Cooking Ideas For Kids' Birthday Parties
Hosting a child’s birthday party is both a pleasant as well as an unpleasant experience. While you want throw the best bash for your little one and to see all the guests enjoy themselves to the hilt, you also know that this is going to be one of the most trying and tiring times for you. Keeping in view the fact that you will be responsible for the décor, the invites, the games, the gifts and baby sitting hordes of kids, we provide you here with some cooking ideas for simple to make, easy to handle, children friendly foods for a kid’s birthday party.
Snacks and Finger Foods: Most small kids find it very tough to handle plates and eat properly, especially when there are so many other things that they can do. However, you cannot really send your child’s friends back home with an empty stomach either. The best way to cater for your little guests is to have a large number of finger foods that the kids can pick up and stuff while carrying on with their games. If your guests’ parents will not mind, then French fries in different shapes and sizes, wafers and sausages or chicken fingers, nuggets etc. make for filling and tasty snacks. Of course, supplement these high fat content finger foods with fruit and vegetable sticks served with a couple of nice dips, harmless popcorn and low fat crackers and pretzels.
Adult Food In Kid Sized Portions: Children generally love pizzas and burgers, but when they get adult sized slices or portions, they generally end up making a mess out of it. If you do not want children dropping off the insides of their burgers or the tops of their pizzas when eating, then cater for mini pizzas and mini burgers that each child will be able to handle independently. Apart from the fact that this will make for a cleaner party, you will also save a lot of food from being wasted since most children should be able to finish off these small portions easily. Another advantage is that mini pizzas and similar food are easier to serve since you just need to hand one each to each child instead of cutting slices or portioning large burgers.
Snacks and Finger Foods: Most small kids find it very tough to handle plates and eat properly, especially when there are so many other things that they can do. However, you cannot really send your child’s friends back home with an empty stomach either. The best way to cater for your little guests is to have a large number of finger foods that the kids can pick up and stuff while carrying on with their games. If your guests’ parents will not mind, then French fries in different shapes and sizes, wafers and sausages or chicken fingers, nuggets etc. make for filling and tasty snacks. Of course, supplement these high fat content finger foods with fruit and vegetable sticks served with a couple of nice dips, harmless popcorn and low fat crackers and pretzels.
Adult Food In Kid Sized Portions: Children generally love pizzas and burgers, but when they get adult sized slices or portions, they generally end up making a mess out of it. If you do not want children dropping off the insides of their burgers or the tops of their pizzas when eating, then cater for mini pizzas and mini burgers that each child will be able to handle independently. Apart from the fact that this will make for a cleaner party, you will also save a lot of food from being wasted since most children should be able to finish off these small portions easily. Another advantage is that mini pizzas and similar food are easier to serve since you just need to hand one each to each child instead of cutting slices or portioning large burgers.
Drinks: While most kids simply love soda, you might not be very loved by their parents if that is all you serve at your child’s birthday party. To make for a balanced drinks table, serve different flavored sodas along with juices, ginger ale and lemonade. Try not to serve drinks that leave strong stains like grape and pomegranate juice or pink and orange soda etc.
Cakes and Ice Cream: No kid’s birthday party is complete without a cake and ice cream. While you will have to cut and serve the cake only once during the middle of the party, serving ice cream to hordes of little children can get to be a troublesome task. The thing to do is to scoop out as many portions as you need way before time, roll the scoops in fruits, nuts, choco chips or sprinkles and set in the freezer on top of a waxed baking sheet. Once the scoops are solid, you can wrap it up in plastic bags to take out and serve on waffle cones or cups during the party. Another god idea is buying packed ice cream cups or cones and serve as is.
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Cakes and Ice Cream: No kid’s birthday party is complete without a cake and ice cream. While you will have to cut and serve the cake only once during the middle of the party, serving ice cream to hordes of little children can get to be a troublesome task. The thing to do is to scoop out as many portions as you need way before time, roll the scoops in fruits, nuts, choco chips or sprinkles and set in the freezer on top of a waxed baking sheet. Once the scoops are solid, you can wrap it up in plastic bags to take out and serve on waffle cones or cups during the party. Another god idea is buying packed ice cream cups or cones and serve as is.
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