Fun Holiday Activities for Kids with Ingredients from Nick’s

When your kids have time off from school during the holidays, you might struggle to reign in their energy and keep them occupied. One thing you can do is invite them into the kitchen to help you cook up some yummy holiday meals and treats. They’ll not only learn a few important life skills but will also be able to enjoy and share their hard work. Here are some kid-friendly holiday recipes that you can create this year. 

1. Christmas Tacos

You’ll want to slow-cook the short rib for this recipe. Once that’s done, get the kids together to prepare and assemble these delicious and colorful Christmas tacos with other ingredients like corn tortillas, pomegranate seeds, lime, cheese, and fresh cilantro. 

2. Mini Holiday Pizzas

Similar to the taco idea, kids love assembling their own meals. Another fun and kid-friendly meal you can make is Christmas tree mini pizzas. Using puff pastry crust to create your trees, lay them out and have the kids add pizza sauce, pepperoni, cheese, and other toppings. 

3. Holiday Ribbon Gelatin

This colorful holiday ribbon gelatin is something you can assemble with your kids. It’s a great lesson in patience, as the layers need to be firm before moving on to the next step. It includes cream cheese, pineapple juice, and several flavors of gelatin. 

4. Banana Pancake Snowmen

Kids love to help cook breakfast, and nothing is more fun than pancakes. Using your homemade pancake recipe or a mix, you simply add some smashed ripe bananas and decorate your snowmen using chocolate chips, pretzel sticks, and dried cranberries. 

5. Gingerbread People

Decorating holiday cookies can be an engaging activity that creates a lifetime of memories for your children. This gingerbread cookie recipe is perfect for creating whatever shapes your cookie cutter wants, so you can create interesting and delicious cookies made from molasses and brown sugar. 

6. Peppermint Bark

It’s not the holidays with at least a little bit of candy. This recipe for classic peppermint bark is easy to make, so the kids can help. It includes layers of white and dark chocolate with crushed candy canes on top. 

7. Ornament Popcorn Balls

These easy ornament popcorn balls will be a new favorite tradition with your family. You’ll need unpopped popcorn, marshmallows, butter, candies, and candy canes to create popcorn balls you can hang on your tree and devour later. 

8. Quesadilla Trees

Here is another snack or appetizer you and your kids can assemble and devour together. To make these Christmas tree quesadillas, you’ll need some flour tortillas, black beans, guacamole, pomegranate seeds, celery stalks, bell peppers, and your favorite cheese.

9. Banana Snowpeople

If you’re looking for a healthy holiday snack to make and enjoy with your kids, these banana snowpeople will be a ton of fun. Using wooden skewers, you can create snowmen with sliced bananas, strawberries, and grapes. Then, use mini chocolate chips and small carrot slices to create the buttons, eyes, and mouth. 

10. Marshmallow Dreidels

These marshmallow dreidels are easy and fun to make. You’ll want to get 1-inch square marshmallows, some white and blue candy melts, a bag of Hershey’s Kisses, and some wooden skewers or biscuit sticks. You can work the microwave while your kids do the decorating. 

11. Rudolph Celery Snacks

It can be challenging to get kids to eat something that’s not junk during the holidays. Another healthy holiday snack you can put together with your kids is these Rudolph celery snacks. These cute creations are made from fresh celery sticks, creamy peanut butter or Nutella, jelly, raisins for the eyes, and pretzels for the antlers. 

12. Chocolate-Dipped Candy Canes

Chocolate-dipped candy canes are a blast to make. And they are perfect to save as special treats or include as part of a gift. All you need are candy canes and melting chocolate or chocolate chips. For the decorative sprinkles, you can crush additional canes or buy other packaged sprinkles in different colors and shapes. 

Shop for Your Holiday Recipe Ingredients at Nick’s of Calvert

Now that you have some holiday recipe ideas that you can prepare with your kids, it’s time to stock up on the ingredients. As a family-run business for over 50 years, Nick’s of Calvert is devoted to serving the needs of its local Southern Maryland customers like yourself. 

We will no doubt have the items you need in addition to many unique and delicious selections that can complement your special creations. Visit us today or give us a call at (410) 414-7105.