Let's build snowmen you can eat, and they won't melt! This easy no-cook recipe is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 10 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.
Banana snowmen are a ten-minute, no-cook winter snack for little kids: three banana coins on a plate, mini chocolate chips for eyes and buttons, a carrot nose and pretzel arms. A child slices the banana with a butter knife and builds the snowman; a grown-up cuts the tiny carrot noses.
A cutting board, A sharp knife (grown-up), A butter knife, A plate.
Steps
Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds, then let's make Snowmen That Never Melt!
Peel 1 banana and slice it into thick coins with a butter knife.
Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts a tiny pointed sliver of 1 carrot for each nose.
Lay three coins in a line on your plate: big at the bottom, small on top.
Press on 1 tablespoon of mini chocolate chips: two eyes on the top coin and buttons down the middle.
Add the carrot nose to the top coin.
Poke 4 pretzel sticks in at the sides for arms.
Give your snowman a name, then eat it before it melts. Just kidding: it never melts!
Safety notes
Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
Contains milk, wheat, soy. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
Raw carrot is hard and round-ish for little ones under 4: grate it or cook it soft.
Read the label on packets for allergies.
Kitchen science
A banana is a tube, so every slice across it is a circle. Three circles, biggest at the bottom, stack into a snowman.
Make it your own
Make a whole snow family, big and small.
Use a strawberry slice for a hat on top.
Line the snowmen up on a long plate for a snowman parade.
Questions about banana snowmen
Is this safe for toddlers?
Raw carrot and chocolate chips are choking risks for little ones. Leave the nose off, or use a soft piece of strawberry, and press the chips in so they don't come loose.
Can I make them ahead?
Not for long: cut banana goes brown in the air. Build them just before eating.
Can we skip the pretzels?
Yes. The arms are optional, and the snowman is still a snowman without them. Gluten-free pretzel sticks work the same way.