Easy Bug Themed Snacks for Spring and Summer

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If you are looking for easy bug themed snacks, you have found the right place! We have rounded up some of the easiest bug themed treats for you to use in a various occasions and situations! Welcome in the spring season and warmer weather with insect snacks for kids. Or maybe you have an insect-loving kid who wants a cute bug party. These bug themed food ideas also do well for Earth Day. Explore these vegetable bugs, fruit bugs, and dessert bugs!

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Making Easy Bug Snacks to Welcome in the Spring and Summer Seasons

No doubt, it is hard to think of spring and summer without thinking of bugs – especially here in Arkansas. Personally, the Arkansas Girls don’t find real life bugs very appealing. However, when made to look all cutesy and tasty on a party tray, they aren’t so bad!

For a spring and summer occasion, you could easily make a cute tray of bug fruit snacks or bug vegetable trays. Little bugs will be a hit!

Bug Themed Food Ideas for Classroom Insect Unit

These types of bug themed food ideas work well to welcome in spring or summer. You could package up some insect snacks to send to your child’s teachers. Bug snacks make great treats to complement an insect unit it the classroom.

This would work from preschool all the way into high school (declares this teacher mama). However, many schools have a “store-bought only” policy when it comes to parents sending treats from home to the classroom. Check your child’s school first!

Choose Bug Party Snacks for a Bug Party

Maybe you are going all out with a bug party theme or maybe you just want a generic theme with a few bug elements to complement spring. These bug themed food ideas are a fun way to implement the bug themed birthday party.

Making Insect Themed Treats for Earth Day

One great option to consider is to send easy insect themed treats to commemorate Earth Day. Earth Day is a great day to get kids thinking about nature. Serve some cute insect cookies or cupcakes.

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What Kind of Purchased Foods Can Be Made Into Fun Bug Snacks?

When I say nearly anything in your kitchen fridge or pantry can help you create a bug theme snack, I mean it!

Common Ingredients for Sweet Bug Snacks

For the actual bug bodies of sweet bug snacks, you can use Oreo cookies, peanut butter, chocolate chips, chocolate pudding mix, cupcakes, donuts, graham crackers, pancakes, birthday cake, etc.

Easy Ingredients for Vegetable Bug Snacks

For vegetable bug snacks, you can use celery stalks, celery sticks, cucumber slices, black olives, green olives, cherry tomatoes, whole tomatoes, carrots, etc.

Common Ingredients for Fruit Bugs

For more healthy snacks like fruit bugs, try using strawberries, green grapes, red grapes, thin-sliced apples or whole apples, bananas, watermelon slices, etc.

Food for the Body Parts for Fun Bug Snacks

For the tiny body parts, you can use so many things! Try candy eyes, chocolate sprinkles, chow mein noodles, pasta pieces, nuts, chocolate chips, black olives, pretzel sticks, and slivers of veggies or fruit, etc.

Base for the Buggy Snack Ideas

For most buggy snack ideas, you will need some sort of base which will hold the little head to the bug body. You will also need the base to hold all the small pieces, mentioned above, together. Some good ideas for base include melted chocolate or small dots of cream cheese, Cool Whip, or sour cream.

Obviously, if your goal is to have a sweet treat, you will want to use a cream cheese mixture, melted chocolate, or Cool Whip. For a vegetable snack, a sour cream or a cream cheese mixture work well.

Getting Kids Involved

For your next party in spring or summer, you could set up kids’ snack boards with fresh fruit, gummy worms, and some of the easy bug themed snacks listed below. Be sure to offer a mix of healthy treats and sweet treats.

Some of the recipes will take just minutes while others are more involved. Whatever your needs are, these edible bug treats are a fun way for kids to get involved and help make these perfect snacks!

The kids have so much fun figuring out how to get creative for their own snack time. You will be surprised at all the creative ways you can find to put together a quick snack of fun bugs!

Norah Says…

All of these bug snack ideas are cute and they look yummy. It would be a lot of fun to make these! It is fun getting dirty in the kitchen sometimes!

Some of these recipes seem like a good way to use up lots of little leftover things in the kitchen – like pieces of olives or a few leftover chocolate chips. When your kids make these, they shouldn’t waste the products that they use. They should try to use up everything.