At the moment everything is orange here!
Today it is Koningsdag (Kings Day) and there are celebrations going on throughout the land.
My girls wanted to do some ‘cooking’.
Whilst no actual cooking was involved (apart from microwaving the white chocolate 😉 ) the girls really enjoyed making these ‘Koningsdag’ snacks.
Easy Koningsdag Treats To Make With The Kids
We kept it simple and made two different things – one sweet and one savoury.
I chose these ideas because the girls could make them themselves.
The Dutch flag strawberries were made just by melting white chocolate dipping them in and then dabbing the bottom in the blue sugar.
The little tulip flowers were made with cheese blocks, cucumber, and carrot. I cut the cucumber into slices then let my eldest daughter Alexandra (who is 8 years old) slice them in half with a dinner knife and scoop the seeds out the middle.
With the carrot, she wanted to do this herself and a dinner knife was not going to ‘cut it’ (haha get it ‘cut it’ 🙂 ).
I let her use the vegetable peeler to peel them and then (very nervously) gave her a sharper knife to cut it into slices and cut 2 little triangles out the top to make the tulip shape.
I must admit I really should give her more credit and trust her more often she was very careful and did a great job!
Whoops there go the cocktail sticks!
Isabella sat next to her on the assembly line putting the cheese blocks, cucumber, and carrot pieces onto cocktail sticks.
They were really proud of their efforts!
Now the fun bit!
We are all ready for the Koningsdag celebrations!
What’s your favourite ‘recipe’ that you make with your kids?
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love both ideas Sam. The girls looked like they really enjoyed it x
These ideas are just precious! I would have never thought of those little flowers! My 3 y/o and I do a monthly “cooking with kids” post also. – Amy @ http://thegiftedgabber.com/
Glad you like these ideas, my girls had so much fun making them.
I popped over to see your kids cooking posts – your butter cookies look yum! 🙂
Oh I love the fruit kabobs! And the dipped strawberries. YUM! Yay for the kids doing this themselves too 🙂
Yes they had a lot of fun 🙂