Children are very special people. They:

• they want to communicate and play more than they want to eat
• they won't pretend if they don't like it
• they like sweets more
• they like food that looks like a fairy tale.

Based on these criteria, we will create a menu for the child’s birthday.

Well, of course, no adult would feed his child sweets first. Of course, the first thing should be something satisfying and healthy. But there are also requirements here:

1. minimum fried
2. minimum spices and heat
3. only quality products.

Children will not sit at the table for a long time and serve themselves and their neighbor-friend salads. Therefore, the main food that will be served to children before their fun games and activities must be PORTIONED!

Pizza for kids

The very first and most win-win option is pizza. Large and colorful pizza can be cut into a variety of slices. You need to place it in the center of the table and give each of the children the piece that he likes the most. Most best recipe– vegetarian pizza:

1. with quality cheese;
2. without mayonnaise;
3. bright vegetables.

Plus, if you have the talent of a mass entertainer, you can spend part of the holiday making pizza TOGETHER with your children. It’s okay that they might get dirty... Warn in advance the parents of children who will come to visit your child. This will be an unforgettable master class.

• Prepare the dough in advance and place it on a baking sheet, divide it into sectors (or squares) according to the number of children;
• Place different fillings in containers. The filling should be universal. For example: chopped tomatoes, canned corn, thinly sliced Bell pepper, pieces of white cheese, cubes of boiled potatoes, pieces of sausage..... There should be at least 7-8 types so that the child has plenty to choose from;
• invite each child to fill their piece with a filling of their choice;
• bake in the oven and serve.

Children will eat something made with their own hands with great pleasure!

Or you can make mini pizza in the shape of flowers. Very beautiful and due to the fact that they are small - just for kids. The recipe is here at the link ().

“Pizza” from pasta

What else do children love? Pasta. You can make a mini-pizza from pasta. Of course, this is just a name, but in reality the dish is similar to pizza due to the cheese and vegetables. How to cook:

You need to do this quickly so that you place it on the hot pasta so that the cheese can melt and combine the dish into one.

What ingredients can be used:

• cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers
• sausage circles
• boiled or fried mushrooms
• corn and pickled cucumbers….

Sandwiches - boats

Just a great idea for kids. Cucumbers are cut into 2 halves. Using a teaspoon, scoop out the pulp from the half and fill it with any salad. We cut another cucumber with a special knife into thin slices. Having pricked them onto a skewer or toothpick, we insert our cucumber sail into the “hold” filled with lettuce. Not only very tasty, but also very beautiful and very childish.

2nd version of boats: bread (dense) + butter + cheese + red fish (not salted) and sails made of cheese again!

You can also make a children's cheese and sausage plate. I would just take the choice of sausage and cheese for children more seriously, in terms of quality and naturalness. And this is definitely for not very young children.

Sausages with garnish

It’s better to put not the usual side dish, but either:

• loved by children;
• boiled corn and canned green peas;
• french fries.
• colored spaghetti.

But the sausages need to be presented in an interesting and original way. After all, it's a holiday. You can do this just like in the photo! It is important to buy the freshest and highest quality sausages.

Children's sandwiches

There are very, very many variations here. The main thing is to show your imagination and put your hands into it, because everything beautiful requires time and careful execution. I offer you sandwiches that will definitely attract the attention of kids. – a buffet so that children can freely run up and take the food they like when they get hungry fun competitions and games.

Ladybug sandwich: bread, cherry tomatoes, olives, lettuce and delicious pasta spread spread on bread. The cow's eyes are carved from black olives.

Fresh mini-sandwiches on a cucumber slice are very good. Although such canapes are more likely to be suitable for teenagers, and not for very small children (they will drop)))

But these little ones would be more suitable for a girl’s birthday – hearts are their theme!

Vegetables - paravozki for a buffet table

A very original idea for slicing vegetables into sweet pepper trains. It's easy to prepare. Children, of course, will not eat the paravozki themselves, but they can then be safely used for cooking or.

Stuffed quail eggs - fly agarics

Another dish made from tomatoes and quail eggs. If “fly agarics” can be made from ordinary eggs on a regular table, children should be served quail eggs. Firstly, it is healthier, it dietary product and it fits true to size.

Hedgehog-shaped puree

This is not to say very tasty - cooked well with milk and good butter - it is always tasty. Presentation is important here. It's interesting, it's funny and of course you want to eat it!

Layered salad with mice

But very good idea for decorating puff salad. Layered salad this is a salad that is laid out in layers)))) You can also lay out the Mimosa salad and the popular Herring under a fur coat (if small children do not have herring and with sour cream). But if you put such beautiful mice in a salad, children will definitely love it!

Vegetables baked in a pot

It's easy to prepare. You can cook it with pieces of chicken, or you can make this dish a dietary one. But again, you can design it in an original way. Form an octopus from the dough and cover the baking trays in the oven. It is better to buy small pot molds, because... Children usually don’t eat a lot (at least not one thing). This design will be a godsend if your holiday is based on the theme of “Pirates” and “Sea”.

Here are the same vegetables baked with creamy cheese sauce, but already decorated with fresh vegetables. Here, of course, you need at least a little bit of artistic talent. The ready-made hot dish is decorated with fresh vegetables and herbs.

“Original cheese plate”

You can make several of these Christmas trees using different cheeses. But since small children do not like to cook cheese, it is necessary either on small saucers or for already teenage children.

Tartlets with filling

There are a lot delicious fillings for tartlets. You can make sweet and non-sweet ones. The main thing is that the dough in the tartlets is tender and soft, so that it simply melts in your mouth.

Homemade ice cream for a child's birthday

Fruits for the children's table

Well, and of course fruit. I think this is the most important part of the table. After all, children love sweets, but a fresh pear or banana is much healthier than even the most skillfully prepared cake. Fruits are designed for children and will be eaten with great appetite.

Decorated in the form of little pirates.

A red scarf is thin pieces of fabric or paper napkin with a corresponding pattern.

All other pirate attributes are drawn with a regular marker. There is no need to be afraid - after all, children do not eat the peel, but you can definitely put on a whole performance.

The “Pirate” theme is usually the easiest to design and come up with different ideas. Here you can also hold competitions for picking a banana from a rope, imagining that there has been a shipwreck and you need to get food on an island where palm trees grow.

You can also organize a competition:

• look for treasures in a bowl of flour;
• write a message of salvation on scattered semolina with your fingers (children really like this)…

Another gorgeous sweet for children: in the shape of a butterfly. A butterfly is cut out from any sponge cake (you can even buy it), cream is applied on top and a wide variety of fruits are laid out. It looks very bright and attractive!

In the renewed life of young mothers, it also happens that the first solid table for young guests must be prepared for the youngest children, whose needs are still far from those of adults. A children's birthday menu for children under 3 years old can be such a test for a woman's intelligence, so we decided to write a cheat sheet on this topic. We will discuss the characteristics of children and offer recipes that will not harm even those children who are definitely not ready to accept dishes from the common table.

So, what should you consider to avoid harming children aged about 3 years?

• Remember about allergies! We exclude highly allergenic foods from the menu (honey, citrus fruits, strawberries, Exotic fruits and so on.).
• We avoid heavy foods, i.e. we exclude the so-called “adult foods” - smoked meats, carbonated drinks, eggplants, mushrooms, poorly cooked rice, millet, white cabbage, unsoaked beans, peas, etc.

This is great if your baby has few dietary restrictions. If he quickly and painlessly switches from a children's menu to an adult one, is not prone to intestinal disorders, recovers regularly and wields a fork perfectly.

However, a birthday is an occasion when different children should feel comfortable in your home. And this difference will concern not only behavior at a party or capricious refusal of new food for reasons inexplicable to you.

In such young children, the difference primarily lies in the degree of maturity of the digestive tract, in the feeding habits at home and in the level of development of household skills. Among them is the level of independent use of a spoon, fork and cup.

Therefore, it makes sense to offer carefully thought-out dishes to young guests.

The best approach is knowledge individual characteristics each invited child. This removes all problems. And if among the future guests there are children with allergies to eggs or milk, then our task is to offer them dietary meatballs.

At the same time, do not forget about the baby who cannot eat a pear or watermelon, cut for everyone. Buy sweet apples, etc. for him.

• Food ingredients and their general form should be well known to children.
• The names of the dishes should also be familiar.
• Methods for eating all dishes on the children's menu should be limited to one cutlery - a spoon.
• The ideal option is to be able to take the food with your hand.
• Most dishes should be served in portions.

Moving on to the menu, we will not divide it into the usual three “appetizer - main course - dessert”. We’ll just try to choose 1 savory dish and 1 dessert dish from the proposed recipes.

You will find this recipe in the article about. By the way, it also describes a profitable buffet serving for a child’s birthday, because it does not require cutlery.

Take a closer look at the ideas - keeping in mind the very young age of the invitees!

Curd and banana pancakes

Ingredients

• Flour - 200 gr;
• Cottage cheese - 300 gr;
• Milk - 150 ml;
• Eggs - 4 pcs.;
• Bananas – 3 pcs (large and ripe);
• Juice and zest of half a lemon or the same amount of apple juice;
• Baking powder – 1 tsp;
• Soda – 1 pinch;
• Salt, vegetable oil, powdered sugar.

How to cook

1. In a blender, carefully mix the cottage cheese with milk.
2. Separate the whites from the yolks. Add the yolks to the curd mixture and beat again until smooth.
3. Sift the flour, add salt, soda and baking powder.
4. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the curd mixture, beating thoroughly at low speed until smooth.
5. Peel the bananas and mash them into puree. Pour in lemon (or apple) juice.
6. Beat the whites into a fluffy foam. In three additions, add 1/3 of the whites to the banana curd dough, carefully mixing from bottom to top with a spatula.
7. Heat a wide frying pan over medium heat and grease with oil.
8. Place small pancakes with a spoon at a distance from each other. Bake covered for about 15-2 minutes.
9. Turn over the set pancakes and bake for the same time without a lid.
10. Place on a towel. When the excess oil is absorbed, place it on 2 dishes in one layer and decorate.

The simplest version of topping is powdered sugar through a sieve. It’s more difficult to “draw” faces from available products.

Curd pancakes with apple

Ingredients

• Cottage cheese – 200 g;
• Eggs – 3 pcs.;
• Sugar – 2 tbsp;
• Apple – 1 piece (large, sweet and sour variety);
• Flour – ¾ cup;
• Milk – 2/3 cup;
• Baking powder – 1 tsp;
• Salt – 1 whisper;
• Vegetable oil for frying.

How to cook

1. Wash and peel the apple, removing the core. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
2. Grind cottage cheese, egg, sugar and milk until homogeneous.
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt to the curd mixture.
4. Add the apple, stirring thoroughly.
5. Bake the pancakes in a heated frying pan, greased with oil.
6. Grease the pan with oil and bake the pancakes.

Serve the pancakes sprinkled with powdered sugar or lightly brushed with jam.

Choose jam from the components of your strip.

Pancakes-hares

Ingredients for 2 servings

Decor

1 banana, a couple of mint leaves, 2 nuts (peanuts), 100 ml of curd Activia without additives, a little heavy cream (35%).

Dough

120 ml milk, 45 g flour, 1 yolk, 5 g sugar, 25 g vegetable oil, a pinch of salt.

How to cook

1. Prepare the dough: sift the flour, mix with salt, sugar, yolk and butter. Add milk and beat. Then strain through a large sieve.
2. Grease a frying pan with vegetable oil and heat over medium heat.
3. Pour the dough into the pan using a ladle and turn the pan so that the dough completely covers the bottom.
4. Fry the pancake until the edges begin to acquire brown tint. This takes about 2 minutes. Lift the pancake with a spatula and turn it over. Fry the second side for 1-2 minutes.
5. Cut out 4 circles from the pancakes.
6. Coat 2 mugs with cold Activia curd. Place one circle on top of each.
7. Decorate the serving: make ears from thinly sliced ​​bananas.

Having placed the cream in a pastry bag, we draw a nose, eyes and mustache for the hares.

• Pink color = cream + beet juice.
• Chocolate = cream + cocoa.
• We make teeth from nuts.
• Decorate with mint leaves.

Meatballs or steamed cutlets: crabs, hedgehogs and fish

Let's prepare meatballs from light varieties of meat, preferably poultry. And when serving, we will complement them with beautifully laid out mashed potatoes. For this we use a pastry bag.

A universal option is to cut the meatballs into pieces accessible to children, placing them in a circle along the edges of the mound of mashed potatoes.

If you are confident in the children’s ability to break the meatballs with a spoon or can cut the dish for each child, then serve the meat in a playful design - see the article on birthdays for children from 3 to 5 years old.

Porridge in game serving

If you choose porridge as a side dish for meat, you can play with it in different ways. The easiest way is to create the faces of animals known to children and the funny faces of people.

Here are some examples:

We will need

• Flour - 100 g;
• Potatoes - 600 g;
• Semolina – 50 g.

For vegetable filling

• Zucchini - 50 g;
• Cauliflower – 50 g;
• Carrots - 50 g;
• Onion - 30 g;
• Dill, parsley - to taste;
• Vegetable oil, salt, pepper.

How to cook

1. Wash the potatoes, peel and boil.
2. We cut cabbage, carrots, zucchini and onions. Fry and cool. You can add greens. This is the filling. The filling can also be meat or cheese.
3. Grate the cooled potatoes, add semolina, flour, salt, pepper, water and grind in a blender until homogeneous. The mass should not be thick.
4. We form flat cakes of approximately 100 g. Place a little filling in the middle and carefully form an oblong patty.

Fry in a heated frying pan, greased with oil, pre-breaded in breadcrumbs. Remove the zrazy from the heat as soon as a golden brown crust forms.

Ingredients (for about 6 servings)

• Chicken fillet – 2 pcs.;
• Zucchini - 1 medium size;
• Broccoli – 150 g;
• Onion – 1 medium size;
• Milk – 1 glass;
• Eggs – 2 pcs.;
• Pistachios – 1 tbsp;
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
• Salt, a couple of sprigs of parsley.

How to cook

1. Separate the whites from the yolks.
2. Cut the zucchini and broccoli into small cubes.
3. Blend in a blender until smooth chicken fillet, onions and pistachios.
4. Add warm milk, vegetable oil, egg yolks, salt and parsley to the mixture. Mix thoroughly.
5. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form and add to the prepared mixture. chopped meat. Add chopped vegetables.
6. We post it in silicone molds for muffins, greased with butter.
7. Bake at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.

When served, kids can eat the soufflé like a cupcake, because it is so convenient to hold with your hand.

The easiest dessert

For the lightest dessert, we can always serve conveniently cut fruits (apples, pears, bananas, nectarines, apricots) and candies.

Desserts and their recipes, which are covered in a separate article

A sweet table for a children's birthday is highlighted in separate articles.

If you decide not to limit yourself to sliced ​​fruits and candies, then look through our selections. Perhaps you will look for something interesting for a holiday for children under 3 years old.

Children under 3 years old – special category eaters. Among them may be allergy sufferers, children with frequent dyspepsia, little ones and whimsical children. We hope you found some recipes or birthday menu ideas you liked for children under 3 years old in our article.

Remember all the components of the selected recipes to easily answer possible questions from the parents of young guests. And let these questions be dictated only by admiration for the good appetite of a satisfied child!

Canapés are mini-sandwiches that are often placed on a skewer.

In Europe they are consumed every day for a quick snack. Canapés are prepared at home or ordered in cafes, where they are very popular and are presented in various variations.

For us, this is a more festive dish, without which it is difficult to imagine a buffet.

Most often, holiday treats for children are thought out by mothers or holiday organizers. Ingredients for children's canapés are preferably neutral that do not cause allergic reactions.

Little gourmets will appreciate the delicious light snacks. Equally important beautiful design and delivery.

Canapes on skewers

This is a tiny treat that weighs 60-80 grams. Ingredients different shapes, placed on a small stick, it is convenient to put the whole thing into your mouth.

The skewer not only serves to make the dish look aesthetically pleasing, but also allows you to make the eating process more convenient. By holding a skewer, you can easily eat the food. Your hands will remain clean.

Below are various canapé options that will help, among other things, give the children's table an elegant look.

Fruit canapés on skewers

For them The following fruits are great: apple, pear, kiwi, banana, peach or nectarine, grapes(seedless). The choice should be made on those fruits to which children do not have food allergies.

To prevent the fruit from darkening too quickly, they should be cut before serving. Save longer beautiful view You can sprinkle the finished canapés with lemon juice.

Procedure before threading the pieces onto a skewer:

• Rinse the fruit under cool running water.
• Let them dry a little in a bowl or on a paper towel.
• Remove peels and seeds.
• Cut into circles, cubes, or even funny shapes using molds (dog, duck, mouse, Christmas tree and much more).

Below are the most interesting recipes children's fruit canapés on skewers.

Pineapple boat

A half ring of canned pineapple is strung on multi-colored plastic toothpicks - this is the future sail. Banana rings and ripe nectarine will serve as a deck.

You can carefully cut them out using a regular 20 cc syringe with the end cut off from the spout.

Sweet Rainbow

Cut tangerine, pineapple and kiwi into slices or cubes. Thread them together with raspberries, blueberries and grapes onto a long skewer according to the colors of the rainbow. Place the canapés next to each other to make the rainbow more visible.

It's beautiful bright and healthy treat looks impressive on the holiday table.

Merry strawberry

Cut the peeled banana into slices 2 cm thick and sprinkle them with lemon or orange juice to prevent them from darkening. On a skewer, thread a fresh mint leaf, a medium-sized strawberry and a banana, which will be at the base of the canapé.

Draw smiling faces on the strawberries using cream. The children will be delighted!

tailed peacock

The lower part of our peacock's tail will be a pillow of tangerine slices and banana slices. On top there will be grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries strung on skewers.

The bird's body can become a pear. Make the paws and beak from tangerine peel, and the eyes from blackberry pieces.

Meat canapés on skewers

Meat canapes can be based on sausage, ham, boiled pork, baked or boiled pieces of chicken, duck, beef. In addition, you can use greens, lettuce, various vegetables, and olives.

Such original sandwiches on skewers will be the best treat for children at a birthday party.

The interesting thing is that on a beautifully decorated sofa, a child will eat even a product that he doesn’t really like - onions, carrots, sweet peppers, etc.

Canapes with boiled pork

Pieces of wheat or rye bread fry in butter until golden crust. Thread sweet peppers, pickled cucumber slices, diced boiled pork, hard cheese, and croutons onto skewers.

Garnish with dill and parsley.

Flight of fancy

Marinate the duck meat in orange juice for a day and then fry it on vegetable oil. Cut into thin slices. Cut the persimmon into slices.

Thread onto a skewer along with blueberries and a mint leaf. It turns out beautiful, juicy and appetizing.

Spring

Thread pieces of white loaf with mayonnaise spread, lettuce leaves, slices of ham, kiwi and halves of physalis berries (or any other) onto skewers. It would be ideal if the mayonnaise is homemade.

Quite voluminous for a canapé, but it turns out very tasty. Juicy green and yellow colors kids will love canapés.

Fragrant ham rolls

You need to cut the ham into very thin slices so that it rolls up well. For the filling you can use hard cheese (or cottage cheese), homemade mayonnaise, and a little garlic.

Spread the ham with the filling and roll it up. Pierce each roll with a skewer containing a pitted olive. Simple and satisfying!

Other canapés on skewers

If you need simple and tasty canapés, there are many products you can use.

You can combine meat, seafood, mushrooms, vegetables, cheese, olives, herbs, etc. in every possible way. You don’t necessarily need a lot of ingredients to get excellent taste.

The main thing is to combine them correctly.

Exotic fish

Cut lightly salted salmon into thin strips and wrap around a black olive. Place this roll on a skewer along with a mango slice.

It turns out extraordinary delicious snack, quick to prepare.

Senor Tomato

Cut small cherry tomatoes in half. Put a cube inside processed cheese or feta cheese.

Prick this stuffed tomato onto a toothpick along with a basil leaf.

Instead of feta cheese, you can use another white, lightly salted cheese.

Edible fly agarics

Beautiful mushrooms on skewers will definitely attract the attention of children. The cap is made from half a cherry tomato, and the leg is made from a boiled quail egg with the top slightly cut off. You can garnish with parsley.

Dots of sour cream or mayonnaise are applied with a toothpick.

Pancake Tower

Sliced ​​into portions with a sharp knife thin pancake spread with cream cheese. Top with another piece of pancake. Place a slice of lightly salted trout.

Alternate such layers to the desired height of the tower.

Canapes without skewers

A canape without a skewer is a small sandwich. It is based on toasted croutons or oven-dried bread.- golden on the outside and soft on the inside. The shape of a piece of bread can be different to make it more interesting for children: round, square, curly.

Anapa can be either a festive dish at a children's birthday party or an alternative to morning porridge.

A sandwich can also be made tasty and healthy for a child.

Can be used:

• wholemeal bread;
• cereal bread;
• oil;
• curd and cheese mass;
• cooked meat;
• vegetables, fruits, greens.

• bun;
• mayonnaise, ketchup;
• canned fish;
• overly salty or spicy foods.

You should approach the design creatively, but in such a way that the sandwich is easy to pick up and eat. The filling should not drip or fall out. The curd mass will help glue the vegetables and bread together.

Kids love helping prepare simple canapés with just a few ingredients. You can entrust them with such an exciting activity, and then enjoy the result together.

Sweet holiday sandwiches

Interestingly decorated mini-sandwiches at a children's party are much more beautiful and appetizing than store-bought sweets. They are easy to prepare and turn into real culinary masterpieces.

Fruit and nut happiness

Spread a slice of loaf with sweet jam. Place banana and pear cut into slices or slices on top.

Decorate with a flower cut from a peach. Sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts or other nuts.

Strawberry heart

Cut the white loaf at right angles into one and a half centimeter slices. Use a special cookie cutter to make hearts out of these slices. Carefully apply boiled thick condensed milk along the edge using a pastry syringe. Place strawberry jelly inside.

To harden, place in a cool place for 20 minutes.

Magic bread

Pieces white bread spread with a thin or medium layer of sweet curd mass.

Sprinkle colorful decorative food powder on top.

Makes a worthy holiday sandwich!

Mini meat sandwiches

The kids really like it sandwiches with different “edible” animals: Sausage Luntik, cheese Smeshariki, funny monkey or dog. Meat sandwiches To complete the color scheme, they should be supplemented with vegetables and herbs.

Sausage cartoon characters

All children love cartoons. The sandwich can be designed in the shape of your favorite character.

For example, Nyusha from “Smeshariki” can be made like this: put a leaf of lettuce and a slice of cheese on toast, and recreate the look using boiled and smoked sausage with tomatoes.

Mini pizza on a loaf

Cut the slightly stale loaf into slices and dip in a mixture of ketchup and water. Place on a baking sheet. Place the filling on top: sweet peppers, tomatoes, boiled meat, grated cheese and herbs.

Bake in the oven until done (or in the microwave).

Appetizing roses

Brush slices of crispy French baguette with butter.

Roll the ham rosettes and place them on the prepared bread slices.

Garnish with a slice of boiled egg, asparagus stalks, cucumber and herbs.

Other sandwiches

Preparing children's canapés is limited only by your imagination and the products you have on hand. All you have to do is put in a little effort and any banal sandwich will become a real work of art!

summer butterfly

The wings will be two eggs, each cut in half. Garnish them with slices of cucumber and radish. Make a body from a strip of red bell pepper, and the antennae are made from green onion feathers.

This butterfly looks great on a lettuce leaf placed on toast.

ladybugs

Spread a piece of bread with homemade mayonnaise or cream cheese. Make a feather bed from a piece of lightly salted salmon. Draw a ladybug on top using half a cherry tomato and a quarter of a black olive.

Draw the eyes with mayonnaise, and make black dots on the back from tiny pieces of olive. Decorate an impromptu clearing plate with a delicacy with a parsley leaf.

Sunny Hawaii

Simple, effective and juicy! Place a circle of ham and a ring of canned pineapple on the bread circles.

Place an olive or cherry tomato inside.

Decorate with any greenery.

Decoration of children's canapés

You shouldn’t wait for a special holiday to try out your yet unrealized talents in decorating children’s dishes. Any breakfast can be made more enjoyable by decorating the sandwich and the plate underneath.

In addition, the plate itself can be bright, colorful, decorated cartoon characters. And mothers who know the carving technique can cut out beautiful figures from fruits and vegetables.

Effectively serving and decorating children's sandwiches is a feasible task if you put in the effort.

And finally, basic tips that may be useful in preparing children's canapés:

• Products must be thoroughly washed and cleaned of skins, seeds, etc.
• It is best to cut food just before serving so that it does not lose its appearance.
• All ingredients should be chopped into small pieces so that it is convenient for children to eat them without the help of a knife and fork.
• To help the filling and decoration stick better to the sandwich, use a spread (preferably homemade).
• Pre-pounded butter easier to spread.
• You can do without sausage by replacing it chicken breast, turkey fillet, beef.
• Hard cheese can be replaced with mozzarella or health cheese.
• Canapés should be beautifully decorated and presentable on a platter.
• To help your child develop aesthetic taste, ask him to help in cooking.

Birthdays are associated with balloons, candy, clowns, games, and most importantly, fun. It is important that the design of the children's table fits into the overall concept of the holiday.

Upon registration children's day It is important to adhere to a single idea and choose everything in the same style. IN Lately Themed birthday parties have become popular. For boys it can be a pirate holiday, for girls - in the style of princesses.

Start of serving

Decoration of children's festive table, like an adult, starts with the tablecloth. Pretentious and expensive materials should remain where they were - in the closet. Firstly, children can spill them or get them dirty with something. And secondly, kids will like bright, unusual tablecloths more.

It is better to use a fabric tablecloth with a pattern or a bright oilcloth one. It can be polka dots, animal prints or even cartoon characters. You can play with two plain tablecloths different colors connecting them and decorating them with bows.

An example of serving is shown in the photo.

Napkins will be no less important at a children's party. They can be placed under a plate or rolled into a fancy shape and placed on a plate. You can use both multi-colored paper napkins and fabric ones with embroidery elements. The latter are not so practical, but they will emphasize the significance of the event and will not leave anyone indifferent.

An excellent solution for a birthday party would be disposable plastic tableware. Kids won't be able to break it and get hurt. It's about not about banal white plates. The variety of colors of disposable tableware is amazing. And children will definitely appreciate dishes with their favorite characters. Try to choose the entire set of dishes in one color scheme or topic.

Example photo with colored disposable tableware.

Additional elements in the design will not be superfluous. For example, M&Ms scattered directly on the tablecloth. An interesting decoration will not be a boring flower bouquet, but lollipops. Little sweet tooths will definitely appreciate this move.

To make each guest feel important, you can tie balloons with small gifts inside to the backs of chairs. When the guests leave, invite them to pop the balloons. They will be pleasantly surprised and remember it for a long time. You can use cards with the names of the guests. Place them on a chair or directly on a plate. There are a lot of options for designing such cards. (photo)

Menu for children's holiday table

On video: recipe for pancake cake, fruit salad and lemonade!

Many mothers have already become convinced own experience that kids don’t really like culinary experiments, especially during the holidays.

The key to success is simplicity. Save difficult meals for another day. Prepare something familiar: sandwiches, vegetable and fruit salads, chicken cutlets, mashed potatoes.

At first glance it may seem that the menu is not at all festive, but here decisive role has the design of the dishes. A little patience and this banality will turn into a real feast.
Children do not like “boring” food; they want to start playing faster. The task of parents is to keep their children eating. But you can’t glue them to a chair and you can’t hold them by force, so you’ll have to restrain them with the originality of the dishes.

An excellent solution would be sandwiches, snacks on skewers (for older ones) and tartlets (for little ones). Therefore, the menu for schoolchildren and children will be different.

It is necessary to take into account the age of the guests and select only approved and familiar products for them.

Salads and snacks

Canapés on skewers - a win-win, which does not require much effort - just carefully cut the ingredients into circles or cubes.

Ordinary sandwiches can be decorated in such a way that they will remain in children's memories for a long time. ladybugs made from tomatoes (as in the photo), funny animal faces made from cheese and sausage, mice made from eggs - these are not all the possible options.

Delicious and healthy dish will become a peacock tail. It is prepared from baked eggplants, processed cheese, boiled eggs, cucumbers and olives. An example of dish design is shown in the photo.

An original serving idea will give any salad a festive look. The main thing is that the idea is understandable to the child. Choose only those ingredients that children will definitely like.

Salads can be decorated with edible animals, flowers, mushrooms and create a whole composition on the plate.

The joy in little eyes will make you forget about the time spent in the kitchen and the effort spent.
Simple but original idea, mice will become. Make them from a mixture of grated hard cheese, crab shells, garlic and mayonnaise. Make the ears with carrots and the eyes with allspice black peppercorns. Decorate the plate with pieces of cheese and herbs and serve on the children's table. The success of this dish is guaranteed.

A good solution would be Mimosa with mice. Place the salad in the shape of a head of cheese on a flat plate and garnish with boiled egg mice. The salad's decoration is shown in the photo.

By taking chicken and quail eggs, you can create a mouse family.

Main holiday dishes

There is no need to focus on hot dishes. For a children's table, it is enough to prepare one thing, for example, cutlets in the shape of stars or flowers.

Hedgehog cutlets with crispy spines look interesting. They are prepared simply. Prepare the minced meat, form into balls, insert the spaghetti (break it into small pieces first) and place in the oven until cooked.

Multicolored mashed potatoes will impress the most demanding little gourmets. Prepare a regular puree and add the juice of boiled beets, carrots or spinach. You can add not only juice to the puree, but also the vegetables themselves, pureed in a blender. Place onto a plate using a pastry syringe.

Desserts and drinks: serving secrets

All children still have a sweet tooth. They wouldn't mind skipping all the appetizers and going straight to the sweets.

Plan your menu carefully. If you are serving high-calorie appetizers and salads, then it is better to choose assorted fruits for dessert rather than cream cake.

Serving fruit salad can also be played up. Forget the boring plate, serve it in big fruit. It could be melon or watermelon. Everything looks bright and juicy in the photo, rest assured that your little guests will really love this treat.

Fruit canapés can be placed on the table from the very beginning with appetizers or at the end with desserts. But you need to prepare such snacks just before serving.

Take the time to prepare fruit jelly (the design is shown in the photo). But show your imagination and pour it not into cups, but into half an orange peel. Multi-colored slices will definitely interest kids and will become the highlight of a children's banquet.

Even in drinks, kids prefer sweets. But don’t serve boring tetra pack bags of juice or plastic bottle with lemonade. At a minimum, they can be poured into beautiful jugs and placed on the table. But then you will have to pour everyone’s drinks yourself, because they may not be able to keep the jug from pouring over themselves and everyone around them.

You can use glass glasses and decorate the rim with sprinkles. It looks beautiful, and besides that, it’s also delicious. Also think about decorative umbrellas in glasses.

What to give up

Decorating a holiday for a child is not at all difficult. The main thing is to approach this with love, care and creativity. To avoid any trouble on such a special day, here are some things you should not do:

• decorate a room or table with lit candles. This is certainly beautiful, but also dangerous. Blown out candles on the cake are enough;

• if you decide to place fresh flowers, make sure that they do not have a strong smell;

• save expensive sets for another occasion;

• nothing spicy. All dishes should be convenient to eat without knives;

• You should not use small objects if the holiday is for kids, they can swallow tiny elements;

• do not use synthetic dyes;

• find out if anyone is allergic to certain foods;

• in a small room it is better to arrange a small buffet and leave more space for games.