Protein Balls for Kids

Protein balls for kids are the perfect healthy snack, full of healthy ingredients. They’re so simple that your kids can even make them.

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I’ve been trying to make my snacks lately instead of buying prepackaged snacks and chips from the store.  We’re gone a lot on the weekends to lacrosse tournaments and soccer games and I always pack our lunch and snacks.  

These were a hit, and all were gone before the end of the day. I had seen several recipes for protein balls, or some people call them protein energy balls, on Pinterest and I figured I could do this myself. I gathered my ingredients and got to work. These are kid friendly and so much better than a sugary cookie.

No Bake Protein Balls Recipe

Most of my popular recipes are my blog are desserts so I bet you’re thinking this is weird to see something kind of healthy!! These are high in protein and low in sugar.

Snacks can get so expensive at the grocery store and my New Year’s resolution is to save more money at the grocery store so that means making a menu and making more things from scratch.

I’ve been making homemade protein snack packs for our sports games we go to because the store bought ones are so expensive and these are perfect to add to that!

Ingredients for kids protein balls

Oatmeal- The old fashioned oats is the kind you want to use for this recipe and DO NOT COOK IT! I had someone rate my recipe one star because they cooked the oatmeal first! This recipe is no bake.

Ground Flax seed–  I just bought flax seed and ground it up in my coffee grinder.  This has a lot of fiber.  You can also sprinkle on fruit or add to smoothies.

Honey

Sweet Chocolate Chips- Mini chocolate chips work best for this.

Toasted coconut-  You can add untoasted coconut to this recipe, but the tasted of the toasted coconut is great in this recipe. Here’s how to toast coconut. It doesn’t take long and you just toast it on your cooktop.

Peanut Butter- You can use chunky or creamy peanut butter. Almond butter works too. In fact, whatever nut butter you have in the pantry will work.

Chia Seeds–  This is a super food and has a ton of protein and fiber!

How to make Protein Balls for Kids

Now here’s the easy part and you should get your family involved. Kids love to get their hands dirty!

Mix thoroughly with your hands and form into bite sized balls.  I ended up with twenty, but you may have a little more or less depending on the size you make.  I stored in the refrigerator until we were ready to leave for our day.

Note:  I eyeball honey and peanut butter because I don’t like adding those ingredients to measuring cups.  Trying to get it out, to add to my bowl, is such a mess!

This is a easy basic recipe.  My neighbor added more chia seeds into hers and vanilla protein powder.  It’s up to you! Mini M&M’s are great instead of chocolate chips too.

More snack recipes you may enjoy.

• Banana Bread
• Zucchini Muffins
• Cinnamon Honey Popcorn

Reminder: If you make one of my recipes, it would be GREAT if you could leave any feedback in the comment section and rate it for other readers who are looking for something new to make.