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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.)
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.
6. Holiday Fudge
Let the kids help stir the chocolate while melting and add the sprinkles to this easy Christmas fudge. No baking required.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
These look like so much fun! The kiddos will love them.
Thanks Kell--my kids LOVE them all!
Kristen, these are so fun and creative! I love it! My kids are a little older but my daughter loves to do this kind of stuff with my niece and nephews! Thanks for sharing it with us at Foodie Fridays! Pinning!
What do you mean your kids are too old? Oh, maybe that is why my pre-teen is starting to roll his eyes at me and asking me to stop packing him cookie cutter sandwiches:) HA! HA!
13, 15, and 17...yes, they'd definitely roll their eyes at me if I made them a reindeer anything...haha. But I love these, and I wish I had been this creative when they were little! These ideas are adorable!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday Kristen, and wishing you a fabulous 2015!
I don't have the patience that goes into the first couple pictures. However, I love doing gingerbread houses!
Well Natalie if you have children, you could get out the supplies and let them go to town themselves.
These are so cute and so much fun! Santa Pancakes is my favorite.
Thanks so much Lysha.
Love that the Santa beard is made out of bananas - my daughter could eat an entire bunch every day if we let her! My mother-in-law recently found a Pinterest idea that uses bananas and pretzel sticks to make snowmen, so we'll be doing that this year.
Such great kid friendly holiday treats!
Thanks Melanie!
So cute! I love food art. Will definitely try my hand at the Pancake Santa.
I promise you it is not that hard--you could even show your kids the picture and let them go to town.