Christmas Lights Toast
If you’re looking for a super easy, super cute, and super educational festive breakfast idea, this Christmas Lights Toast is about to become a family favourite.
It takes just a few minutes to make, requires zero fancy ingredients, and gives children a hands-on way to practice fine motor skills, pattern-making, and creativity — all while having genuine festive fun.
Learning Moments
- Fine motor skills: Placing “bulbs” on the line
- Colour recognition: Sorting by colour
- Patterns: Make repeating colour patterns (red–green–red–green)
- Counting: Count how many bulbs they used
- Creativity: Design their own light shape or zig-zag string
Equipment
- Toaster
- Dinner knife or child safe knife
- Scissors
Ingredients
- 1 slice of wholemeal bread
- Cream cheese
- Fruit – blueberries, raspberries, banana
- Ground cinnamon
- Spinach leaves
Safety Notes
- If just starting your cooking journey together, then please carry out the recipe together
- Make sure that you are using child safety knives
- Clean the worktop and area that is being used for food preparation before you start
- Wash hands before creating the sandwich
- Check for allergies before starting and adapt the recipe as needed
- Cut food into child safe sizes, to avoid choking
- Start with simple tasks for your child and build on them
