Weekends are typically some of the few days of the week where everyone is home and most everyone has a chance to sleep in. On lazy days when you don't feel like getting up early for breakfast, consider a brunch with your kids instead. Brunch mixes breakfast time with lunchtime and gives you the chance to spend time with your kids while eating well at the same time.
Breakfast Paintings
Regular breakfast foods can become art for a children's brunch by shaping food into fun shapes, such as a smiley face. Take two eggs sunny side up for the eyes, a orange slice for a nose and a couple strips of bacon to form a mouth. Many types of breakfast food can be made fun through shaping them or using cookie cutters, such as cutting pancakes into hearts or stars.
Pancake Or Waffle Bar
Pancake or waffle bars allow your children the chance to customize their pancakes to how they like them. Start with a mixture of pancakes or waffles including regular, banana, chocolate chip, peanut butter chip, blueberry or other kid favorites. Provide multiple toppings to top the pancakes and waffles with ranging from the traditional maple syrup and butter to fruit, chocolate syrup, powdered sugar, peanut butter, whip cream and anything else that sounds appetizing. For a healthier option, choose whole wheat pancakes and waffles, and a selection of low-calorie maple syrup and fresh fruit toppings.
Mini Muffins
Mini muffins are an easy addition to a children's brunch, and make muffins fun by shrinking them to kid-size. Purchase a mini muffin pan, which can be found in most convenience or cooking stores. Use any muffin mix you like, whether it be store-bought or home made. For a healthier brunch, choose bran muffins or muffins made from whole grains. Make sure and check the muffins three to five minutes before the end of the normal cooking time, as they don't take quite as long to cook. Muffins are done when a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
Breakfast Desert Pizza
If your kids love pizza, then a fruit pizza may be another option by combining fresh healthy breakfast fruit with no sugar added fruit preserves on sugar cookie dough crust. Press store-bought sugar cookie dough into the round shape of a 12-inch pizza pan. Bake at a low temperature of 250 degrees F for 25 minutes, or until lightly brown. Spread the fruit preserves thinly over the cooled cookie pizza crust and place slices of fresh fruit--such as bananas, strawberries, kiwis, mango or blueberries--in circles starting from the inside out, to create an attractive looking pizza.
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