The weather is getting cooler, but that won’t stop your kids from playing outside.
And when they’re done playing, they’ll want something to nibble on, whether that means after-school snacks or a mid-afternoon treat during their weekend playtime.
That’s why Swingset & Toy Warehouse has put together this guide to making your kids some fall snacks. These are things they can enjoy at your kitchen table or the picnic table, the lemonade stand or inside their swing set fort. Enjoy!
- A mini-pizza on an English muffin or a bagel.
- A mini bagel topped with peanut butter
- Cereal doesn’t have to be for breakfast. Let your kids have a bowl with some milk and fruit.
- Or serve them a bowl of fruit and granola, mixed with some yogurt.
- Cheese and crackers, served with or without some salami slices, depending on you and your kids’ tastes.
- Cut up veggies, with low-fat ranch dressing as a dipping sauce.
- Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and nuts.
- Pretzels, goldfish crackers or Teddy Grahams.
- Celery with low-fat cream cheese or peanut butter.
- Fresh fruit
- Canned fruit
- Peanut butter on graham crackers.
- Low-fat string cheese.
- Breakfast bars.
- Bananas or apples topped with peanut butter.
The next few fall snacks require a little bit of preparation, but don’t worry: these are things you can whip up in a few quick steps.
Banana Pops
This one is pretty simple: Peel a banana, dip it in yogurt, and then in granola or cereal. Place it in the freezer, and soon you’ll have a crunchy, healthy banana popsicle.
Kid-Made Snack Mix
Start by putting out a series of bowls, each of them filled with one of these ingredients. (You don’t need to pick everything from the list.)
- Raisins (plain or yogurt covered)
- Goldfish crackers
- A small mix of M&Ms, chocolate chips, and miniature marshmallows
- Chex cereal
- Life cereal
- Cheerios
- Small pretzels or pretzel sticks
- Nuts (assuming no one in the group is allergic)
Have the kids wash their hands, and give them each a baggie with their name on it. Allow them to scoop their choice of ingredients into their bags. Set limits: say ½ of a cup of four of the ingredients.
Not-Quite S’mores
This next fall snack lets your kids and their friends enjoy the taste of s’mores without having to build a campfire or fire up your grill. Just use chocolate covered graham crackers and spread marshmallow fluff over them for an easy, no-heat-necessary version of s’mores.
Coconut Milk Hot Cocoa
Every kid deserves a nice cup of hot cocoa on a crisp fall day, but not every kid can drink milk. Fortunately, there’s coconut milk hot cocoa.
To make it, you’ll need:
- 2 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 cup of cocoa
- 2 ½ cups of powdered coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 teaspoons of cornstarch
- Hot water
To make the cocoa, combine all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and incorporate them evenly. Heat four to six cups of hot water, and then stir in your ingredients, and enjoy!
We hope this list of after-school fall snacks comes in handy the next time your son or daughter shows up with a mini-army of friends. You’ll be able to send them back to their backyard playset full of energy and ready to tackle whatever their imagination brings.
And if you have any other ideas for fall snacks we haven’t mentioned, be sure to share them in our comment section below. We’d love to hear from you.
