Birthday party food doesn’t have to take hours to prepare or completely blow your budget. When it comes to kids and party food, variety and presentation are answer.

Rather than cooking a few specialty dishes, aim for serving lots of small dishes of fun and kid-friendly finger foods.

Try to serve mainly savory foods and only a few sweet treats. This will help avoid dreaded sugar highs. Here are a few time-tested party food tips.

Presenting Kid Party Food - Make it fun, fun, fun!

Honestly, it really doesn’t matter what you serve as long as you wow them with presentation. You want kids to see table, light up and rush to their seats. Okay… so how do you do that?

1. Plenty of color - Use colorful kid tableware, balloons, serving bowls, etc.

2. Plenty of variety - Serve lots of small bowls or plates containing a selection of different finger foods such as cut fruit, bread sticks, mini muffins, mini wraps, crackers, cheese, etc.

One of most educational baby games for baby showers for new moms is also often most fun. It’s called Distraction. This is for two or three players at one time. The supplies you need will be two to three dolls.

Because baby showers are usually held in 7th or 8th month of pregnancy. It’s probably more relaxing and fun for mommy-to-be to only watch. This is because this is one of more active baby games for baby showers.

Two or three volunteers (perhaps one or two people who don’t yet have children?) are actors. They begin simply by holding dolls. The baby shower hostess tells them their babies are crying. They each try to console baby.

This is where distractions begin. Members of “audience” (your other baby shower guests, including guest of honor) begin yelling out distractions one at a time. All of acting mothers have to deal with each distraction, while still comforting their crying baby.

As baby games for baby showers are for entertainment of baby shower guests, let them get as creative as possible. Potential distractions can include dog needing to go outside. Then maybe they waited too long to let dog out and have to clean up a doggie accident while not dropping crying baby.

Meanwhile, UPS man comes to door needing mommies to sign for a package. The phone might also be ringing while something is burning on stove. Get picture?