The best part is that you can buy everything you need from under one roof, plus it’ll all cost no more than $150!
Need some healthy dessert table ideas for not more than $150?
Throwing a kid’s party can be a lot of fun, but it can also be expensive. One area where you can cut costs is on the dessert table. With a little creativity, you can put together a beautiful and delicious dessert table for your kid’s party for $150 or less.
Tips on How To Set Up Dessert Table for Kid’s Party
1. Plan Ahead
The first step to putting together a budget-friendly dessert table is to plan ahead. Decide what kind of desserts you want to serve and make a list of ingredients. This will help you avoid impulse buys at the grocery store.
2. Choose Simple Desserts
You don’t need to go all out on fancy desserts to impress your guests. Kids will love simple desserts like cupcakes, cookies, and brownies. You can even get creative with your decorations. For example, you could use animal crackers to decorate cupcakes or sprinkles to make cookies look like stars.
3. Use Seasonal Ingredients
Seasonal ingredients are often more affordable than out-of-season ingredients. For example, you could use strawberries in the spring and summer or apples in the fall and winter.
4. Make it DIY
Create a dessert table according to a theme that your child would love
Making your own desserts is a great way to save money. There are plenty of easy recipes online that you can follow. You can also get your kids involved in the baking process.
5. Decorate with Handmade Items
You don’t need to spend a lot of money on decorations. You can make your own banners, tablecloths, and centerpieces using simple materials like paper and fabric.
6. Shop Around for Deals
Don’t just go to the first grocery store you see. Shop around for the best prices on ingredients. You can also check out discount stores and online retailers.
7. Use What You Have
Take a look around your kitchen and see what you already have that you can use for the dessert table. You might be surprised at what you find!
8. Don’t Forget the Drinks
No party is complete without drinks! You can serve a variety of beverages, such as lemonade, punch, and water. You can also make your own sparkling water by adding a little fruit juice.
Setting Up The Dessert Table
Not only do you need to get all the yummy treats for the party, you’ll also have to set up the dessert table and display all the goodies. Think of a theme that your child likes (such as their favourite cartoon, animal, sport, storybook, or nursery rhyme) so it’ll be easy to piece everything together. Use a reusable or disposable table cloth from a FairPrice supermarket as a canvas for you to stick decorations or hang balloons from.
Keep your display symmetrical and play with heights to save space and add dimensions to the whole look.
Flowers can really brighten up the look of your dessert table
Some FairPrice outlets even offer cool DIY balloon bouquets or arches for that festive touch; or fresh flowers will also add pops of colour to your dessert table. You can also grab a bunch of your kid’s toys or storybooks that suit the party theme and arrange them on the dessert table. There isn’t really a right or wrong way in setting up a dessert table and it’s really up to your own creativity and imagination, so remember to just have fun!
Ideas for Busy Mums
So here are some suggestions of and some delicious and easy-to-make recipes using simple ingredients, and healthy but affordable snacks you can easily grab off the shelves at any FairPrice supermarket in Singapore.
Choose cookie cutter shapes according to your party theme
1. Cookie-cutter sandwiches
What you need:
- FairPrice Wholemeal Bread ($1.65)
- Peter Pan Reduced Fat Peanut Butter – Creamy/ Crunchy ($4.45)
- Glory Nyonya Kaya – Less Sugar ($3.30)
- Delhaize Bio Organic Hazelnut Spread ($6.50)
- Streamline Reduced Sugar Jams – Blackcurrant/ Fruits of the Forest ($3.95)
What to do: Using the cookie cutters, press out fun shapes from the bread and serve it with different spreads — or you might also want to switch the sweet bread spreads for savoury options such as egg mayo, chicken mayo or tuna mayo.
Yoghurt, muesli and fresh berries go very well together
2. Muesli and cereal bar bites
What you need:
- F&N Alive Bars – Oat & Chocolate/ Mixed Fruits Nut/ Strawberry & Yoghurt ($5.95 for 6 bars)
- Alpen Light Cereal Bars – Summer Fruits/ Cherry Bakewell/ Blueberry & Cranberry/ Chocolate & Fudge ($6.50 for 5 bars)
- Yogood Yoghurt Coated Muesli Bars – Strawberry/ Blueberry Cranberry/ Cranberry Mango/ Wildberry/ ($6.25 for 6 bars)
- Marigold Low Fat Yoghurt – Natural ($6.25)
- US Driscoll Raspberries ($6.95)
What to do: Cut each muesli or cereal bar into smaller pieces and place them into individual muffin liners or small plastic bowls, then top them with low fat yoghurt and any fresh berries of your choice.
Lightly dust some icing sugar on top of store-bought muffins for that polished look
3. Baked goodies
What you need:
- Sunshine Little Buns – Chocolate/ Red Bean/ Custard ($2.20 for 8 pieces)
- Top One Muffins – Chocolate/ Vanilla/ Blueberry/ Banana ($2.30 for 2 pieces)
- Sunshine Enriched California Raisin Buns ($2.30 for 6 pieces)
- SIS Icing Sugar ($1.95)
What to do: Place the buns, muffins or rolls onto decorative trays, lightly dust on some icing sugar on top and display them alongside some cute toys so they are Instagram-worthy.
This refreshing treat is easy to make and tasty to eat!
4. Fruit skewers
What you need:
- USA/ South America Blueberries ($2.50),
- Cape Red Seedless Grapes ($2.85)
- S&W Sweet 16 Pineapple ($2.85)
- Australian Sunkist Navel Oranges ($5.95)
- US Driscoll Raspberries ($6.95)
- HomeProud Bamboo Skewers ($1.30)
- other fruits of your choice
What to do: Cut the fruits into bite-sized pieces, or use cookie cutters for more fun shapes, then stick them through bamboo skewers to create a refreshing rainbow delight!
Banana ice cream is not only tasty and easy to make, but it’s healthy too!
5. Banana and Strawberry Ice Cream
What you need:
- Ripe bananas
- Hershey’s Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder ($6.62)
- Emborg Frozen Strawberries ($6.00)
What to do: Blend some frozen bananas and strawberries to create a delicious cool treat and add a few spoons of cocoa powder into the blender for a chocolatey flavour — or lightly dust it on top of the banana ice cream for that finished look.
For more tips for parents, visit FairPrice Online now at: www.fairprice.com.sg/wps/portal/fp/foodTips/Tips_For_Parents
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