Creative and tasty ideas kids party.
My sister has asked for my help with my niece's 8 year old birthday party does anyone have any suggestions for creative appetizer-type foods or a website that would have any ideas? Thanks.
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Martha Stewart's kids section has some marvelous foods and aesthetic ideas. Personally, I loved as a kid when my party had a theme and making your niece an active part in selecting the theme, games, and food will be the best present ever!
HeartofGlass at 1:57PM on 07/21/08
For my nine year old's birthday this year we had tacos - the kids could make their own and they just loved it. Ok a tad messy, but nothing I couldn't sweep up once they were done (the cat helped out too!)
Make your own pizza is another thing that she has had at peer's parties. Another hit, according to the comments I heard.
Kabobs can be fun too - lay out the ingredients and depending on their comfort level with meat re hygiene, let them build their own and then grill or broil them up. Another idea is to use chicken nuggets (store bought or home made) as the protein to avoid SOME contamination issues. Another option is salami or keilbasa (but that makes my later comment about hot dogs a tad hypocritical methinks!)
I find nachos are popular with many children, but the heat factor can be an issue (some kids like spicy, some don't - and what is mild salsa to me or you is wildly hot to little Johnny). I try VERY hard to stay away from hot dogs (not a snob but often when my girl goes to friends, the parents serve such things in an effort to make her comfy and ensure she eats - she has a medical issue that hunger exacerbates).
You can never go wrong with veggies and dip and fruit skewers - the kids ignore the chips and go for those in my experience.
Have a super party!
Maureen at 2:49PM on 07/21/08
I agree with HeartofGlass that Martha Stewart has lots of good ideas for this.
My eight-year-old granddaughter is very focused on the cake and having it decorated with her favorite things. (Puppies in her case.) It might be good to see if your neice feels the same.
Good luck!
Blue Iris at 5:19PM on 07/21/08
I've never seen this before, but I've always wondered why they don't have 'make your own cupcake' bars for kids--giving kids a naked cupcake, and letting them choose icing and then allowing them to decorate the cake.
HeartofGlass at 7:02PM on 07/21/08
My mom used to be very creative with some of our food when we were kids. One healthy snack that she served often was "barbells." It basically was carrot sticks with black olives on either end.
She'd also do themed parties. One I remember in particular was a strawberry shortcake party where we had strawberry everything- strawberry jam sandwiches, strawberry soda, strawberry cake, strawberry ice cream.....
cmtigger at 8:40PM on 07/21/08
a friend of mine had a cupcake-decorating party for her daughter... she bought the cupcakes and all the trimmings for the girls to decorate themselves.
I like the idea of the pizza party and the taco/quesadillas party. I saw in this weekend's Simply Delicioso episode where she took quesadillas and cut them to look like fish... really cute.
And reading the remark above... when I turned 10, my birthday was all strawberry shortcake too... and my mom had a strawberry shortcake cake, strawberry marzipan candy, strawberry tarts, a punch with floating strawberries and she even bought a Glade air freshener in strawberry scent and kept spraying it throughout the party... she went ALL out!!!
MadelynRodriguez at 11:49PM on 07/21/08
These are great suggestions, thanks to everyone, I don't know what to do first!!!
Rhiannon at 9:43AM on 07/22/08
If you try quesadillas, be sure to check out the Pioneer Woman's quesadillas... her technique makes it really easy to do make-your-own quesadillas for a crowd!
Cary at 12:58PM on 07/22/08
A few simple ideas:
--strawberries dipped in sweetened cream cheese and rolled in sprinkles
--roll slices of bologna around mozzarella sticks and stick with toothpicks for easy-to-eat bologna roll-ups
--homemade gourmet peanut butter sandwiches (process peanuts, almonds or walnuts with chocolate chips and a bit of oil until smooth; then spread on bread and use cookie cutters to cut into shapes)
Cookingmom at 1:25PM on 07/22/08
This may be too much to tackle, but I'm a fan of rice crispy treat "sushi" for kids. Swedish fish rolled inside rice crispy treats wrapped in fruit rollups, or Swedish fish on top of rice crispy treat pieces.
cyberroo at 8:28PM on 07/22/08