Our school has a healthy food rule......no sweet treats AT ALL!!! I am responsible for the snacks for their Christmas Party........what can I make that has a Christmas type theme? The only thing I can think of is red and green grapes.
Edit: Actually, they don't bend the rules at all.......one year a mother brought in cupcakes made with applesauce and other healthier ingredients and no frosting and they wouldn't let her serve them.
Thanks for all the great responses! I went with Red/Green Theme.......both colors of apples, grapes and goldfish crackers. The kids actually loved them and it was so simple to do. I have already begun to think of some more creative things to create for Valentine's Day using some of these ideas. Thanks again.
We did wreaths out of mini bagles with cream cheese and red and green peppers and sandwiches cut out with christmas cookie cutters.
Firstly, I wonder if they'd bend the rules a bit for a party. Also, I think presentation is everything and the food itself doesn't have to look Christmas-y. Anyhoo, here's some ideas:
-tiny clemintine oranges
-popcorn is always a hit with kids
-cinnamon dusted apple slices with a little lemon and honey
-Beautiful veggie tray, cracker, cheese and dip try (could use dishes or other presentation to make it seasonal - ie shape of christmas tree)
-pitzel ( beautiful snowflake plain waffle like sort of non-cookie things - maybe someone at your school has an iron to make these)
Treats that my sons school loves is a meat & cheese tray. I made those for several parties and they were a hit. You could do that and a fruit pizza with Kiwi, strawberry, ect. If you wanted to get really creative, you could shape the pizza into a Christmas tree. I am not very creative so I would shape it as a ball & tell the kids it looks like an ornament. Good luck!
peanut butter or balogna sandwiches cut out with christmas cookie cutters.
If you have lots of time to put them together, lol, you could put little round slices of ham on crackers, topped with black olive slices for eyes and a red sliver of red bell pepper for a nose... then have 2 more that are just ham with a piece of green olive for buttons. Line them up on a plate and it's a not white snowman.
Each child gets 3 cracker/ham combos on a plate = one whole snowman.
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Tiny rice circles with food colored cream cheese?
what about cheese cubes with pretzles as antlers and a red grape for a nose? take two pretzel sticks and put on top of the cheese cube then lay the cube down and with a tooth pick stick a red grape onto the cheese cube for the nose to make it look like a reindeer. Depending on the age of the children in the class they could make their own. If pretzles are not allowed then just cheese cubes and a fruit.
I think that they should bend a little for parties, but again that is just me.
You could slice apples and arrange them so the skin shows--use Granny Smith and something red.
I don't think it has to be holiday-themed to be festive, so you could always use a cheese and cracker tray (one of my favorite things to find anywhere), or multi-colored tortilla ships and salsa (you might find red and greens for the chips if you look around).
Green and red pepper slices (who doesn't like peppers??).
Again, not really holiday-themed, but one of my favorite appetizers as a kid were pickles wrapped in turkey with cream cheese. You spread the cream cheese on slices of deli turkey, then wrap dill pickles and cut them into bite-size pieces and could hold them with a festive toothpick. (Now I just eat the pickles with the cream cheese.)
Popcorn is always festive to me if the kids are old enough.
If you think you can pull it off (it has candy) you could make a bowl of applesauce with some redhot candies to turn it red and give it some bite. If you can't pull that off, you could just some cinnamon and food coloring.
Pomegranates are my favorite fruit and always make me think of Christmas. If you open them ahead of time you could accent something with them or try mixing themm in with applesauce.
What about sandwich sized bags of popcorn. Tie with colored ribbons.
I did that one year and the kids and teachers loved it. Don't do balls because that requires sweeteners.
You could make fruit cups with fresh fruit. They also have holiday shaped pretzels. If you can't use peanut butter, like at our school. For the small sandwiches cut in holiday shapes, use jam. Good Luck!
That's awesome! I always send healthy snacks, but I know other parents don't :(
red and green finger jello?
green lettuce with something red rolled up inside?
celery with cream cheese dyed red?
grape tomatoes and any green vegetable?
red and green apples?
ham pinwheels - mix cream cheese and sour cream with red food coloring, spread it on ham, place a pickle spear at one end and roll it up.
make some sort of sandwich - peanut butter, soy nut butter, sunflower seed butter, and jelly - and then use cookie cutters to cut them out in holiday shapes
Really, you can use cookie cutters with all sorts of things - cheese, bread, tortillas, etc...the snack doesn't have to be red and green.
