For Seniors: Delicious and Fun! Christmas Snack Activity Ideas
One of the big events in December is Christmas.
Care facilities and day service centers are likely decorated in lively Christmas colors like red and green, creating a festive atmosphere indoors.
Seeing the Christmas decorations inside might make the elderly residents feel excited as well.
So this time, we’re introducing ideas for Christmas snack activities that will help seniors feel even more joyful.
We’ve gathered many cute, Christmas-themed treats that are easy to make using store-bought items and that look perfect for the season once finished.
We hope these snack activities—fun to make and fun to eat—will help seniors enjoy a wonderful time.
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[For Seniors] Delicious and Fun! Christmas Snack Activity Ideas (1–10)
Banana-flavored chocolate
Here’s an easy three-ingredient chocolate ball recipe.
Mix crushed biscuits with heated, mashed banana and shape the mixture into balls.
Coat the balls with chocolate melted over a double boiler.
While they’re chilling and setting in the refrigerator, it’s helpful to prepare the chocolate for decorating.
Once the balls are firm, decorate them with the chocolate in any design you like.
The ingredients are easy to find, so you can make these casually.
The method is simple too, making it enjoyable for older adults to make as well.
Christmas stamp cookies
In the West, it’s common to make ginger cookies with ginger and cinnamon.
In Japan, we don’t have much of a custom of making ginger cookies, but you do sometimes see person-shaped cookies at Christmas.
Let’s try making cookies for our December snack activity, too.
For cutting out the cookie dough, we’ll use stamp-style cutters with Christmas-themed designs.
This makes it easy to create cookies that fit the holiday.
Just cut them out, bake them in the oven, and they’re done.
Decorating the cookies with store-bought chocolate pens is also recommended.
Some older adults may have had opportunities to bake cookies at home in the past.
Making cookies could be a chance to look back and reminisce about those memories.
Tree pie with pie sheet
Let’s make a Christmas tree pie using store-bought puff pastry sheets.
Spread chocolate cream between two pastry sheets.
Cut them into strips.
Skewer the cut pastry onto bamboo sticks in the shape of a tree.
Also cut out some stars from the pastry with a star-shaped cutter.
Bake in the oven to finish.
After baking, sticking a star on top of the pastry tree on the skewer will enhance the Christmas tree look.
To give the surface a glossy finish, the key is to brush on beaten egg yolk before baking.
The cute tree shape makes it an activity that older adults can enjoy making as well.
[For Seniors] Delicious and Fun! Christmas Snack Activity Ideas (11–20)
Rich Fruit Yogurt
How about fruit yogurt made with plenty of fresh fruit? Yogurt is said to be easy for older adults to eat.
First, transfer plain yogurt from the container onto a plate lined with paper towels.
Doing this drains the excess liquid and gives it a rich, creamy texture.
In a separate bowl, combine the yogurt with whipped cream and chopped fruit.
Use your favorite options, such as seasonal fruits or canned fruit.
If you decorate the top with fruit in the shape of a tree, you’ll have the perfect snack for Christmas.
Christmas scoop cake
Have you heard of a “scoop cake”? A scoop cake is a cake you eat straight from the container by scooping it with a spoon.
To make one, you layer things like sponge cake, fruit, and whipped cream in a container.
Unlike a typical decorated cake, there are no fiddly steps and you don’t have to cut neat slices, so it’s easy to make.
Using store-bought sponge cake makes it even simpler.
If you decorate the top with fruit in the shape of a Christmas tree, it will feel even more festive.
A scoop cake is easy yet looks like a proper cake, so it’s likely to be a hit with older adults as well.
Cornflake wreath
Here’s a fun idea to make a Christmas wreath that looks just like the real thing using cornflakes.
Since you’ll be using store-bought sweets, it’s easy to put together.
Mix cornflakes into white chocolate flavored with matcha powder to form the wreath.
Because the chocolate is sweet, you might want to use cornflakes with less sweetness.
Shape the chocolate-coated cornflakes into a ring.
Then top with dried strawberries and silver dragées.
Decorating with ribbon shapes made from chocolate pens would look lovely too.
Seeing the cornflake wreath should help older adults enjoy the feeling of the season as well.
Tree cookie
These Christmas tree cookies are so cute, you’ll almost feel bad eating them.
Put the ingredients into a bowl and mix, then divide the dough into two portions.
Add matcha powder to one and cocoa powder to the other.
Using both doughs, pipe them into the shape of a tree.
Place a star-shaped topping at the very top and bake in the oven.
Once baked, decorate with a chocolate pen or chocolate toppings to finish your tree cookies.
The decorating step seems like something older adults would enjoy, too.
It’s a great idea that can spark conversation and help people connect.