Flower Theme Dinner & Party Food Ideas for Kids
Bring flowers to the table with these colorful flower food ideas for kids. Make fruit flowers, flower-shaped sandwiches, edible roses, colorful cookies and other foods that turn an ordinary family meal into a fun flower theme dinner.
This theme works well for a spring or summer family dinner, garden party, birthday, tea party or cooking activity. Kids can help make the food, draw their own dinner menus and invitations, and create paper flowers to decorate the table.
Choose one flower-shaped main dish, add colorful fruit or vegetables, serve an edible flower snack or side, and finish with flower cookies or another garden-inspired dessert.
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Apple Flowers
By Alan – Sunrise
Turn apple slices into simple edible flower petals for a snack, side dish or flower-themed fruit plate.
Ingredients
- Apples
- Strawberries, cherries or other berries for the flower centers
Directions
- Have an adult or older child cut the apples into slices.
- Arrange the apple slices in a circle on a plate to make flower petals.
- Place a berry in the center of each flower.
Fruit Flowers
Let kids use colorful fruit to design their own edible flowers. Arrange the flowers on a plate, turn them into a fruit bouquet or use them to decorate breakfast.
Fruit to Try
- Sliced strawberries for petals
- Kiwi slices or strips for stems and leaves
- Blueberries or raspberries for flower centers
- Peach or orange slices for petals
- Grapes for stems or flower centers
Fruit Roll-Up Roses
Turn strips of fruit leather or fruit roll-ups into simple edible roses for a flower-themed snack or dessert decoration.
You Will Need
- Fruit roll-ups or fruit leather
- Kitchen scissors
Directions
- Unwrap one fruit roll-up and roll it tightly from one end to the other to form the center of the rose.
- Cut petal shapes from another piece of fruit leather.
- Lightly moisten the edge of each petal and press it around the rolled center.
- Add more petals until the rose looks full.
- If needed, trim the bottom so the finished rose can stand upright.
Flower Sandwiches
Flower-shaped biscuit sandwiches make an easy main dish for a flower theme dinner, garden party or spring lunch.
Ingredients
- 1 (16.3 oz.) can refrigerated biscuit dough or homemade biscuit dough
- 4 teaspoons sunflower seeds
- Shredded cheese
- 1 large tomato, sliced
- 8 lettuce leaves
- 4 oz. thinly sliced deli ham
- 8 slices American cheese or another favorite sliced cheese
Directions
- Prepare the biscuits according to the package directions or your homemade biscuit recipe.
- For half of the biscuits, carefully snip around the outside edge of the dough to create flower-shaped tops.
- Sprinkle the flower tops with shredded cheese and sunflower seeds.
- Bake the biscuits until golden brown and cooked through.
- Let them cool enough to handle.
- Layer lettuce, ham, tomato and sliced cheese on the plain biscuit bottoms.
- Top each sandwich with a flower-shaped biscuit.
Flower Oatmeal
Turn a bowl of oatmeal into an edible flower garden by arranging fruit and chopped nuts on top.
Rainbow Flower Cookies
Colorful sugar-coated petals turn ordinary sugar cookie dough into bright flower cookies for a garden party or flower theme dessert.
Ingredients
- Sugar cookie dough
- 3-4 colors of decorating sugar
- Chocolate candies or other small round candies for the flower centers
Directions
- Roll the sugar cookie dough into a log and wrap it in waxed paper.
- Freeze for about 20 minutes.
- Slice the chilled dough into circles.
- Cut each circle into 4 wedge-shaped pieces.
- Coat the wedges in different colors of decorating sugar.
- Arrange the wedges on a cookie sheet to form flower petals.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges are lightly golden.
- While the cookies are still warm, press a round candy into the center of each flower.
- Cool before serving.
More Flower Food & Cooking Ideas
Try more edible flowers, picture recipes and garden-inspired cooking activities with kids.
Lotus Flower Cookies
Watch how to shape decorative lotus-style flower cookies for another flower theme dessert idea.
Easy Flower Theme Party Ideas
Food can be the main decoration for this theme, so you don't need an elaborate setup. Add a few simple flower activities to turn dinner into a special family event.
More Fun Food & Theme Ideas
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Flower Theme Dinner & Party Questions
Fruit flowers, flower-shaped sandwiches, decorated pancakes or oatmeal, colorful vegetables and flower cookies all work well. Choose a main dish, fruit or vegetable side and one flower-themed dessert for an easy family dinner.
Kids can arrange fruit into petals, decorate cookies, assemble sandwiches, add toppings to pancakes or oatmeal and create their own edible flower designs. Adults should handle sharp knives, kitchen scissors and hot baking pans as needed.
Create an edible centerpiece with fruit flowers or colorful vegetables, or let kids make construction-paper flowers and arrange them in a vase for the table.
A flower theme works especially well for spring and summer dinners, garden parties, birthdays, tea parties, Mother's Day activities or any time kids are learning about flowers and gardens.
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