Owl Party Food Ideas for Kids

Turn sandwiches, fruit, eggs, rice cakes and cupcakes into playful edible owls with these owl party food ideas for kids. Kids can choose their own ingredients, arrange owl faces and use their creativity to make every owl look different.

Use these ideas for an owl theme dinner, birthday party, classroom activity or fun family cooking night. Choose a savory owl, add fruit or vegetables and finish with an owl dessert for an easy themed menu.

Easy Owl Theme Dinner Formula

Choose one savory owl + one fruit or vegetable side + one owl dessert. Set out sliced ingredients and let kids design their own owl faces, wings, feathers and feet.

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Build an Owl Theme Dinner
Owl Open-Face Tortillas
Owl Open-Face Sandwiches
Rice Cake Owls
Owl Omelet
Deviled Egg Owls
Owl Fruit Tray
Owl Desserts
Owl Cake
Owl Theme Questions

Build an Owl Theme Dinner

You don't need to make every owl on the page. Pick a few ideas that work together and let kids help assemble the meal.

Easy Owl Dinner Menu:

Main: Owl Open-Face Tortillas or Owl Sandwiches
Breakfast-for-dinner: Owl Omelet
Snack: Rice Cake Owls or Deviled Egg Owls
Fruit: Owl Fruit Tray
Dessert: Owl Cupcakes

Set Up an Owl-Building Station: Put sliced cheese, vegetables, fruit, olives and other toppings in small bowls. Kids can choose circles for eyes, triangles for beaks and longer pieces for wings, ears and feet.

Owl Open-Face Tortillas

Set out tortillas and simple toppings, then let kids design their own edible owls.

Owl faces created on open-face tortillas

Ingredients

Tortillas
Cheese slices
Salami, pepperoni or ham circles
Black or green olives
Mayonnaise, ranch dressing or another spread
Celery sticks, optional

Directions

Place a tortilla on a serving plate.
Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise, ranch or another favorite spread over the tortilla to help the toppings stay in place.
Cut circles from cheese or deli meat for the owl's eyes and feathers.
Cut additional pieces for wings, ears and a beak.
Add olive slices for the eyes.
Arrange the pieces on the tortilla to create your owl.
Place a celery stick underneath the owl to look like a tree branch, if desired.

Let Every Owl Be Different: Rather than copying one design exactly, give kids several toppings and let them experiment with shapes, colors and patterns.

Owl Open-Face Sandwiches

Use bread instead of tortillas to create another easy owl-building activity.

Open-face owl sandwich decorated with eggs, olives and deli meat

Build an Owl Sandwich: Start with a slice of bread and add ham, turkey, chicken or another favorite sandwich filling. Use hard-boiled egg slices for large round eyes, olive slices for pupils and vegetables or cheese for the beak, ears and wings. A strip of bacon, celery or another long food can become the owl's tree branch.

Use What You Have: Owl faces work best when kids have a mixture of circles, triangles and strips. Cheese, cucumbers, carrots, olives, eggs and deli meat all give them useful shapes.

Rice Cake Owls

Turn a round rice cake into an owl face with fruit, cereal and a favorite spread.

Rice cake owl decorated with fruit and cereal

Ingredients

Rice cakes
Peanut butter or another favorite spread
Round cereal
Apple slices
Blueberries
Banana slices
Melon

Directions

Spread peanut butter or another favorite spread over the rice cake.
Add banana slices and blueberries to create large owl eyes.
Arrange round cereal and apple slices to create feathers or wings.
Cut small pieces of melon for the beak and feet.
Keep decorating until your owl is complete.

Nut-Free Option: Use cream cheese, sunflower seed butter or another family-safe spread instead of peanut butter.

Owl Omelet

Turn a cooked omelet into an owl for breakfast or a breakfast-for-dinner theme.

Decorate Your Owl: Add cucumber slices and olives for the eyes, pieces of bell pepper for the ears, beak and feet, avocado for wings and a strip of bacon for a tree branch.

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Deviled Egg Owls

Decorate filled egg halves with cheese, deli meat and olives to make tiny owl snacks.

How to Make Them:

Prepare hard-boiled eggs and allow them to cool.
Cut the eggs in half and remove the yolks.
Prepare your favorite deviled egg filling and spoon it back into the egg whites.
Cut cheese, salami, pepperoni or ham into small shapes for wings and beaks.
Add olive slices for the owl's eyes.

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Owl Fruit Tray

Arrange colorful fruit into a large owl for an easy party centerpiece or healthy side dish. Use round fruit for the eyes, sliced fruit for feathers and contrasting pieces for the beak and feet.

Make It Your Own: Use whatever fruit is in season. The owl shape matters more than matching the exact fruits shown in the video.

Owl Dessert Ideas

Finish the owl theme with cupcakes, a cupcake cake or another dessert decorated with big owl eyes and a simple beak.

Chocolate owl cupcake decorated with sandwich cookies

Owl Cupcakes

Frost chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Open two chocolate sandwich cookies and place the cream-covered halves on top for large owl eyes. Add brown candies for pupils and a cashew or other small edible piece for the beak.

Cupcakes arranged and decorated as an owl cake

Owl Cupcake Cake

Arrange cupcakes together and decorate the tops as one large owl for a party dessert that is easy to serve.

Nut-Free Owl Cupcakes: Instead of a cashew for the beak, use a small piece of candy, fruit, fondant or another nut-free decoration.

Decorated Owl Cake

Idea by Joanne Clifton, Kerrville, Texas

This 12-inch round owl cake was designed to match a party invitation. Joanne first sketched the design on parchment paper, then used simple household shapes as guides for the different sections of the owl.

Decorated round owl cake with teal and white frosting

How the Owl Design Was Planned:

Use small and medium bowls as guides for the large circles around the owl's eyes.
Use a smaller round shape to mark the pupils.
Sketch the triangular beak between the eyes.
Mark the chest and wings before decorating.
Add horned ears, a top tuft, feet and other details to match your owl design.

Decorating the Cake:

Joanne baked a 12-inch round lemon cake using two pound cake recipes.
The top was iced white and the sides teal.
Black frosting created the pupils and eyelashes.
Dark and light teal frosting applied with a leaf tip created the feathered areas.
Tan frosting was used for the wings.
Fondant pieces were prepared for the feet, ears, bow and top tuft and attached to sticks so they could be inserted into the cake at the party.

Design Tip: If you want a cake to match an invitation, drawing the design on parchment first makes it much easier to plan where the eyes, wings, beak and other features should go.

Owl Party Food Questions

What foods can I make for an owl theme party?

Try owl tortillas, open-face sandwiches, rice cakes, omelets, deviled eggs, a fruit tray and owl cupcakes. Round foods and sliced ingredients work especially well because they make easy owl eyes and feathers.

What is the easiest owl food for kids to make?

Rice cake owls and open-face tortilla owls are especially easy because kids can start with a round base and arrange prepared toppings to create their own designs.

How can kids help with an owl theme dinner?

Kids can arrange sliced ingredients, make owl faces, add eyes and wings, decorate cupcakes and help build a fruit tray. Adults can prepare hot foods and handle knives as needed.

What shapes are useful for making owl food?

Circles work well for large owl eyes, triangles make easy beaks and longer slices can become wings, ears, feet or tree branches. Fruit, vegetables, cheese, eggs and deli meat provide plenty of simple shapes.

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