Fun Healthy Snacks For Kids

Below you’ll find links to 10 fun food tutorials that I hope will help your kids (or anyone!), get excited about vegetables, fruits and even water. They’re all really easy to prepare and fun!

## Carrot & Cucumber Coins

   These carrot coins are very quick and easy to make, and are great as a fun snack, or to pop in a lunch box too.

### *Ingredients:*

* ¼ cucumber
* ½ carrot

### *Method:*

1. Prepare the vegetables - wash the cucumber, peel the carrot.
2. Cut as many round slices as you'd like from the cucumber, then cut off the same amount of carrot disks with roughly the same thickness.
3. Taking some mini bento cutters (you'll find a selection in the Eats Amazing Shop, my favourites are the alphabet cutters, great for fun themed lunches!), and cut a shape from the centre of a carrot slice. Carefully remove the shape from the cutter, and set to one side.
4. Using the same cutter, cut a shape from the centre of a cucumber slice. Remove the shape, then pop it into the hole in the carrot slice. Take the carrot shape and pop it into the hole in the cucumber.
5. Repeat until all of the carrot and cucumber slices have swapped middles - fun!

Pack in a lunch box or snack box - these are a great little snack for when you're out and about, I try take healthy snacks with me for the kids to avoid the temptation of buying something less.

## Rainbow Fruit Ice Cubes

Today I'm sharing a simple idea for rainbow fruit ice cubes. I've found these a really fun way to jazz up plain drinking water for kids, helping to keep them happy and hydrated.

Although I suspect that novelty value is playing a big part in this, it's been a couple of weeks and the ice cube trick is still working! In the meantime, I've decided to have some fun with them in the hope of extending the novelty value of ice cubes for as long as possible, and these fruity ice cubes are my latest experiment.

They were quick and easy to make, and Small Child really loved them.  As they melted, they gave the water a hint of fruity flavour, and Small Child loved having a mini frosty fruit salad to snack on when he'd finished drinking his water!

### *Ingredients:*

* handful raspberries
* handful blueberries
* 1 kiwi fruit
* 1 mandarin orange
* jug cold water

### *Method:*

1. Start by washing the raspberries and blueberries, then fill a quarter of an ice cube tray with each fruit.
2. Peel and roughly chop the kiwi, and add to the ice cube tray
3. Peel the mandarin orange, removing as much of the white pith as possible. Break it into segments, then cut each segment in half.  Use them to fill the last quarter of the ice cube tray.
4. When each compartment in the tray has been filled with fruit, pour over water to fill them all up.
5. Pop into the freezer and freeze overnight or until frozen solid.
6. Pop one of each flavour ice cube into a glass and top up with still or sparkling water for a pretty rainbow drink - yum!

## Tomato And Grape Hearts

These cute and healthy little hearts take just seconds to make and are perfect for popping in lunch boxes, party food, or just serving up as a fun and healthy snack for kids.

### *Ingredients:*

* baby plum tomatoes
* red seedless grapes
* cocktail sticks, bento picks or bamboo skewers

### *Method:*

1. Wash and gently dry your tomatoes and grapes.
2. With a sharp knife, cut a tomato in half on the diagonal. Flip one half of the tomato over and push the two cut edges together to form a heart.
3. Use a cocktail stick or bento pick to pin the two halves together. Repeat with a grape.
4. To make the skewers, repeat as above but thread onto bamboo skewers, alternating between tomatoes and grapes.

Be sure to warn your children to remove the skewers before eating!