Animal Theme Food Ideas for Kids

Anytime you can create something fun with your food kids will eat it up. Try giving the kids ideas or a picture and let them make their own creations. Here are some of our favorite animal theme food ideas.

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Animal Theme Food Ideas

You can buy candy eyeballs and use them all over your food just like in these meatballs. Just add a carrot piece for a beak.

Birds

These are easy to make with a few ingredients. Apple leaves and branches, strawberry wings and beaks, blueberry nose and body cut out of bread.

Also try edible bird nests.

Bunny Rabbits

Cutting out shapes of animals is an easy way to create fun food. Try this bunny sandwich idea or more Bunny Theme Snacks here

Spiders

Create some edible Spiders


Adding olive slices and pepper slices for legs you can create your own spider theme pizza.


Or make a Spider Cake

Dinosaur

Dinosaur Ideas- Create dinosaurs out of vegetables makes a fun twist in a vegetable tray.

Owl

Owl Food Ideas- See these fun owl ideas for your kids snacks...

Farm Animals

See our Farm Animal Ideas. Here are two farm theme sandwich ideas also...

Make a cottage cheese sheep snack.

Turn a simple boiled egg into chicks. See a few variations on our farm theme page.


Create a smoothie into a fun work of art with smoothie bowls.

Snakes

Snake theme ideas can be easy as this simple tomato mozzarella "salad" snack or see more snake theme ideas here. 

Penguins

Penguins- Create fun penguin theme snacks.

Sea Creatures

Under the Sea Snack Theme- With a sea theme you can create many fun ideas for animal snacks like these...

Puppy Dogs

Decorated cake pops- learn how to make cake pops and design some fun animal shapes.


Puppy Cupcakes

Cats

Cat Cookies and Cupcakes

Cat Eyes Non Reader Recipe

Turkeys

Turkey Shaped Fun Snacks like a relish tray, turkey bread, turkey shaped apple and more..

Reindeer

Reindeer Theme ideas

Frogs

Frog Apples


Frog Cupcakes

Turtle

Turtle Shaped bread

Ladybug and Insects

See our insect theme food ideas here.

Snails

Snail Bread

Bears

Bear Theme Food Ideas

Mice

Make mice cookies


Create little chocolate mice.


Or a mice cheese and crackers snack.

Animal Toasts

Create a boring piece of toast into a fun snack with these ideas/ Use Nutella, peanut butter or cream cheese as the spread. Then add fruit to make animal faces.

Animals on a Log

Make a twist on the ants on a log idea by using animal crackers and adding "food" for the animals.

Creative Food Art Bundle

Share your animal theme food below.

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