Kids Simple Smoothie Recipes. (2024)

Simple smoothie recipes don't have to be enjoyed only on a hotsummer day. Many people have a smoothie each morning for breakfastand they also make a quick healthy snack. Smoothies are a great wayto get kids to drink a cool drink packed with fruit, vegetables,vitamins and calcium all depending on what you mix in them.

Smoothies are easy to put together. Use whatever fruit you haveavailable and add a little milk, some yogurt and some ice cubes. Itreally is that simple. You can also add extra flavors like sugar orvanilla. I prefer to leave the sugar out but it is an individualpreference.

Simple Smoothie Recipes

The great thing about smoothies is, you can be creative and discoverwhat your favorite flavor is. One of our favorite flavors at ourhouse is mango strawberry. Our least favorite was when we added agrapefruit including the white part. It turned out very bitter. (weshould have known) Next time we will cut out the grapefruit bysections, then blend in our smoothie!

The secret to really great smoothies is in the blender. Your bestoption, and most economically in the long run, is to get a heavyduty blender. I have a Vita Mix and I use it at least once a day notjust for smoothies though I use mine for chopping vegetables incooking. Cream soups are great made in the blender. Shaved ice isfun and easy with the Vita mix. It has been an investment that hasreally paid for itself.

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Simple Smoothie Recipes for Kids-Why they're great!

Smoothies are an ideal snack for growing kids. In our world ofquick, unhealthy snack solutions, it can be hard to make sure yourchildren are getting all the nutrients they need. Add to this thefact that kids are often put off vegetables and fruit because thesefoods don't have the advertising dollars behind them as certainbrands of hamburgers and sugar-loaded cereals. So it can be hard toeven persuade your kids to polish off the vegetables on their plateor eat the apple you put in their lunch box.

Smoothies eliminate some of these problems because you don't have toconvince the kids to eat anything. If a smoothie tastes good withoranges or strawberries, you can add a stick of celery or two andhalf the time kids won't even notice the difference.It's a good wayto sneak a few extra nutrients into their diet "under the radar."

But ultimately, you want your kids to be in on what goes in theirsmoothies and start making their own. In this way smoothies canbecome a great nutritional teaching tool as kids learn that healthysnacks can also taste great.

Simple Smoothie Recipes-How to Get Your Kids Involved

Kids are always more likely to eat something healthy if they have ahand in preparing it, and that preparation is fun. So one of thekeys to getting kids interested in making smoothies is making thewhole process exciting and fun.

One important tip is to keep the recipes simple at first. The easiera smoothie is to make, the faster a kid can pick up the process -and often just being able to do it will inspire your child'senthusiasm. Obviously the younger the child the more help andsupervision they will need, but you can let them do things likeputting the fruit in the blender and pushing the blend button.

Also, don't be too restrictive on the ingredients you allow insmoothies for kids. You should try to make them healthy, but there'snothing wrong with a dollop of ice cream or some chocolate sprinkleshere and there. Just make sure the smoothies lean more towards thehealthy ingredients, rather than becoming just another fatty, sugarysnack.

When it comes time to make a smoothie, make sure you talk it up. Beexcited about it yourself and your kids will follow suit. Try to usedifferent variations when it comes to recipes, and be prepared toexperiment with some out-of-the-box food combinations. Of course,with that in mind, you can always bribe a reluctant kid by adding abit of their favorite food - a dollop of peanut butter can be agreat secret weapon.

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Best Simple Smoothie Recipes

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

• 1 cup frozen strawberries or berry mix
• 2 cups orange juice
• 1 banana, cut in pieces
• ½ cup milk
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Add ingredients together in blender and blend until smooth.

Blueberry Fruit Smoothie

• Carton of blueberry yogurt
• 1 Cup of milk
• 1 Cup frozen or fresh blueberries, strawberries or peaches
• ½ cup ice cubes

Add all together in blender and blend until smooth.

Healthy Orange Smoothie

• 1 orange peeled and separated
• ¾ cup sliced peaches (if canned use juice also)
• 1 cup peach yogurt
• ½ cup ice cubes

Blend in blender until smooth. Substitute peaches with differentfruit such as banana or a can of mandarin oranges, if desired.

OJ Smoothie

• 1 Cup water
• 1 (6 oz.) can frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1 (6 oz.) carton vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 Cup frozen strawberries
• 1/2 Cup cold milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 10 ice cubes

Directions
Pour the water in the blender. Add the juice and yogurt to thewater. Carefully stir in the sugar, milk and vanilla. Cover theblend until the mixture is smooth. While blending add in 3 to 4 icecubes at a time and blend after each addition. Continue to add theice cubes until you have reached the thickness you desire. Makes 4servings

Tofu Smoothie

For an extra healthy smoothie recipe try adding tofu.

• ½ Cup tofu
• 1 banana or 1 peach
• 2 Cups fruit juice, whichever you would like
• 8 oz. crushed pineapple, with juice
• 1/2 cup ice cubes

Substitute banana or pineapple for a different type of fruit if youwould like and experiment with different juices. Add ingredients toblender and blend until smooth.

Protein Smoothie Recipe

Add a scoop or 1 oz. of protein powder to any smoothierecipe.

Jello Smoothie Recipe

Small package of Jell-o or gelatin, any flavor

• ½ Cup milk
• 1 Cup yogurt, any flavor
• ½ cup fruit or 1 fruit of choice
• ½ cup ice cubes

Add ingredients in blender and mix until smooth.

Tropical Smoothie Recipe

• 1 orange peeled and separated
• ½ cup lemon juice
• ¼ cup crushed pineapple with juice
• 1 banana cut in pieces
• ¼ cup milk
• 1 cup yogurt

Mix ingredients all together and blend until smooth.

Topone of our simple smoothie recipes with fruit kabobs on a straw. Usesliced strawberries, sliced bananas or other fruit. Push slicesthrough a straw and add to your smoothie for fun.

Grape Smoothie

• ½ cup white grape juice
• ¼ cup seedless grapes
• ¼ Cup pineapple with juice
• ½ Cup milk
• ½ cup ice cubes

Add all together in blender. Make any substitutions you'd like forthe fruit juice or in place of pineapple. Blend.

Mixed Berry

• 1 Cup raspberries or blackberries
• 1 Cup blueberries
• 1/2 Cup vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 Cup frozen strawberries
• 1 Cup sliced bananas
• 1/2 Cup
• 2-3 ice cubes

Mix until smooth and top it with some raspberries and a blueberry inthe middle enjoy!

Cherry Simple Smoothie Recipe

• 1 Cup pitted cherries
• 1 cup flavored yogurt
• ½ cup milk
• 1 cup ice cubes
• 1 cup strawberries, one banana or 1 peeled orange

Add ingredients together in blender and blend until smooth.

Apple Smoothie Recipe

• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• 1 cup apple juice
• 1 carton apple yogurt or other flavor
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 cup ice cubes

Mix ingredients together in a blender and blend until smooth.

Banana Green Smoothie

Kids Simple Smoothies Recipes

Banana Split Smoothie

• 1 banana
• 1 Cup frozen cherries
• 1 Cup milk
• 1 Cup banana, vanilla or cherry yogurt *

*You can replace yogurt with vanilla ice cream if desired. Add toblender and blend together. Top with a frozen cherry or bananaslices.

Purple Cow

• 2 Cups grape juice
• 1 Cup blueberries
• 2 Cups plain or vanilla yogurt

Add to blend and blend until smooth. Top with a dollop of whip creamand purple sprinkles if desired.

Apple Banana Smoothie

• 1 Cup applesauce
• dash of cinnamon
• 1 Cup milk
• 1 banana, cut in chunks

Blend ingredients until smooth.

Breakfast Oat Smoothie

• 1 Cup milk
• 1 instant oatmeal packet
• 1 banana, cut in chunks
• 1/2 Cup blueberries
• 1 Cup apple or orange juice

Blend ingredients until smooth.

Simple Strawberry Smoothie

• 5-6 strawberries
• 1 Cup strawberry yogurt
• 1 Cup orange or apple juice

Blend ingredients until smooth.

Blackrazzleberry Smoothie

by Allyson (Greensboro,NC,USA)
Put 1 cup of blackberries into a blender along with 1 cup ofraspberry sorbet.
Then add 4-5 ice cubes, then blend until smooth...enjoy!
Optional: top with a few raspberries or blackberries!

Green Monster Smoothie

by Florence

• Couple handfuls of spinach leaves
• vanilla yogurt
• banana
• berries

Put into a blender mix well. Enjoy, it really does not even tastelike spinach....more like banana. Looks nasty, but tastes reallygood, my kids love it.

3 Ingredient Smoothies for Kids

Smoothies don't have to be loaded with lots of ingredients and bedifficult to make. A good go to recipe for making smoothies caninclude one of each of these three ingredients:

• 1 Liquid: milk, juice, almond milk, water
• 1 Fruit: whatever you like chopped- strawberries,blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, mango, peaches,pineapple are all good choices
• 1 Extra: extra fruit, yogurt, vegetables, wheyprotein, ice cubes, oats, chia seeds

Fruitie Tootie Smoothie!

by Danii

• 1 Banana peeled
• 6 frozen strawberries or berry mix
• 1 1/2 cups of orange juice

Blend until smooth.

Mango Smoothie

• 2 1/2 cups of Mango Juice
• 1 Cup of Vanilla yogurt or plain
• 1 Sliced Banana

Blend all ingredients together.

Frozen Berry

• 1/2 Cup ice cubes
• 1/2 Cup orange juice
• 1/2 Cup frozen berry mix

Add all ingredients to blender and blend until ice cubes arecrushed.

Grape Orange

• 1 Cup grapes
• 1 orange peeled and sliced
• 1 Cup frozen fruit

Blend until nice and smooth.

Strawberry Kale

Ingredients

• 2 Cups strawberries
• 1 Cup apple juice
• 4-5 kale leaves, stems removed

Directions
Add all ingredients to blender and blend until smooth.

Smoothie Bowl Ideas

Smoothie bowls are a fun way to serve a smoothie. To start make anysmoothie recipe above and pour into a serving bowl. Garnish yoursmoothie with dried fruits, sliced fresh fruits, granola, driedoats, seeds, nuts, flaxseed, chia seeds, etc.

Yogurt Smoothie Recipe

• 1 Cup strawberry yogurt
• 1 banana or other fruit
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup ice cubes

All ingredients together and blend.

Add strawberries for ears and nose. Then top little piggie detailsout of chocolate to make a smoothie bowl into a pig.

Raspberry Smoothie

• 1 cup raspberries
• 1 cup yogurt
• ½ cup juice
• 1/2 cup ice cubes

Add all together and blend until smooth.

For this raspberry bowl, top with fresh strawberries, nuts, chiaseeds and pomegranate seeds.

PB and Chocolate Healthy Smoothie

Create a chocolate smoothie and top with sliced almonds,peanuts, banana slices and chopped chocolate bar.

• 2 Cups milk
• 1/4 Cup peanut butter
• 1 Cup vanilla or plain yogurt
• 1-2 bananas
• 1/4 Cup chocolate protein powder

Blend until smooth.

Banana Blueberry Smoothie

• 2 bananas, sliced
• 1 Cup blueberries
• 1 Cup blueberry yogurt
• 5-6 ice cubes

Blend ingredients until smooth.

Fresh blueberries, granola, banana slices and chia seeds top thisblueberry smoothie.

Kids Berry Smoothie

by Katie (Schenectady, NY)
This recipe is easy to make and doesn't use that many kitchenappliances so it's safe for children.
You Will Need:

• 1/2 cup raspberries
• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 3/4 cups blackberries
• 3/4 cups milk
• teaspoon of vanilla (if desired)
• 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream or yogurt
• a blender

Directions:
Put all ingredients in the blender in any order. Blend ingredientsuntil a thick liquid then pour in a glass and enjoy your healthytasty drink!!!!!

Berry smoothie garnished with fresh fruit and granola.

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