Description
Butterfly Snack Bags are a fun no-cook kids snack craft made with fruit, crunchy snacks, and string cheese. They are perfect for lunchboxes, parties, playdates, and spring celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 string cheese sticks
- 1 cup chopped strawberries
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup veggie straws, chips, baby carrots, or celery slices
- 1 cup mini cheese cracker sandwiches or peanut butter cracker sandwiches
- 4 sandwich bags
- 4 pipe cleaners
- 8 small jewels or candy eyes for decorating
- 1 black permanent marker
- Glue, as needed
- Clear tape, as needed
Instructions
- Wash and dry the strawberries and blueberries, then chop the strawberries into small pieces.
- Place one sandwich bag flat on the counter.
- Wrap one pipe cleaner around the center of the bag to divide it into two even sections.
- Twist the pipe cleaner a few times around the center, leaving both ends pointing upward like antennae.
- Gently curl the pipe cleaner ends.
- Open the bag and add fruit to one side.
- Add veggie straws, crackers, chips, or another snack to the other side.
- Close the sandwich bag firmly.
- Fold back the top flap of one string cheese wrapper and tape it down to create a rounded butterfly body.
- Glue two jewels to the outside of the string cheese wrapper for eyes.
- Draw a smile on the wrapper with a black permanent marker.
- Place the string cheese over the center of the filled bag.
- Use a long piece of clear tape to secure the string cheese body to the butterfly wings.
- Serve right away or refrigerate until ready to pack or serve.
Notes
- Keep glue on the outside of the wrapped string cheese only.
- Use an ice pack if packing these snack bags in a lunchbox.
- For younger children, draw eyes with marker instead of using small jewels.
- Dry fruit well before adding it to the bag to prevent soggy crackers.
- Swap in grapes, apples, oranges, pretzels, celery, carrots, or other favorite snacks.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: No-Cook Assembly
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 snack bag
- Calories: 245
- Sugar: 13
- Sodium: 520
- Fat: 11
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Unsaturated Fat: 5
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 28
- Fiber: 3
- Protein: 9
- Cholesterol: 20