Christmas themed snacks for kindy

[LuluHB]

DD2 has to take something for the end of year party next week, and the girls have to take something savoury and healthy.

Short of making cheese sandwiches and using Christmas cookie cutters to cut them into shapes, I can't think of a thing - its made far more difficult by the fact that I have the fussies little minx on the planet and it would be nice that my daughter actually wants to eat something that she takes

Any ideas for something that looks cute and Christmas like?

[Miss_Dee]

I saw on pinterest santa strawberries. They look super cute. Just Google Santa strawberries and the images should come up. I'm planning on taking these to a Christmas party in the weekend.

[Mother Goose]

Scones in Christmas shapes? (Use cookie cutters instead of scone cutter)

Mini pizza's with Santa face, rudolf face, elf face, tree, star etc as a shape made from the toppings?

A platter of food made into the shape of a tree. Maybe cucumber for the tree, kabana for the trunk, mini tomatoes for baubles, cheese for the star.

[Lenny]

Savoury biscuits in star shapes? There is nothing wrong with cheese sandwiches in shapes! I remember the first year i spent so long making something awesome and the kids didn't eat them - they are surrounded by so much.

Once I did gingerbread stars and trees and iced with pre-bought christmas icing tubes - red, green, white. They looked great. And i didn't spend too much time on them.

I tried those strawberry santas and i could not get the cream strong enough to hold the 'hat' on. We had a lot of strawberries and cream, but it didn't look nearly as cute!

[leesha]

I saw in my local Aldi packet mixes to make Christmas tree cookies! They look nice and easy to make. Comes with the cookie cutter, icing and sprinkles to decorate! Oh and only $3 so even better

[2CheekyMonkeys]

Can you just use canned whipped cream for strawberry Santana? Would that work?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Santa hats... Cut the top off the strawberry (so its flat) dip the now bottom in white choc, all it to set then turn them point up & put a dot of cream on the top as a Pom Pom... Also on Pinterest.

[Rouge]

Reindeer bread. Make gingerbread men using a regular cutter. Turn upside down and decorate as reindeers. Using either a Jaffa or raspberry lolly as the nose. Pipe eyes and antlers with royal icing or melted chocolate.

[Lenny]

Savoury and healthy is difficult! I have been looking now too.

[Frangipani Lou]

How about bits on sticks? Cheese, cucumber, red and green capsicum etc cut into small star shapes and stuck into an orange or a pear with the bottom cut off to keep it flat and you could even add some kabana or thick ham cut up too. A pear would kinda make it look like a decorated Xmas tree!

[Olive]

I recently had to make savoury sandwiches for school, I used cookie cutter then used the pre brought icing pens and decorated the sandwiches....they were the first things eaten!

[~Kim~]

I think the shaped sandwiches are neat. If I was 3 I'd think they were great too.

You can get little silcone christmas shaped ice cube trays at Kmart. You could make mini savoury muffins in them?
I like the christmas coloured sticks too.

Those santas are hard. No matter how stiff I made the cream, they wouldn't stay put. The canned cream is useless, unless you lived in oh Antarctica lol....and that's about as far from here as it gets.

[Miss_Dee]

Maybe I won't try the Santa strawberries this weekend then! Lol

[Deedles]

For our kindy party we took a plate that had green and red compartments and just put in them red cherries, cheese , mini pastry cups with salsa, carrot, cucumber, celery , cherry toms and hommus in the middle. It was beautifully colorful and the kids loved it.

[PumpkinZulu]

Put icing sugar in with the cream for the strawberries

[sangie]

I'd do shaped sandwiches or shaped pikelets if your DD likes them?
We had Christmas fruit skewers at kindy last year - they had watermelon and green grapes on them and then drizzled with some white choc (you could obviously leave off the choc for a healthy version).

[LuluHB]

Thanks ladies. Lots of good ideas there. Yep - she loves pikelets Sangie so I could maybe make cheesey sort of ones to qualify as savoury.

I made the strawberry santas last year when DD1 had to take a sweet plate. I made mini muffins for the base, and then the strawberries on the top but used icing not cream because yeah, the cream just goes everywhere. They were incredibly awesome (if I do say so myself!) and then DD1 was sick and couldn't go to kindy anyway so we had 35 santas in the freezer for ages.

[mrscricket]

Oh I remember your thread about that too LuluHB! Poor little thing! Hopefully she has extra fun this year! I made a platter using fruit in the shape of a christmas tree - grapes for the green, little bit of watermelon and raspberries for the decorations etc. DS didn't even notice it was a tree I was impressed with myself though