Healthy School Snack Ideas

School is a place where students learn academic skills like reading and math, and life skills like healthy eating, friendship, sharing, and taking turns.  When families provide snacks for children at school, it is an opportunity to encourage healthy eating and for children to practice important social skills.  Below are examples of fun, nutritious snacks for families to prepare for school snack.

Please keep the following in mind:

• Prepackaged or store-bought food are required (we cannot accept homemade items).
• Regular-sized packages of crackers, cereal, yogurt, etc, can be divided by teachers at school or you may choose to send individually packaged items.
• It would be helpful to send any paper products such as bowls, cups, and spoons that will be needed to serve the snack.
• We have 14 students in our class.
• Please choose one item from the fruits/vegetables list AND one item from the grain/protein/dairy list.
• Please send peanut-free snacks so that all students can enjoy the snack brought by your child.  We do have peanut allergies in our class this year.

 

Fruit/Vegetable Ideas Grain/Protein/Dairy Ideas

* store bought fruit tray * crackers/pretzels/snack mix

* pre-packaged apple slices * cereal

* applesauce pouches * granola bars/cereal bars

* frozen 100% fruit popsicles * graham crackers/teddy grahams

* 100% fruit juice * trail mix

* fresh fruit such as apples, bananas * muffins

   grapes, pears, watermelon, blueberries,  * bread (pumpkin, banana, etc.)

   strawberries                 * rolls/bagels 

* clementine/cuties * deli meat

* carrot sticks * whole grain tortilla chips

* snap peas * veggie sticks

* cucumbers * yogurt cups/tubes - can be frozen

* store bought veggie tray * string cheese

* cheese cubes/slices

* milk

* cottage cheese

* hummus