Make snack-time fun with our Banana-Graham Butterfly Snacks! It’s a healthy snack to accompany a butterfly craft or activity or to serve at a kids spring party.
We all know that kids love snacks that are fun. Even the pickiest eaters are more likely to try a new food, or a food that they don’t like if it’s served in a fun shape.
If your child isn’t big on wholesome snacks, try making butterflies with a banana and graham crackers. Add a little peanut butter and decorate the wings with fruit! They’re tasty, they’re cute, and they provide a healthy serving of fruit and protein for your child.
I’m sharing two versions of our butterfly snack with you today. Feel free to use whatever you like to decorate your butterfly snack. Some suggestions are:
- grapes
- blueberries
- raisins
- chocolate chips
- dried cranberries
- nuts
Banana-Graham Butterfly Ingredients
- one banana
- 2 graham crackers
- 2 chocolate chip “eyes”
- smarties or m&m’s, or sliced fruit, nuts, coconut, raisins, dried cranberries, blueberries etc.
- peanut butter
- antennae: toothpicks, straws, or coffee stir sticks
Time needed: 5 minutes
How to Make Banana Graham Butterfly Snack
- Prepare Banana
Peel a banana and cut a slit into each side. With the tip of your knife, scoop out a small amount of the fruit. Â Set the banana aside for a moment.
- Make Wings
Spread a small amount of peanut butter on each graham cracker, and top with fruit, nuts or sweets.
- Add Wings to Banana
Gently press each cracker into the slits that you’ve cut into the banana.
- Add Eyes and Antennae
With a tiny amount of peanut butter, attach the chocolate chip eyes to the front of the banana butterfly. Press antennae into top of the banana.
Assemble your butterfly snacks:
Enjoy!!
Get my latest e-book: Fizz, Pop, Bang! Playful Science and Math Activities
40 hands-on, learning activities for kids ages 3-8. Recipes, experiments, art projects, printables and play ideas with links to 80 activities not featured in the book.
Download your copy today for just 9.99
Follow the Hooligans on Facebook
Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
Â
Joy
Love this idea. Since it’s difficult to get my four year old granddaughter to eat bananas, I think I’ll coat the banana in chocolate. 🙂 I’m going to make this on Monday when I babysit my granddaughters. Thank you for sharing!! I love tons of your crafts and my Granddaughter is very artistic, like her Gran’ma! LOL
happyhooligans
Great idea to coat it in chocolate, Joy. Oh yum! That will be delicious! So glad you’re loving our ideas here! 🙂
Carrie
Oh, these are so cute!! We will have to remember this for our butterfly party we are planning.
katepickle
oooh YUM!!!!
Debbie Henry
Oh this is going to be snack on Monday for the kidlets for sure. I also tried out your tissue paper butterflies last weekend with my granddaughter. She loved them. I just love your blog, and read it as often as I can. There is so much to catch up on. I hope you don’t mind I’ve shared it with my readers. I send everyone I know here.
happyhooligans
Thanks so much for sharing, Debbie! I’m so glad you and your granddaughter had fun with the butterflies! And I’m thrilled that you love all the rest of our activities too! Those words are music to my ears! 🙂
Magdalena - Canadiandishes.com
Dear Jackie,
I’d like to invite you to join the site Canadiandishes.com where users can search through hundreds of thousands of recipes from Canadian food sites and blogs.
We noticed that you have a great number of tasty recipes on your blog and would like to suggest you have a look at our Top Food Blogs.
If you want to add your food blog to the list and have your recipes indexed on Canadiandishes.com all you have to do is follow the instructions here: http://www.canadiandishes.com/add-your-food-blog.
I hope you will join us, your recipes reach even more users and your food blog will be up there in the top!
Warm regards 🙂
happyhooligans
Thanks, Magdalena! I’ll be sure to check it out!