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80+ Kids favourite after school snack ideas

by Katrina - The Organised Housewife March 1, 2018July 1, 2020
March 1, 2018July 1, 2020

A few weeks ago I shared a post with some healthy after school snack ideas and I asked what your kids enjoy to eat for afternoon tea.  There was such a wonderful response and suggestions given that I thought I should share them with you to help come up with variety for your kiddies.

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

Some of these suggestions listed below may not be the healthiest ideas but there is certainly something for everyone to enjoy.  For some healthy snack ideas for kids and to download a printable list of after school snack ideas for kids visit this page here.

Keep this list handy to use as a reference when creating your weekly shopping list, to help ensure you have some after school snacks ready for the kids to help themselves after school.  And as I mentioned above the kids can use it to help identify what they can make themselves.  I've also created recipe cards for the 5 Quick Ways to Jazz up 2 Minute Noodles for the kids to have as a handy.

Firsty, I love how one mum stepped out her Afternoon Tea snack ideas:

A – almonds
F – fruit kebabs
T – toast and vegemite
E – eggs
R – roll-ups
N – nuts
O – oranges
O – oat cookies
N – noodles

T – thin vegies sticks
E – energy bars
A – apple

SAVOURY AFTER SCHOOL SNACK IDEAS

  • cheese and chive muffins
  • pumpkin scones with a blob of butter
  • homemade sushi
  • 2 Minute noodles
  • zucchini slice
  • nachos – Can of baked beans, and grated cheese, lightly baked under the grill
  • chipolata size pork sausages from Woolworths. Place it on the bread, top with a dash of sauce and grated cheese and microwave for a bit. Instant snack size hotdog!
  • garlic bread with spaghetti left overs blended and scraped over like a fine patté
  • rice cakes with different toppings
  • avocado, tomato and fetta crackers
  • cheese, tomato on crackers
  • smashed avocado and cheese on a cruskit
  • sausage rolls
  • corn chips and salsa
  • 2 ingredient pizza
  • mini scrolls
  • ham + tomato + cheese toastie “Antipasto”!
  • 2 minute noodles + shredded BBQ chicken + sliced shallots + crushed potato crisps over the top
  • rice paper rolls filled with spinach, tuna or chicken, avocado, carrot, cucumber and a little bit of mayonnaise.
  • rice cakes or crackers with ham, cheese and homemade sundried Tomatoes
  • jatz, tomato and cheese
  • homemade cheese and vegemite scrolls
  • Ham and cheese scrolls
  • zucchini bread
  • “piggies in blankets” cocktail Frankfurt wrapped in pastry with sauce
  • cocktail sausages wrapped in cheese slices or bread
  • pita bread home made pizzas
  • crumpets with butter and honey!
  • bacon and egg mini pies and leave in the fridge to be heated up for the week
  • tuna on salada’s
  • good ol’ English muffins with pizza toppings ? – salami, ham, olives, cheese, spinach leaves, tomato paste
  • hard boiled egg
  • noddle omelettes

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

Veggies sticks and dip ideas

  • carrot sticks with hummus dip
  • home made cucumber tzatziki with fruit and vegetable sticks for dipping.
  • veggies sticks and beetroot hummus
  • cherry tomatoes from the vine
  • homemade hummus and peanut butter with celery
  • cream cheese inside celery sticks with sultanas on top
  • homemade guacamole and corn chips
  • capsicum with corn relish dip
  • My kids love some smashed avocado dip with corn chips and carrot sticks.
  • Curry dip with vegetable sticks

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

TASTING PLATES TO SHARE

  • tasting plate of ham, cherry tomatoes, cheese, grapes, sultanas and sakata crackers
  • my boy loves a kids version of a antipasto platter, salami, polony, cheese, crackers and some cut up apple
  • A quick little plate of ham, sliced boiled egg and a bit of fruit!
  • Savoy crackers with Vegemite. Their favourite part is squishing the crackers together to get Vegemite worms.
  • I make a DIY trail mix in big batches and store in the pantry, within easy reach of the kids. I include mini marshmallows, smarties, tiny teddies, dried banana, sultanas, yogurt covered cranberries (or similar), unsalted nuts, mini pretzels, and a cereal type (generally nutrigrain, sultana bran buds, crispix etc). Kids (Mr11 and Mr9) get home from school and grab a plate, run to the pantry and grab a BIG handful of trail mix to have with a Milo or similar. They love it, and it is at the ready whenever they want it. Happy kids, happy Mum ?
  • nachos and home made salsa on cooler days
  • olives, gherkins, cold meats, carrots, cucumber…
  • “Picky Plate.” I use the old Tupperware ‘Serving Centre’ (aka UFO!) & fill it with “brain food” such as sliced fruit, vegetable sticks, cheese cubes or healthy dip, wholegrain crackers or air-popped popcorn plus a treat, like marshmallows or Tiny Teddie
  • pikelets and fruit

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

SWEET

  • scones with cream and jam
  • biscuits
  • cupcakes
  • ANZAC biscuits
  • frozen banana chunks that have been dipped in dark chocolate taste just like choc banana ice cream
  • homemade pikelets with my home made strawberry jam
  • homemade cinnamon scrolls
  • bliss balls

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

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SMOOTHIES

  • Fruit smoothies: Watermelon, frozen mixed berries in equal parts and then some apple black currant juice to thin it out if it needs ( or ice cubes to thicken it up). Mix all in the blender. So refreshing
  • fruit yoghurt smoothie
  • banana smoothie with cinnamon
  • milkshakes
  • frozen fruit and coconut water and they turn out like a slurpee.
  • Mango or banana with dash of vanilla extract, IceCubes & milk all blitzed up
  • Bowl of yoghurt

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

FRUIT

  • slices of apple spread with peanut butter and some choc chips on top, corn thins with peanut butter
  • frozen grapes in the summer
  • we use a cookie cutter made from shapes, such as stars and diamonds, then we cut out watermelon, rock melon and apples, he loves them!! ? We also mix in seasonal grapes and cherries for variety.
  • home made fruit juice icy poles
  • mezze platter after school….cheese, dip, veggie sticks, ham, salami, olives, crackers etc
  • banana and cacao powder frozen into ice cream moulds
  • chilled fruit kebabs on warmer days!
  • sorbet made from pineapple and frozen watermelon
  • spread a banana with peanut butter, then roll it in crushed nuts and freeze
  • I blend frozen mangoes and raspberries together to make ‘ice cream’.
  • strawberries dipped into warmed up Nutella.
  • vanilla yoghurt with fresh berries and a sprinkle of granola on top, sometimes she sneaks a drizzle of maple syrup on top

With the help of my community, I have a variety of after school snack ideas.

SOMETHING FROM THE PANTRY

  • sandwiches: nutella, peanut butter (because they can’t have them at school)
  • cup of soup
  • baked beans
  • tinned spaghetti

Store purchased snacks

  • hot cross buns
  • cheese and bacon roll lightly warmed up in the microwave
  • popcorn
  • chocolate cake or carrot cake

Hope this list helps you with some ideas to feed your kids after school

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Polly March 2, 2018 - 2:03 PM

Hi, Katrina
Hope you can help me, I have a plastic coated Bathtub and foldable glass shower door on top of it, I am having a bad time cleaning the dirt of it, i want to know if you or someone out have good solutions to getting the dirt out of it, I have also had building work going on next door to me that has turned my toilet lid orange with the dust.

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Katrina - The Organised Housewife March 6, 2018 - 1:22 PM

Hi Polly, These tips here may help you with the bath https://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/cleaning-2/how-to-clean-a-bathtub/

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