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Last updated on March 15th, 2025 at 10:32 pm
The first day of Spring is March 20! I am ready for warmer weather, how about you? With the thought of warmer weather ahead, I thought it a good time to finish up my seasonal no-bake snack posts with simple no-bake spring snacks to make in the classroom!
No-Bake Spring Snacks
1. Spring Nests from The Artful Parent- This recipe includes peanut butter. However you can adjust the recipe to disclude the use of peanut butter, if a student has a peanut allergy or your school is nut-free. With this recipe you can choose to make the edible playdough ahead of time or let students join in the making of the playdough. Then, with the playdough students will create a nest, line it with pretzel sticks, and then add either a marshmallow Peep, chocolate eggs, or jelly beans. Click the button below for the recipe and pictures of a completed nest!
2. English Muffin Bunny from Childhood 101- This is an adorable and healthy snack! You’ll need to bring a toster to school for the day or borrow one from the teacher’s lounge to make this snack. You only need a handful of ingredients for this one: English muffins, cream cheese, strawberry jelly, raisins, and dried cranberries. First, toast the muffin. Then, students will cut one half of the muffin in half and arrange above the other half of muffin as ears. Next, students can use a plastic knife to spread cream cheese on all of the pieces. The jelly is spread onto the middle of the “ears.” Last, the raisins become eyes and the cranberries can be cut to make the nose and whiskers. Click the button below to see a picture of the finished product! Tip: If you live by a Harris Teeter, buy the English muffins when they go on a buy one, get one free sale! This happens regularly.
3. Carrot Patch Pudding Cups from Big Family Blessings- While not a fan of doing work at home, this one does take some prepping at home before hand. But if you enjoy dessert making, you will find it fun! The carrots are made by melting orange and green wafers and dipping pretzel sticks into it. Then, the green ends are sprinkled with green sprinkles. You could, also, make the instant pudding in advance, if preferred. Then, students will place a small amount of pudding in a plastic cup, add some crumbled brownie bites (about 2), add a little more pudding, and a little more crumbled brownie bite on top. Finally, students will stick a few carrots into the dirt. This recipe could be made after a unit on plants or as an Easter treat!
4. Easy Tree Snack from Fantastic Fun and Learning- This one is super-cute and is perfect for a unit on parts of a tree! All you need are few different kinds of pretzels and some green grapes. So, this one is, also, budget-friendly. This snack could be made whole class as well. Before creating the tree, as the post suggests, you could show the different kinds of pretzels and have a discussion about which tree parts each pretzel would be good for. Then, students will need a paper plate or piece of wax paper to build their tree on. Hand out the pretzels and grapes (can be halved prior to making the snack, so they don’t roll of the desks). Then, students create their trees including the roots. See the post from Fantastic Fun and Learning for more details.
5. Garden Flower Graham Cracker Snack from Faith-Filled Fun- For this snack, the flower is made on a graham cracker spread with cream cheese. The flower is created with a pretzel stick stem, sliced grape leaves, sliced strawberry petals, and a chunk of canned peach. The dirt is Cocoa Krispy cereal. The post linked through the button below includes variations, a photo, and a video!
6. Edible Butterfly Life Cycle from Teaching in Stripes- Most lower elementary classes learn about the life cycle of a butterfly in the spring! This is a fun edible culminating activity that could be used. Students will divide a paper plate into fourths and label it with the stages in the butterfly life cycle. Then, students can draw a basic picture for each. Next, you will hand each student a snack baggie with mini-marshmallows, gummy worms, grapes, and Pepperidge Farm butterfly-shaped crackers. You only need 2 of each item per baggie. Last, students decide where each snack should be placed to represent the butterfly life cycle. Students can eat the snack at the end, if desired. Food substitutions are included in the original post along with a photo.
7. Ocean Graham Cracker Snacks from Cutefetti- This one would be great for during an ocean theme! Blue frosting is spread on a graham cracker to be the water. Then, crushed graham cracker is sprinkled near the bottom to be the ocean floor. Next, the crackers are decorated with Goldfish crackers, green sprinkle seaweed, and a red sprinkle plus red hot (or red M&M or red Skittle) crab.
8. Rainbow Fruit Kabobs- This could be used as a math activity to go with patterns. Each student will need a shish kabob stick and some fruit. Any fruit could be used. Some suggestions are sliced strawberries, blueberries, sliced bananas, and pineapple chunks. Students will use the fruit to make a pattern. Then, have students draw a model of the fruit kabob and label the type of pattern created. This will provide some accountability and you will have something concrete to use for assessment once the kabob is eaten!
End Notes
As always be aware of any allergies your students have! Most of these recipes include variations, so you can avoid student allergies and still make the snack.
With the exception of the easy snack tree and edible butterfly life cycle, I suggest making these snacks in small groups with your students while the rest of the class works on independent activities. This will make it easier for you to monitor students as they make the snack and not waste time.
If you enjoyed this post, be sure to check out my other no-bake snack posts 8 Simple No-Bake Winter Snacks to Make in the Classroom and 10 Simple No-Bake Fall Snacks to Make in the Classroom.