4 Fun and Easy-to-Make Thanksgiving Snacks for Kids

Fun Thanksgiving snacks for kids that are quick, easy, and inexpensive to make. These Thanksgiving snack ideas are great for lunchboxes or classroom treats.

Chances are you’re always looking for fun snacks to add to your child’s lunchbox. Of course, you don’t want to go all Martha Stewart and spend three hours on one snack. Who has the time or energy for that?

You also don’t want to load your child’s lunchbox up with junk.

Thankfully, you don’t have to do either.

Let’s look at some fun — and easy –Thanksgiving snacks for kids.

Thanksgiving Snacks for Kids

I am not joking when I say that these snacks are so easy to make.

Just bust out the craft box and glue gun and boom! You’ll soon have a bunch of cute Thanksgiving snacks.

You can even make many of these ahead of time. Spend one afternoon putting together your Thanksgiving treats and then pop them in the pantry to save for Thanksgiving.

Best of all, these fun Thanksgiving snacks will actually help get your kids excited about eating healthier snacks. Maybe not as excited about finding chocolate s in their lunchbox, but still excited nonetheless!

Here is What You Will Need

Packaged cheese and cracker sticks
Blue gelatin cups
Orange or peach fruit cups
Banana
Scissors
Low temperature hot glue gun*
Lollipop sticks (or toothpicks, or skewers, but lollipop sticks would be safest)
Black marker
Googly eyes
Black, yellow, orange, red, white and green craft foam

NOTE: To help reduce the chance of the hot glue melting the plastic packaging on the snacks used in the crafts below, I would suggest not applying the hot glue directly to the plastic.Instead, apply the hot glue to the craft foam or googly eyes that you will be adhering to the plastic, and then allow it to cool down for a few seconds before sticking it to the plastic.

Pilgrim Bananas

Supplies:

Scissors
Black, yellow, and white craft foam
Low temperature hot glue gun
Banana
Black marker

Instructions:

Cut out the shapes needed for the pilgrim hat from the black, white, and yellow craft foam. The photo above can be referenced for the various shapes needed.

Next, glue the black brim onto the black Pilgrim hat.

Then, glue on the white hat band as well as the yellow buckle.

Once the hat is completed, use the hot glue gun to affix the Pilgrim hat over the stem of the banana.

Finally, use a black marker add a face to the banana.

Mayflower Jello Cups

Supplies:

White craft foam
Scissors
Lollipop sticks (or toothpicks, or skewers — but lollipop sticks would be the safest)
Blue gelatin cups

Instructions:

Cut a large white triangle with a flattened top out of the white craft foam.

Cut the triangle into three pieces. The pieces need to be thick enough to be threaded onto a stick.

Using scissors, gently poke two holes in the center of each of the three pieces of white craft foam, one at the top and one at the bottom.

Thread the stick through the bottom hole of each piece and then the top. Start with the widest piece of craft foam, and top the stick with the smallest piece.

Poke a hole into the top of the blue Jello container and insert your sail.

Cheese and Cracker Turkeys

Supplies:

Packaged cheese and cracker sticks
Orange and red craft foam
Scissors
Low temperature hot glue gun
Googly eyes

Instructions:

Cut a small diamond shape out of the orange craft foam to form the beak, an “s” shape out of the red craft foam to make a wattle, and 2 thin legs out of the orange craft foam.

Turn the cheese snacks upside down. Using hot glue, attach a pair of googly eyes to the back of the cheese compartment.
Below the eyes, glue the wattle, then the beak on top of it. Bend the diamond shape of the beak in half so the it remains semi-closed when glued.

Lastly, glue the legs on towards the bottom of the cracker compartment.

Pumpkin Fruit Cups

Supplies:

Orange or peach fruit cup
Black marker
Green craft foam
Scissors
Low temperature hot glue gun

Instructions:

Cut out rectangular and leaf shaped pieces of craft foam – these will become the stem and leaf on top of your pumpkin cups.

Turn the fruit cup upside down and glue the stem of the leaf shape to the top of the fruit cup.

Once the leaf is secure, fold the rectangle shape you cut out in half forming a looped stem for your pumpkin. Glue the stem to the top center of the container over the leaf stem.

I hope that you enjoyed these ideas for easy Thanksgiving snacks for kids.

For more easy Thanksgiving treats for kids, check out our Turkey Lollipops, Rice Krispie Turkey Treats and Turkey Cupcakes. All these snacks are very easy to make as well.