Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet one in six kids in the UK do not eat breakfast. I have two very different kids in this house, Maxi will not leave the house without breakfast and Mini would skip it given the chance. So we jumped at the chance to become representatives for Weetabix and help promote their Weetabuddies campaign and have a go at creating our own Weetabuddy.
Weetabix have created the ‘Weetabuddies’ to encourage families to get creative at breakfast whilst having a healthy start to the day.
So what is a Weetabuddy?
They are a range of characters to make breakfast a little more fun! You can meet all the characters here on the Weetabuddy site.
Make your own Weetabuddy
Weetabix is Mini’s breakfast of choice and has been since he was tiny, so this was a fab exercise to encourage him to make and eat breakfast.
What you need:
- Weetabix
- A selection of fruit.
- Other food items, we used nutella and peanut butter to help keep our fruit in place
What next?
My boys are old enough to use knives to chop and prepare their own fruit, so they chopped grapes and banana. I provided a selection of fruit for them to choose from.
They then had fun positioning the fruit where they wanted it and to keep them in place used a selection of nutella and smooth peanut butter.
It was really interesting to see what they chose and it didn’t surprise me that Mini went down the banana and peanut butter routine as they are one of his favorite sandwich fillings! He also swiped a couple of large chocolate buttons left over from the christmas chocolate for his dudes eyes! Mini also decided that chocolate, peanut butter and banana was the perfect combination to go with the warm milk he to have his weetabix with.
Maxi on the other hand is currently obsessed with grapes and decided to model his weetabuddy on himself and called it Mop. Mini only ever has ice cold milk on his weetabix
Why not have a go at creating your own Weetabuddies with your kids and upload them to the Weetabuddy web site here for the chance to win prizes everyday (and fame for your Weetabuddy!).
You can even make a Weetabuddy online if you dont want to get your hands dirty!
And whilst we are talking about making Weetabuddies, take a look at the amazing Mr and Mrs Bix’s adventures over at Family Days Tried and Tested. My boys are now waiting for snow to take our weetabuddy’s on such an amazing adventure.
Oh my 3 would love to have an excuse to play with their food! This looks really fun.
They look great! Anything to make breakfasts more fun and appealing for the kids! 🙂
This looks like a fun idea. Mine (16 and 12) are too grumpy in the mornings to try anything like that, sadly, but they do always have breakfast.
These look like great fun to make. My children would really enjoying doing this. Both my children really love their food and always eat breakfast so I am very lucky.
Oh mine only eat weetabix or cheerios for breakfast we must try this.
My two absolutely love their breakfast, they can’t get enough first thing in the morning! Loving your wheetabuddies!
What a wonderful idea to get your kids to enjoy breakfast.
Oh what a great idea, my oldest would happily skip breakfast everyday too. I love the wheetabuddies the boys have created x
These looks great, I would try anything that would get Baby to eat properly! x
Ooh I love weetabix with hot milk on a cold morning – must buy some today as am sure Syd would have fun with this!
Great idea this… I have trouble getting mine to eat anything in the morning that isn’t full of sugar which stresses me out! Will make an effort to give this a try x
I absolutely love Weetbix and should eat more than I do x
I am guilty myself of making sure the children have breakfast and then not bothering myself. Then I hit the biscuit tin hard instead at about 10am. I need to learn!
Brilliant, Jen – I love it! My son won’t east cereal at the moment, but hopefully this will spice up the breakfast table now!
My kids are coming for breakfast at your house -these are great!
We love Weetabix. J has been eating it every day since he was weaned! I bet he would love to get creative with it.
I openly admit I cannot stand weetbix too many ruined childhood breakfasts.
My little one loves weetabix. Maybe I will get him to make weetabuddies starting tomorrow!! X #weloveweekends
These are just fab – they made me laugh out loud – not sure if I would be able to eat them though as they are uber cute! Thank you for joining in with #weloveweekends
So cute! My daughter is just like my dad and I – I always have to make breakfast extra enticing to get her to eat. She loves the days where she gets to make scrambled eggs or french toast on the stove!
Thanks for sharing with the Party In the Kids’ Kitchen!
I think it’s absolutely okay to play with food to make it more appealing for kids. We like a nice plate of food, so why shouldn’t kids have one too?
Thanks for linking up with Monday Parenting Pin It Party x