Celebrating your child’s birthday can be filled with lots of joy and happiness and also sugar! Kid’s birthdays are often filled with making candy necklaces, hitting candy filled piñatas, soda, juice, cake and ice cream. Otherwise known as oodles and oodles of sugar! So make your child’s next birthday party just as fun and tasty without the oodles of sugar, with some healthful tips from The Creative Kitchen.

Entertainment: 

Instead of serving pizza or chicken nuggets, have kids make their own healthful dish such as whole wheat pasta salad or fruit and vegetable dips. In addition to the kids eating a more healthful meal they are also entertained and kept busy with a fun and engaging activity, and mom is also saving time on party prep!

Craft Ideas:

Another way to get kids excited and involved is crafts! Instead of making bracelets with candy or candy cereal try using a combination of freeze dried fruits such as: strawberries, bananas, pineapple, or apple, dried fruit such as: raisins, papaya, or diced apricots, and toasted oat cereal. Or consider making a fun recycled craft, such as making cereal box crowns that kids can decorate and personalize. Nothing like a custom birthday hat!

Decorations: 

Decorating for a child’s party can be friendly to our planet and still look adorable! Companies like “Susty Party” have a wide selection of colorful and fun decorations for any party that are friendly to mother earth and your wallet!

Drinks:

If you want to serve juice at your child’s party consider using low sugar juice that you water down a little. If you would rather serve something both kids and adults alike will enjoy, consider serving flavored water by placing strawberries or oranges in the water to make ordinary water, colorful and flavorful!

Snack:

For a quick and ready snack consider serving an all natural nutrient packed snack like Happy Squeezes smoothies  from “Happy Family“. Place the snacks in a basket where they are an easy and convenient grab-and-go snack that the kids can eat throughout the party. Or put them in the freezer for a couple of hours before the party for a yummy stay-cool treat.

Dessert: 

If you are planning to serve cake consider decorating it with sweet freeze dried fruits or by using sprinkles and decorations like “Breyers” all natural toppings or “Surf Sweets.” It is a matter of using the fun-colored decorations that kids love, but that are made with all natural dyes, since they are better for the little bodies consuming them. We love products made with “GNT,” which uses dyes made from fruit and vegetable colorings.   

If serving cupcakes consider having kids decorate their very own cupcake with all natural candies. And  to drink think about serving individual milk boxes that do not need to be refrigerated such as “Organic Valley” single serves. Or if you are looking for a cool and fun treat consider making homemade fruit popsicles to hand out to the party guests. These can have a fun factor frozen right in, by using sliced fruit like kiwis to create fun and colorful designs. 

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner.  Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children.  She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

There’s nothing like a tasty ice cream sundae on a hot summer’s day. And, now thanks to our friends at Breyers and their new line of delicious sundae toppings, we can keep the words “hot and sticky” to describe the hot summer weather, and not the ice cream toppings! Breyers new line of Easy-Peazy and Squeezy twist top sauce pouches cut out the messy sticky part of jars, AND they are high-fructose corn syrup free! In addition Breyers also has an assortment of fun sprinkles and sweet all-fruit toppings to keep the kids pouring on the fun!

From the Mouth of a Kid:

There’s so many yummy flavors I can choose from and I can pour the caramel and chocolate sauce on myself!! The strawberries are really sweet and tasty!

From the Eyes of a Parent:

Ice cream sundaes are fun treat in the summertime, but the sticky mess that usually goes along with them can be a bit nightmare. Breyers has taken the mess out of our favorite ice cream toppings. The squeezable pouches reduce the mess and also allow the kids to top their own treats. I also feel much better about feeding the kids these toppings because they are free of high-fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oils. The fruit toppings taste fresh and homemade while the chocolate and caramel are creamy and so indulgent!

Flavorful Features:

Sauces: hot fudge, caramel and chocolate sauces,

Real fruit toppings: cherry, strawberry and mixed berry

Sprinkles: Chocolate and rainbow sprinkles

The Icing on the Cake:

The sauces are made without high fructose corn syrup! The fruit toppings are made without high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, artificial color or preservatives, and have 10 grams of sugar or less per serving! AND the sprinkles are made without high-fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Time to Eat?!

A cool after school treat, weekend dessert or a special party/birthday treat!

Good to Go?

Easily transportable to and from events thanks to the twist off tops on the caramel and chocolate sauce pouches. The fruit toppings come in jars and can also be resealed.

Mix it Up!

Add a yummy swirl to frozen or regular yogurt. Or take your ice cream sandwiches to the next level with a fruit topping, sauce, or colorful sprinkles!

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner.  Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children.  She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.