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Are you looking for fun, easy to make healthy Christmas snacks for kids? You and your whole family will love our holiday treat ideas. Their sweetness comes from the goodness of colorful fruits and vegetables. This post is sponsored by HueTrition.

Healthy Christmas Snacks for Kids - Fruit Wreath

We love the idea of nutritious eating by focusing on the colors of the rainbow. So we’re continuing to partner with our friends at HueTrition to inspire you and your family with healthy and colorful food ideas.

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The holiday season is here… and that often means more comfort food and sweet treats than we usually eat. This sugary season can impact what our kids eat and how they feel and behave during the holidays.

But you can make holiday-themed sweet treats with nature’s candy! Colorful fruits and vegetables are the perfect way to nourish your children with the vitamins they need while letting them enjoy a tasty snack. We have made four delicious and healthy holiday snack ideas for you and your kids.

Fruit Grinch Santas - Healthy Christmas Snacks

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Healthy Christmas Snacks for Kids

We’ve come up with some of our own ideas for healthy Christmas Snacks for kids made from fruits and vegetables.

Strawberry Banana “Peppermint” Sticks

It just wouldn’t feel like the holidays without peppermint sticks and candy canes. For this simple and healthy snack, slices of fresh fruit mimic those iconic candy stripes. This fun, festive treat is so simple it really doesn’t even need instructions.

Fruit Candy Canes - Healthy Christmas Snacks for Kids

What You’ll Need:

  • bananas
  • strawberries
  • wooden skewers
  • knife
  • cutting board

Directions:

  1. Cut thick slices of strawberries and bananas.
  2. Thread the fruit slices onto wooden skewers in an alternating pattern. For younger children, skip the wooden skewers and lay the fruit onto a plate into a candy cane design.

Cucumber Melon Christmas Trees

Edible trees made with fruits and vegetables are perfect for healthy holiday snacking!

Healthy Christmas Snacks for Kids - cucumber trees with star toppers

What You’ll Need:

  • cucumbers
  • knife
  • wooden skewers
  • cantaloupe or melon
  • star cookie cutter

Directions:

  1. Cut thin slices of cucumber. (Optional: You can peel the cucumbers before slicing. The choice is yours. The unpeeled slices are a little stiffer, but they have a lovely dark green color.)
  2. Scrunch up the slices of cucumber and thread them on wooden skewers. You’ll want to narrow the width as you go to create the illusion of a tree. Thread as many slices onto the wooden skewer as you need.
  3. Cut slices of cantaloupe. Use a star-shaped cookie cutter to cut stars from slices.
  4. Thread the star-shaped fruit onto the wooden skewers to top off your cucumber trees.

Apple Pomegranate Wreath

Apples and pomegranates combine to create a festive fruit tray that’s a cinch to pull together!

Healthy Christmas Snacks - Christmas Wreath Fruit Tray

What You’ll Need:

  • apple slices
  • fresh pomegranate
  • plate

Directions:

  1. Simply line the outside of a plate with slices of green apple.
  2. Sprinkle pomegranate over the apples to add pops of color and nutrition.
  3. If desired, you can use other pieces of sliced fruit to create a bow. Triangular-shaped pineapple slices put together are just one of many fun options for a bow. Feel free to get creative with other fruits sprinkled in like blueberries or raspberries.

Fun Fruit Santas

Turn fruit into Santas with this fun snack idea.

Fruit Grinch Santas - Healthy Christmas Snacks for Kids

What You’ll Need:

  • wooden skewers
  • bananas
  • strawberries
  • grapes

Directions:

  1. Slice off the leafy tops of the strawberries for Santa hats.
  2. Peel and cut a banana into slices to serve as the fuzzy parts of the Santa hats.
  3. Thread a grape, banana slice, strawberry, and banana tip (in that order) onto a wooden skewer. For an added touch, you can even use a food-safe marker to draw faces on the grapes.

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Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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171 Comments

  13. In the winter, I love navel oranges. Other favorite fruits during the year are cantalopes, Granny Smith apples, peaches, strawberries, blueberries and kiwi fruit. Favorite veggies are broccoli, asparagus, yellow squash, zucchini, and green beans.

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  16. Cantaloupe and watermelon are my favorite fruits all year..even if I have to pay more! I love strawberries and bananas too… sliced up in a bowl in the morning.

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  25. I love ALL fruits except for Fresh papaya. I love mangosteen, rambutan, strawberries, coconuts, bananas, watermelon.

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  26. In the winter we enjoy sampling the many varieties of apples that are available, and snacking on baby carrots, strips of red-yellow-orange-green bell peppers, and broccoli with our favorite homemade non-fat yogurt based dip recipe.

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  30. I like to take sliced melon and use little cookie cutters to cut our stars and Christmas trees and other shapes.

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  32. My favorite vegetable for all seasons is carrots, and my favorite winter fruit is Persimmons! Both orange! Lol!

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  47. I love making a chopped apple salad with pomegranates and adding some cinnamon and nutmeg. I like to pair it with a pork chop for dinner.

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  52. My favorite colorful fruits and veggies in the winter are squash pumpkin, sweet potatoes, pears, and apples.

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  65. I’m not one who likes a lot of fruits and vegetables, but I do like potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, strawberries, watermelon, corn, onions, and such.

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  69. In our neck of the woods,we love the tangerines (by a brand name) we eat those little oranges like candy!! I also love a good grapefruit.

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  84. My favorites is strawberry and bananna’s my daughter also likes them. I guess now I need to go and make her a snack. Thanks so much for sharing about the giveaway! It is amazing I would love to win.

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  85. I love all the fruits during summer but for some reason in winter I’m really only into Apples, oranges and bananas.

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  91. My favorite fruits in the winter are honeydew and bananas! Bananas are perfect for baking banana bread near Christmas time!

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  95. Thank you for the giveaway. My favorite colorful fruits and veggies are berries, kiwi, sweet potatoes, squash, and bell peppers.

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  111. Tomatoes, butternut squash, fresh green beans, red and orange peppers, plums, grapes, cranberries, and apples are some of my favorites!

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  113. Pears, apples, bananas and blueberries are staples in our home at this time of the year. It is also time to start making persimmon cookies – YUM!

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  114. There’s nothing more Christmas than Mandarin Oranges/Cuties/Satsumas/Whatever else they may be called! We always go a few in our stocking and our family of 9 ate through a dozen boxes during the month of December.

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  116. Every Christmas (& most holidays) I make a fruit salad that can be made with canned fruit although fresh is so much better(frozen is too mushy). I use fresh pineapple, bananas, grapes, & usually canned orange segments, a bit of lemon/lime to keep color, & cottage cheese mixed with cool whip. I’ve also used vanilla yogurt & dash of honey. There is nothing better than a nice ripe pineapple tho imho.

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  118. We love almost all fruits and vegetables. Especially pomegranates, clementines, blackberries, arugula, asparagus, sweet potatoes and bell peppers.

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  132. I love playing with colors during the dark gloomy winter days in the PNW – so butternut squash, red onion, purple potatoes, white & purple cauliflower, and broccoli are all part of my winter repertoire!

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  134. Pomegranates have and are one of my favorite fall fruits. We were so excited when pomegranates arrived in our grocery stores.

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  141. I love pineapple, watermelon, banana and grapes. I like to mix them all in a bowl for a great breakfast or snack

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