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Ten Easy Steps to Great Kid Party Food
By: Patricia Jensen

This simple guide to kid party food turns your kids party into a fun food fest. Learn what turns kids on when it comes to party fare and how to make it quick easy and impressive. Ten Easy Steps to Great Kids Party Food will show you how to think like a kid when it comes to celebratory snacking!

1. Make in Advance Do as much food preparation prior to your party as possible. A variety of kid party food can be made ahead and stored for the big day such as popcorn balls jello jigglers and snack mixes in ziploc bags.

2. Keep it Simple and Fresh Kids really do know whats good for them and will often gravitate to simple healthy foods first. Provide lots of natural choices such as vegetables with cream cheese based dips and salsas fresh fruit fondue or chocolate dipped strawberries.

Bugs on a log (creamcheese filled celery topped with raisins) and fish in the stream (creamcheese filled celery topped with goldfish crackers) are great healthy options too.

3. Try Quick Favorites Triedandtrue kid party foods have stood the test of time and many a childs fickle taste buds. Stick with the originals you can whip up quick such as pigs in a blanket nachos and microwave smores.

4. Color and Create The more colorful it is the better it will taste! At least kids seem to think so! Let kids color and decorate their own cookies or cupcakes using assorted frostings and food colorings sprinkles mini M & Ms chocolate morsels gummies etc.

5. Smooth & Creamy Arm yourself with a crushed ice maker or blender and youre ready to try any of these refreshing combinations: smoothies snow cones ice cream sodas or milk shakes. Another smooth and creamy alternative is to have kids make their own ice cream sundaes or layer fruit and

yogurt for easy parfaits.

6. Crisp & Crunchy Dont be a slave to unhealthy snacks. Crisp and crunchy goes way beyond potato chips! Experiment with whole wheat crackers sweet cereals peanuts (always check for allergies) pretzels and crunchy snack mixes combining raisins coconut and other dried fruits for sweetness.

7. Vary Ingredients Just imagine the many unique sandwiches that can be made just by using different kinds of bread such as English muffins tacos pitas small deli rolls or tortilla wraps. They same goes for the sweets. Try fruit pops pudding cupcakes or mini donuts instead of the traditional cake and ice cream dessert.

8. Proper Presentation Serve drinks in fancy plastic cocktail glasses or colorful cups for toddlers. Serve dip in a hollowedout pumpkin squash or round bread. Serve chips pretzels and munchies in themed containers such as disposable foil pie plates for a cowboy party Chinese noodle boxes for a karate party.

9. Surprise Them! Kids love surprises and food is no exception. Imagine their delight when they bite into a hamburger with taco filling or a slice of cake with jello filling. Try hiding a jellybean surprise inside a cupcake or add a small container of dry ice (with holes punched in it) to your party punch to make a bubbling brew!

10. Stash an Extra Supply Its always wise to keep some extra snacks on hand for surprise guests. Siblings may show up uninvited and tax your food reserves so be prepared!

Patricia B. Jensen is a mother of three and kids party enthusiast. She is the webmaster and owner of KidsPartyParadise.com a complete resource for kids party ideas including invitations cakes decorations games costumes favors and food.

For all the latest party news read her Kids Party Blog.

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