Edible Spring Nests: A Creative Easter Snack for Kids (2024)

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by Jean Van't Hul

January 1, 2022

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Looking for a creative Easter snack for kids? These pretzel and peanut butter birds’ nests are easy, fun and yummy!

Updated February 2022

One of our favorite Easter activities inJean’s book, The Artful Year: Celebrating the Seasons & Holidays with Crafts & Recipes,is this Easter snack for kids! Birds’ nests made out of peanut butter playdough and pretzel sticks. This is both a creative activity and a yummy snack!

First, the kids make a batch of the peanut butter playdough. Then they mold it into theshape of a birds’ nest, adding pretzel “sticks” and either eggs or little birds. And then they eat it, of course!

Creative Easter Snack for Kids

MATERIALS

Peanut Butter Playdough (see recipe below)
Pretzel sticks
Easter candy, like chocolate eggs or marshmallow peeps

INSTRUCTIONS

Make your playdough
Using the recipe below, or your favorite edible playdough recipe, make the peanut butter playdough.
Create your nest shape
Divide the peanut butter dough into 4-6 balls. Roll the peanut butter into a ball and then press your thumb into the center, working it around the circumference to create a pinch pot.
Add pretzel sticks
Poke and press the pretzel sticks into the peanut butter pinch pot to act as twigs in the nest snack.
Don’t forget your eggs!
Once the nest is complete, add a few little candy eggs or a marshmallow Peep.

Finally, eat your nest snack, of course!

Printable Recipe

Peanut Butter Playdough

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Author: Jean Van’t Hul

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Description

This edible playdough recipe is so easy to make and is a guaranteed hit for pretend play (and maybe a little nibbling!).

Ingredients

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Instructions

Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl with an electric mixer. It’s as easy as that!

Notes

Note:We’ve tried a number of variations on the peanut butter playdough, sometimes including a cup of powdered milk in place of a cup of the powdered sugar, sometimes adding cocoa powder for a more chocolate-y experience, etc, but we usually come back to this basic recipe.

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This is one of many Easter snack ideas for kids and spring arts and crafts ideas from my book, The Artful Year: Celebrating the Seasons &Holidays with Crafts &Rec i pes.

More Easter Arts and Crafts Ideas

11 Creative Easter Egg Ideas for Kids
25 Easter Basket Ideas for Kids with Creative Gifts

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