Make the holidays extra magical with these cute Christmas treats for kids!

From reindeer brownies to snowman cookies and candy cane snacks, these festive sweets are as fun to make as they are to eat.

These adorable treats will spread holiday cheer and keep little hands busy in the best way.

Rudolph Celery Sticks (Peanut Butter Reindeer)

Yield: 12 sticks • Time: 15 minutes • No-bake

Ingredients

• 6 large celery stalks, cut into 12 four-inch pieces
• ¾ cup peanut butter (or sunflower butter for nut-free)
• 24 candy eyes
• 12 mini pretzels, split to make “antlers”
• 11 brown + 1 red M&M’s for noses

Directions

1. Fill each celery piece with a spoonful of peanut butter.
2. Press two candy eyes near the top of each stick.
3. Break mini pretzels into antler shapes and nestle into the peanut butter at the “head.”
4. Add noses with M&M’s—use one red candy for Rudolph. Serve immediately or chill.

Fun Idea: Line them up on a white platter for a reindeer “herd” moment.

Reindeer Brownies

Yield: 12 brownies • Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

• One 18–19 oz box brownie mix + called-for eggs/oil
• 24 candy eyes
• 12 red or brown M&M’s
• 24 mini pretzels

Directions

1. Bake brownies in a 9×13-inch pan; cool and cut into 12 rectangles.
2. Press two pretzels at the top of each for antlers.
3. Attach candy eyes and an M&M’s nose by dotting melted chocolate or frosting as glue.
4. Let set 10 minutes.

Triangle Reindeer Sandwiches (Savory Option)

Yield: 8 sandwiches • Time: 15 minutes • Nut-free option shown

Ingredients

• 16 slices soft sandwich bread
• ½ cup cream cheese or peanut butter
• 16 mini pretzels
• 8 maraschino cherries (halved) or red M&M’s
• 16 raisins for eyes

Directions

1. Spread cream cheese or peanut butter on 8 slices; top with remaining bread.
2. Cut each sandwich diagonally to make triangles.
3. Slide two pretzels into the wide side as antlers.
4. Add a cherry nose and raisin eyes.

Snowman Snack Cups

Yield: 10 cups • Time: 10 minutes • No-bake

Ingredients

• 10 clear plastic cups
• 8–9 cups cheese puffs/pirate’s booty
• 1 black permanent marker
• 1 orange marker

Directions

1. Draw eyes, a carrot nose, and a dotted smile on each cup with markers.
2. Fill with cheese puffs. Done!

Banana Snowman Skewers

Yield: 8 skewers • Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 5 ripe bananas
• 8 strawberries, hulled
• 8 green seedless grapes
• 32 mini chocolate chips
• 8 tiny bits of orange candy for noses
• 8 wooden skewers

Directions

1. Slice bananas into 24 rounds (3 per snowman).
2. Thread three banana rounds onto each skewer.
3. Add a hulled strawberry and a grape “pom-pom.”
4. Press mini chocolate chips for eyes/buttons and a speck of orange candy for a nose.

String Cheese Snowmen (Packable Snack)

Yield: 12 • Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 individually wrapped string cheeses
• Sharpies (black + orange)
• 12 short pieces of red ribbon

Directions

1. Draw eyes, carrot nose, and coal buttons on each string cheese wrapper with Sharpies.
2. Tie a ribbon scarf around the middle.

Powdered Donut Snowmen on a Stick

Yield: 8 skewers • Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 24 mini powdered donuts
• 8 orange M&M’s or Sixlets (noses)
• 32 mini chocolate chips (eyes/buttons)
• 8 mini peanut butter cups (hats)
• 8 narrow red licorice laces (scarves)
• 8 wooden skewers

Directions

1. Skewer three donuts on each skewer.
2. Add a peanut butter cup hat.
3. Press chocolate chips for eyes/buttons and stick on an orange candy nose.
4. Tie a licorice scarf.

Strawberry–Banana Santa Hats

Yield: 24 bites • Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 large strawberries, halved
• 2 large bananas, sliced into 12 rounds each
• 24 mini marshmallows
• Toothpicks or short cocktail picks

Directions

1. Place banana slices on a platter.
2. Top with strawberry halves (point up).
3. Secure with picks and crown each with a mini marshmallow.

Grinch Fruit Kabobs

Yield: 12 kabobs • Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 green grapes
• 2 large bananas, cut into 12 slices
• 12 small strawberries, hulled
• 12 mini marshmallows
• 12 toothpicks

Directions

1. On each toothpick stack grape, banana, strawberry, marshmallow.
2. Serve chilled.

Christmas Tree Rice Krispies Treats

Yield: 16 trees • Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoon butter
• 10 oz mini marshmallows
• 6 cups crispy rice cereal
• Green gel food coloring
• 2 tablespoon sprinkles
• 8 small candy canes, halved for “trunks”

Directions

1. Melt butter; stir in marshmallows until smooth. Tint with green coloring.
2. Stir in cereal and press into a parchment-lined 9×13 pan.
3. Cool 15 minutes; cut into triangles.
4. Insert candy cane halves as trunks and decorate with sprinkles.

Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies

Yield: 24 cookies • Time: 1 hour (uses mix)

Ingredients

• 17.5 oz pouch sugar cookie mix + called-for items
• 24 large marshmallows
• 2 cups powdered sugar + 2–3 tablespoon milk for icing
• Black gel + orange gel

Directions

1. Bake cookies; cool.
2. Microwave marshmallows 5–7 seconds until slightly slumped.
3. Whisk powdered sugar and milk for thick icing; spoon onto cookies for puddles.
4. Set a soft marshmallow head and draw faces/arms with gels.

Santa Belly Oreos (No-Bake Dipped Cookies)

Yield: 24 • Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 24 Oreo cookies
• 12 oz red candy melts
• 2 oz black candy melts
• 24 gold sprinkles/pearls

Directions

1. Melt red candy melts; dip Oreos fully.
2. Pipe black melts belt across the middle; add a gold sprinkle buckle.
3. Let set on parchment.

Christmas Light Sugar Cookies

Yield: 24 • Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 24 baked sugar cookies (store-bought or homemade)
• 2 cups royal icing, white
• 1 tube black piping gel
• ½ cup mini M&M’s

Directions

1. Flood cookies with white royal icing; dry 20 minutes.
2. Pipe a loopy cord with black gel.
3. Press colorful mini M&M’s along the cord as lights.

Christmas Tree Brownies (Triangle Trees)

Yield: 16 trees • Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

• One 9×13 pan of baked brownies
• Green frosting + sprinkles
• 8 small candy canes, broken in half (tree trunks)

Directions

1. Cut cooled brownies into 16 triangles.
2. Pipe garland with green frosting; add sprinkles.
3. Insert candy cane halves as trunks.

Hot Cocoa Stirring Spoons

Yield: 20 spoons • Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 oz chocolate chips
• 20 sturdy plastic or wooden spoons
• ½ cup crushed peppermint candies
• ½ cup mini marshmallows

Directions

1. Melt chocolate chips; dip bowls of spoons.
2. Top with peppermint and marshmallows; let harden. Stir into hot milk.

Classic Peppermint Bark

Yield: 1 sheet (about 24 pieces) • Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 8 oz semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
• 12 oz white chocolate
• ½ teaspoon peppermint extract
• ½ cup crushed candy canes

Directions

1. Melt semi-sweet; spread thin on lined sheet; chill 10 minutes.
2. Melt white chocolate; stir in peppermint extract.
3. Spread over dark layer; sprinkle candy canes. Chill; break.

Reindeer Chow (Christmas Muddy Buddies)

Yield: 12 cups • Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 9 cups Rice Chex cereal
• 1 cup semi-sweet chips
• ½ cup peanut butter
• ¼ cup butter
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 1 cup red/green M&M’s
• 1 cup mini pretzels, broken

Directions

1. In microwave, melt chips with peanut butter and butter.
2. Toss with Chex; coat in powdered sugar inside a bag.
3. Fold in holiday M&M’s and pretzels.

Polar Bear Marshmallow Cocoa Toppers

Yield: 12 • Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 jumbo marshmallows
• 24 mini marshmallows (ears)
• 24 candy eyes
• 12 white candy melts (snouts)
• Black gel icing

Directions

1. Use a dab of melted candy melts to attach mini marshmallow ears on top of a jumbo marshmallow.
2. Add candy eyes and a melt as snout; dot nose with black gel. Float on cocoa.

Cornflake Wreath Cookies

Yield: 24 wreaths • Time: 30 minutes • No-bake

Ingredients

• ½ cup unsalted butter
• 30 large marshmallows (10 oz)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Green food coloring
• 4 cups cornflakes cereal
• Red cinnamon imperials or mini M&M’s

Directions

1. Melt butter; add marshmallows and vanilla; tint green.
2. Fold in cornflakes.
3. Spoon circles onto parchment and decorate with red candies.

Candy Cane Pretzel Rods

Yield: 20 rods • Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 20 pretzel rods
• 12 oz white candy melts
• ½ cup crushed candy canes

Directions

1. Dip pretzel rods into melted white melts.
2. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes; let set.

Penguin Oreo Pops

Yield: 20 pops • Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 20 double-stuff Oreos
• 12 oz black candy melts
• 4 oz white candy melts
• 40 candy eyes
• 20 small orange sprinkles (beaks)
• 20 lollipop sticks

Directions

1. Insert sticks into Oreos.
2. Dip in black melts; let set.
3. Spoon a white oval belly with white melts.
4. Add eyes and an orange sprinkle beak.

North Pole Cupcake Cones

Yield: 24 cones • Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix + called-for items
• 24 flat-bottom ice cream cones
• 3 cups white buttercream frosting
• 24 mini candy canes
• Red/white sprinkles

Directions

1. Stand cones in a muffin pan; fill halfway with cake batter; bake per box; cool.
2. Swirl buttercream to look like snow.
3. Insert a mini candy cane “pole” and add sprinkles.

Snowflake Pretzels

Yield: 60 mini pretzels • Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 oz white candy melts
• 12 oz mini pretzels
• White/blue sugar crystals

Directions

1. Dip pretzels in white melts.
2. Sprinkle with sugar crystals; dry.

Santa Hat Cupcakes

Yield: 24 • Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 1 box chocolate cake mix + called-for items
• 4 cups buttercream, tinted red and white
• 24 fresh strawberries, hulled

Directions

1. Bake cupcakes; cool.
2. Pipe a white ring of buttercream.
3. Set a strawberry on top; pipe a red hat and white pom-pom.

Quick Gingerbread Men (Soft & Spiced)

Yield: 24 cookies • Time: 1 hour (includes chill)

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon cloves
• White royal icing for decorating

Directions

1. Beat butter and brown sugar. Mix in molasses and egg.
2. Whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and spices (ginger, cinnamon, cloves); add to wet mixture.
3. Chill dough 30 minutes. Roll ¼-inch thick; cut with gingerbread man cutters (grab some here).
4. Bake at 350°F for 8–10 minutes; cool and decorate with royal icing.

More Adorable Ideas (Quick List)

If you need a few extra festive fillers, these also rock for kids’ parties:

• Reindeer Graham Crackers: Grahams, peanut butter, pretzels, candy eyes, red candies.
• Elf Hat Bugles: Bugles dipped in green melts with sprinkles.
• Snowman Yogurt Parfaits: Vanilla yogurt, mini chips, orange sprinkles.

Christmas Treats

From fruity snowmen to no-bake reindeer and classic gingerbread, these treats are designed for maximum kid joy with minimal holiday stress.

Save this list for class parties, family movie nights, or cookie swaps.

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