Birthday menu 4-6 years old

One of the most anticipated holidays for all kids is their birthday. All year round, every child looks forward to this day. After all, these are gifts, delicious cake, beloved friends and so many interesting things. Thinking over a menu for a children's birthday for a baby 4-6 years old is a rather difficult task. At this age, it is still impossible to put on the table all the products that are allowed for adults.

Do not forget to buy a festive tablecloth - it will be a great addition to the holiday. And if you choose the option with your favorite character of the birthday boy, the joy will be doubly. Caps are a great addition, because they are associated with fun. They are inexpensive, but will serve as an interesting paraphernalia. Of course, you should also take care of interesting dishes. Bright plates to match the tablecloth are a great option.

How to create a holiday menu?

Children at the age of 4, 5 years are very fond of various decorations and interesting presentation of dishes. When drawing up the menu, focus not on the amount of food and salads that you put on the festive table, but on the original quality products for cooking. For a child of this age, the appearance of the dish will be more interesting than what it consists of.

When drawing up a festive menu for a children's table, use a few tips:

Plan your entire holiday table carefully. List foods. Buy groceries in advance.
Decide on a dessert. For kids of this age, a delicious birthday cake or a set of pastries is quite suitable. Opt for low-fat pastries with sour cream or yogurt cream. If the baby is not allergic to fruits and berries, you can decorate the finished cake with fruits. Fondant cakes will also be loved by kids. Choose your favorite characters from a fairy tale or cartoons for decorating such cakes. If you have invited many small guests to visit, you should choose multi-tiered cakes. So you will not worry that someone will be left without a treat.
Two appetizers, a couple of salads, hot and dessert will be enough. Do not overload the children's table with an abundance of ingredients and dishes. This can damage your baby's tummy.
Choose simple and uncomplicated meals. It is better to prepare salads and appetizers from familiar products, but in different combinations. You can make canapes or sandwiches with boiled chicken or turkey. Pieces of different vegetables, mini-corn, bell peppers look great on skewers.
Choose chicken, turkey or veal for your main course. For kids aged 4-6, it is better not to include fish or seafood in the holiday menu. Small bones can be caught in the fish, which the baby can accidentally choke on. Children are often allergic to seafood.
Be sure to complement the festive table with a fruit plate. You can cut any fruit, add berries. Decorate to your liking; whipped cream or powdered sugar works great. Children will be greatly pleased with colored sprinkles. Fruit in chocolate or glaze is also great as a dessert. Dip strawberries or banana slices in melted chocolate and garnish with chopped nuts or confectionery sprinkles. Kids love to eat such fruit and berry chocolate kebabs.
Give preference to home-cooked fruit drinks. They can be made easily and quickly from almost any berries and fruits. They will be an excellent substitute for purchased packaged juices or soda water and will significantly reduce your expenses when buying food for the festive table.

Interesting decorating ideas

Serving food is an important prerequisite for a good holiday mood for your little one. A child's appetite can be aroused even if you simply decorate the dish beautifully and interestingly.

Snacks

Choose light, uncomplicated snacks. A variety of canapes are great. Decorate them with decorative skewers. Choose multi-colored: this will add brightness and attract the child's attention. You can choose different skewers. An excellent option would be skewers with decorative figures at the ends. Girls will love cats or princesses, while boys will love weapons or a nautical theme.

Small sandwiches can be made in the form of real sailboats.

To do this, thinly cut a circle of cucumber and secure with a sail-shaped toothpick. Place a toothpick in the sandwich. It will turn out to be a real little boat. Any pate can be used for the filling. An excellent filling option would be a pâté made from boiled chicken or turkey. For kids 5-6 years old, you can use already rolled chicken liver mixed with butter.

Children's table salads are an element of real creativity. Lots of salads can be prepared as animals. Choose different options according to your taste: hedgehog, turtle, lion cub, kitty. Olives, chopped vegetables and herbs will help in decorating.

Hot dish

Kids love everything interesting and unusual.

Even ordinary chicken can be served very appetizing if you make chicken rolls or kebabs from it.

To make kebabs, first cut the chicken fillet and marinate in kefir for one hour. Don't forget to add salt. After that, string the pieces of chicken fillet on special wooden skewers, alternating with pieces of bell pepper and cherry tomatoes. Bake in the oven until tender. You can make tomato and cream sauces separately. Kids should love such a bright and unusual dish.

Chicken nuggets with baked potatoes will be no less interesting and beloved by all children. To diversify the holiday table, you can cook low-fat turkey nuggets. Try not to deeply deep-fry the dish. You can also make a dietary option and bake them in the oven. They go well with baked potatoes cut into long slices. Serve with sour cream and finely chopped dill. Try to cook more of this yummy, because the little ones will certainly ask for more!

Dessert

Glazing with mastic is perfect for decorating a cake. You can choose almost any color and decor - according to your desire. Girls can choose princesses or fairies, as well as fairy-tale characters and animals. For boys, minions, pirates, space heroes or comic and cartoon characters are suitable.

If the kid does not gravitate towards any specific cartoon characters, you can arrange a cake in the classic version and decorate it with whipped cream, pastry sprinkles, meringues or fruits, berries.

The best decorations for jellies and puddings are whipped cream and berries. This dessert looks very tender and airy.

An excellent table decoration will be a vase with marshmallows and lollipops. Choose bright colors. Kids love these treats very much.

Delicious recipes for boys and girls

Orange salad

Take oranges. Try to choose ripe and sweet fruits. Rinse and dry thoroughly. Cut into halves. Use a knife and a teaspoon to remove the inner contents from each half.

Boil chicken and eggs until tender, refrigerate. Cut into small cubes. Chop the orange pulp finely. If this produces juice, it is not required for the salad.

Combine chopped chicken, eggs, and oranges in a separate bowl. Salt, season with sour cream. Put the resulting mass in orange halves.

For decoration, cut the boiled egg into circles. Cut small circles out of the olives for the eyes and nose. Cut the mouth out of the boiled carrots. Put a circle of boiled egg - this will be the muzzle of the mouse. Add eyes and mouth. Use strips of thinly sliced olives to make tendrils. The ears will be from circles of olives.

Offer a portion to each little guest.

This uncomplicated dish is sure to please kids.

Read more about cooking salad in the next video.

Sweet kebabs

Take some pretty decorative skewers. Try to choose long enough, about 10 cm. String on skewers, alternating marshmallows, slices of chopped strawberries, kiwi and banana.

Melt 2 chocolate bars separately in a water bath. Pour the white chocolate into one bowl and the milk chocolate into the other. Dip the skewers in the chocolate so that the fruits and marshmallows are evenly covered. Then dip the skewers in pre-crushed walnuts or almonds. A few kebabs can also be sprinkled with confectionery colored sprinkles.

Such a dessert is always a hit of the children's festive table and causes a stormy delight among the birthday boy and little guests.

Children usually love banana cocktails. Cooking proportions: for 1 banana, take 100 gr. ice cream and 200 ml. milk. Add sugar to taste (you can replace it with condensed milk). Beat everything with a blender.

Decorate the treat with fruit, insert cocktail tubes.

To make the children's table look festive and beautiful, use a variety of ways to decorate and decorate dishes. Experiment with serving salads and appetizers. For a kid, a beautifully decorated dish is much more appetizing than a familiar one.