and has been a big hit with Small Child - a DIY Snowman snack!

    The first time I made it I used yogurt, which went down very well, but then I had the idea to try the same thing at breakfast time with porridge, and that was a massive hit - Small Child has requested snowman porridge for breakfast every day since!

    The idea is simple - provide a bowl full of a white(ish) food such as yoghurt or porridge, add a small bowl or cup full of edible 'snowman parts' and let your child create to their hearts content!

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    For the snowman snack I've shown here I served up a bowl full of vanilla yogurt.  Natural yogurt would be even better - it has less sugar and is whiter in colour, but that's what I had in the fridge at the time.

    On the side I provided blueberries, orange smarties and matchmakers chocolate sticks (which I snapped in half) for arms. You could replace any of those with whatever foods you think would work - raisins instead of the blueberries have gone down well here too, or you could try grapes or chocolate chips. Chopped dried apricots would work for the nose, or pretzel sticks for arms - just improvise with whatever you have available to you!

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    Small Child likes to make his snowman face, eat it along with the top layer of porridge or yoghurt, then make another one, so be sure to provide plenty of 'parts' for creating with!

    17 month old Small Baby is more interested in eating than creating with his food at the moment, so he wolfed down his blueberries before they ever made it to the bowl - ah well, there's always next year!

    Looking for more fun snowman themed food ideas? Check out our fun snowman snack cups or these 12 fun snowman themed foods for kids!

    Grace

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    1. Karen says

      December 12, 2014 at 1:29 pm

      So clever! John is going to have a lot of fun with this!

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      • Grace says

        January 04, 2015 at 5:01 pm

        Thanks Karen! 🙂

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    2. Koogle says

      December 13, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      Oh, I love your idea of a "Build Your Own Snowman Snack"! Yes, quick and easy is good at this busy time of year. 🙂

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      • Grace says

        January 04, 2015 at 5:02 pm

        Thank you! Yes, quick and easy is definitely the way to go in the run up to Christmas!

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    3. Kate Reed says

      November 22, 2015 at 4:14 pm

      Absolutely love this - how easy! Like your Small Child Darcey is 17 months next week so I imagine this will be all about the 'dip dip' rather than creating a snowman but I'm sure I could make myself a DIY Snowman snack too... Can't I?!

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      • Grace says

        November 23, 2015 at 12:06 am

        Thank you! Oh you can definitely get away with making one for you, I may have made one for myself too! 🙂

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    4. Paula Bosshart says

      December 16, 2015 at 4:31 pm

      I love your Build a Snowman snack idea! I am using it as a Take Home activity for a family program at our library in the USA! Great website!

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      • Grace says

        December 16, 2015 at 10:29 pm

        Oh that is fantastic to hear, thank you for commenting to let me know, that's made my day!

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