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.
- 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.
Fruit/Vegetable Ideas Grain/Protein/Dairy Ideas
* store bought fruit tray * crackers/pretzels
* pre-packaged apple slices * cereal
* applesauce pouches * granola bars/cereal bars
* fruit cups * tortilla chips
* 100% fruit juice * trail mix
* fresh fruit such as apples, bananas * cheese cubes/slices/string cheese
grapes, pears, watermelon, blueberries, * bread (pumpkin, banana, etc.)
strawberries * mini bagels
* clementine/cuties * cottage cheese
* carrot sticks (w/ranch dressing) *milk
* snap peas * veggie sticks
* store bought veggie tray * yogurt cups/tubes
* salsa * hummus
Birthday/Special day - We do not allow birthday treats at school but on your special day you may choose to stray from these guidelines within reason (no cupcakes or frosted cookies please). You may also choose to follow the above guidelines.
Special snack ideas - individual ice cream cups with fruit, fruit popsicles, pudding with fruit or crackers, teddy grahams/graham crackers with milk, fruit snacks with crackers, mini muffins with milk or fruit,