Easy Kid-Friendly Christmas Recipes

Updated Nov 28, 2021

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Add a little magic to your food this holiday season with these easy kid-friendly Christmas recipes. Whether you whip them up yourself or let the kids help, these easy, festive recipes are sure to bring a smile to children, big and small!

Collage of Santa pancakes, candy cane pizza, reindeer cookies, and reindeer pretzels with title text overlay that reads Christmas food ideas for kids.

As the holidays approach, I become giddy with excitement that I get to play with my food! From Christmas Cookies to Easy Christmas treats, I love making festive holiday recipes.

But when it comes to getting the kids involved, I like to keep it simple. And these EASY Christmas recipes are the perfect holiday treats to make with your little helpers (or to surprise them with for a little holiday cheer).

Have a little fun with your family and your food this year! The memories will last a lifetime!

The Ultimate Kid-Friendly Christmas Recipes

Santa made out of pancake, strawberries, and banana on white plate.

1. Santa Pancakes

Start with your favorite pancake recipe (like whole wheat pancakes, gluten-free oat pancakes, or egg-free pancakes) and add bananas, strawberries, whipped cream, and chocolate chips to make the ultimate kid-friendly Christmas breakfast.

Christmas tree vegetable platter with yellow star.

2. Christmas Tree Vegetable Tray

Create a festive veggie tray kids will love! Arrange broccoli as a Christmas tree, red pepper strips as garland, and olives as ornaments. Top with a yellow pepper star and serve with hummus, buttermilk ranch dressing, or dill dip.

Rice cake spread with peanut butter topped with banana and cherry to look like rudolph.

3. Rudolph Snack Cake

Make a Rudolph inspired after-school Christmas snack in minutes. Spread a rice cake with nut butter, add pretzel antlers, a cherry or red candy nose, and banana slices with chocolate chips for eyes. Perfect for Christmas fun!

Candy Cane Shaped Pepperoni Pizza on baking sheet.

4. Candy Cane Pizza

This Christmas pizza is perfect for kid-friendly dinners in the month of December. Let the kids help shape the pizza dough and make candy cane stripes with pepperoni (or pizza sauce.)

Candy Cane cookies hanging on a clear drinking glass.

5. Candy Cane Cookies

Making these festive Christmas cookies is like playing with Play-Doh--with the sweetest result! I still remember shaping these cookies as a child and my kids love to help make them now.

Layered fudge with Christmas sprinkles on cutting board.

6. Holiday Fudge

Let the kids help stir the chocolate while melting and add the sprinkles to this easy Christmas fudge. No baking required.

Close up of mug of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and crushed peppermints.

7. Homemade Hot Chocolate

What holiday season is complete without rich, creamy hot chocolate? Our Christmas tradition is to enjoy homemade hot chocolate while looking at Christmas lights.

Hot Chocolate Oatmeal in blue mug topped with marshmallows.

8. Hot Cocoa Oatmeal

Make breakfast fun (and relatively healthy) with this delicious chocolate oatmeal. Top with marshmallows and watch your kids smile AND devour breakfast.

Stack of 5 homemade thin mint cookies made with butter round crackers on wooden cutting board with fresh mint leaves to the side.

9. Easy Thin Mint Cookies

One of the easiest Christmas recipes! For Christmas, you can even skip the mint extract and let the kids crush candy canes to sprinkle on the chocolate-dipped crackers before the chocolate sets up.

A homemade Tagalong Cookie broke open to show butter cracker, peanut butter, and chocolate layer.

10. Tagalong Cookies

When my family gathers together to bake cookies at the holidays, the kids are tasked with the spreading peanut butter on butter crackers. It is an easy, risk-free job that delivers a sweet reward!

Reindeer Sugar Cookie next to santa mug.

11. Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

One of my kids favorite Christmas recipes to help make is sugar cookies. Whether decorated simply with sugar cookie icing or decorated like a Reindeer cookie, precious memories always accompany this Christmas recipe.

Bowl of saltine cracker toffee with walnuts and chocolate chips on counter.

12. Saltine Cracker Toffee

Another super easy Christmas recipe that is perfect for kids to help with! I suggest having the kids lay out the crackers on the baking sheet and help sprinkle the nuts on the chocolate.

13. Reindeer Pretzels

This simple Christmas recipe is perfect for kids to make themselves. It is a super easy holiday treat that kids not only love to eat, but have fun making as well.

Plate of holiday chocolate bark topped with m&ms, pretzels, nuts, and sprinkles.

14. Christmas Bark

My kids always have fun adding festive toppings to this easy Christmas chocolate bark. Just be warned, that some of the toppings may be consumed before the bark is made.😉

I hope you enjoy some festive fun with these simple homemade treats perfect for Christmas! xo, Kristen