Top 35 Healthy Snacks for Kids

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Are you tired of the same ole snacks and wish you had new inspiration for healthy snacks for kids you can feel good about serving? Check out what my childcare provider friends say are tried and true snacks that kids LOVE! And find out more about how to plan daycare meals here.

Healthy snacks are super important for kids. Growing bodies need nutrients to help them grow. Click here to see how to get kids to eat healthy food.

My little sprouts love snacks and it gets hard to think of something they don’t tire of over time. The same ole crackers get dry and dusty when you serve them week after week. Find a cool way to punch them up a little and they’ll fall in love with them again. 

Can you add a smear of peanut butter or top with a slice of banana or cucumber to bring life into the healthy snacks you’re serving? What about making a snack mix with yummy raisins and dried cherries or whatever fruit you like and pretzels and cheerios? 

There are so many ways you can make healthy snack interesting. Try to change it up a little and see what you can dream up. 

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Protein snacks for kids

1. Cheese cubes with crackers
2. Frozen greek yogurt
3. Pepperoni with cheese and crackers
4. String cheese
5. Cheese cubes with pretzels
6. Frozen yogurt bites (place yogurt in an icing bag and squirt little drops all over a cookie sheet, freeze them for about 30 minutes. Kids love them! Thank you for the tip from Kimberly Olson)
7. PBJ on tortilla
8. Slushies made with Greek yogurt, berries and honey
9. Ants on a log (celery filled with peanut butter and ants on top)
10. Yogurt sprinkled with cereal
11. Pita crackers with hummus
12. Pretzels dipped in yogurt
13. Half bagel with cream cheese and peanut butter
14. Cottage cheese and fruit
15. Carrot sticks with natural peanut butter to dip
16. Apples with peanut butter
17. Waffles and yogurt
18. Veggies and hummus
19. PBJ
20. Cheese and summer sausage
21. Peanut butter on tortilla, wrapped with raisins inside

Click here to see how you can get your kids to eat healthy food easier than you think!

Healthy kids snacks with fruits and vegetables

1. Grapes
2. Slushies made with Greek yogurt, berries and honey
3. Ants on a log
4. Cottage cheese and fruit
5. Carrot sticks with natural peanut butter to dip
6. Apples with peanut butter
7. Veggies and hummus
8. Peanut butter on tortilla, wrapped with raisins inside
9. Green peppers
10. Carrots
11. Celery
12. Cucumbers
13. Cherry tomatoes
14. Sweet rice with fruit
15. Oatmeal with peaches
16. Blueberries
17. Banana cookies
18. Strawberries
19. Bananas
20. Applesauce

Bread snacks for kids

1. Cream cheese roll-ups on a tortilla, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar
2. Sweet rice with fruit
3. Pita crackers with hummus
4. Oatmeal with peaches
5. Toast
6. Cheese cubes with crackers
7. Pepperoni and cheese on crackers
8. Cheese cubes with pretzels
9. PJB on tortilla
10. Yogurt sprinkled with cereal
11. Half bagel with cream cheese and peanut butter
12. Waffles and yogurt
13. PBJ
14. Banana cookies
15. Peanut butter on tortilla, wrapped with raisins inside

For snack ideas that meet the whole grain requirement, click on the highlighted text. 

Healthy snacks for toddlers

Click here for a super fun snack mix to make with your kids. Click here for cat eyes your kids can make themselves. Click here for a fruit kabob recipe for kids.

There are a ton more snack ideas kids can make on the blog, click around when you have time to check them all out! Like these super fun snacks that are still healthy:

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For more kid meal ideas for breakfast, lunch and snack that meet food program requirements, click on the highlighted meal you need. 

Sometimes it just takes a little thinking outside the box to spark your creativity. I hope this list can help you renew your dusty snack ideas and come up with something new and exciting your kids will love! Check out the Top 10 Kid Meals That Aren’t Junk here!