Valentine’s Day Recipes for Kids
Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to try some new recipes and activities with little chefs. We’ve pulled together some of our favourite valentine’s day recipes to make with your little ones. Be prepared to make good use of your heart shaped cooking cutters!
The following recipes will be prefect for your little ones to prepare and share with grandparents, family or friends – they’re sure to be impressed by such thoughtful valentine’s gifts that have been made with love.
Fruity Frozen Yoghurt Hearts
We adore these tasty frozen yoghurt bites, a perfect valentine’s day recipe as a snack or pudding. They’re so simple to make and only require two ingredients (yes really!).
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 157KB)
Hearty Oatmeal Cookies
Share a piece of your heart with these delicious cookies! They are so easy to prepare and make for a tasty pudding. Try serving with yoghurt and strawberries! Little ones will love creating the heart shapes with their cookie cutters or moulding them with their hands!
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 166KB)
Strawberry Breakfast Muffins
We love these cute breakfast muffins as they’re full of flavour! Your little ones will have lots of fun mixing all the ingredients together and filling the paper cases. They are the perfect valentine’s recipe to share with loved ones!
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 173KB)
Fabulous Fruity Heart
This fabulous fruity heart is another easy one to assemble. It’s the perfect snack to serve in an early years setting or at home for the whole family to enjoy!
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 331KB)
Hearty Toast
- Toast topped with your favourite spreads, like peanut butter, poached eggs and avocado
- Overnight oats with mixed berries – check out our recipes here (opens in new tab)
- Get your little ones practising their pancake flipping and decorate with yoghurt and berries. You can find some of our favourite pancake recipes here (opens in new tab)
Tasty Tomato Tulips
This is such a pretty snack recipe. It’s a little bit more fiddly this one, so don’t worry if it doesn’t turn out perfectly!
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 423KB)
Valentine’s Fruity Kebabs
This is a really simple recipe, a great one to incorporate at snack time!
All you need is strawberries, watermelon, cookie cutters and wooden kebab sticks. Simply cut heart shapes out of the fruit and thread them onto the kebabs!
Before serving: ensure the size, shape and texture is suitable for young children.
Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
These are super tasty and easy to make!
Click here to download the Strawberry Cheesecake Bites recipe card (PDF, 314KB)
Berry Bread
This bread is a twist on our banana bread where we’ve swapped out most of the bananas for mixed berries. This bread is really easy to make and we love the sweet taste of the berries.
Download your free recipe card here (PDF, 337KB)
All our recipes are inline with the Eat Better Start Better (opens in new tab) food and drink guidelines and so are perfect for Early Year’s settings and great to make at home as a family too!