Summer is the time of year when it’s especially easy to eat healthy! Fruits and vegetables are in season and readily available. They’re also conveniently portable and make great snacks for your kids’ favorite summer hangout like the park, beach, or pool. Just give your fruits and veggies a good wash and throw them in your beach bag or backpack! Or, try some of these healthy and fun snack ideas for the family on the go this summer:
Fruit Necklaces
Using a yarn needle and elastic cord, your littles can work on their motor skills and make a tasty and fun summer treat. This fun snack can be worn and eaten on the way to the beach or enjoyed right away!
Peanut Butter and Greek Yogurt Fruit Dip
To add a little protein to your kids’ summer fruit diet, a peanut butter yogurt dip goes great with apple slices.
Fruit and Cheese Kabobs
Kids love fruit and cheese and this is a fun way to get them to eat more and it’s easy to bring on summer outings.
Fruit Pops
Simple ingredients and a cool treat to beat the heat this summer, your kids are going to love these homemade fruit pops.
Fresh Fruit Pizza
These fun fruit pizzas are 100% fruit, super refreshing, and the kids will have a blast putting them together!
Watermelon Pops
Watermelon and summer are pretty much synonymous. This simple snack is so easy and so healthy that it will be your new summer go-to.
Veggie Dip Cups
Kids love fruit, but vegetables can sometimes be harder to get them to eat. These fun veggie dip cups will make eating their veggies this summer fun and colorful.
Rainbow Veggie Wraps
This one will have your kids eating ALL THE VEGGIES this summer. With every color of the rainbow represented, you’ll feel good knowing you’re giving your kids something nutritious and they’ll have fun chopping veggies and rolling the wraps.
Veggie Nachos
These all-veggie nachos are so fun, your kids will be begging to make them over and over. With bell peppers as the chips, this snack is both colorful and healthy.
Strawberry Blueberry Frozen Yogurt Bark
This one is easy enough for even the littlest of hands to help with. Fresh or frozen berries will do the trick and this tasty treat will keep your kids happy and cool all summer long.