Cinnamon pears.
Watermelon rind pickles.
Root beer jelly (or other favorite soda).
Koolaid pickles.
Different flavors of applesauce (i.e. strawberry, blueberry, pear sauce, etc.)

All of the above can be done with only BWB.
Not sure if you have a pressure canner, but if you do, letting the kids make their own combos of veggies is fun.

Process for the vegetable with the longest time.

Glad to hear they're having fun and learning about where food comes from at the same time.

Deanna

All going to depend on what your kids like to eat.

Ours are grown and have kids of their own and they are much more tolerant of the kids food likes and dislikes than Grandma and I were when raising the kids. We are from the "eat what's put in front of you" generation. :)

But mixed fruit cocktail is always popular with the grandkids as is Grandma's mixed berry syrup on chocolate chip pancakes (yeah we compromise sometimes). Raspberry applesauce is a frequent request and they will eat all the spaghetti with meatless tomato sauce (the NCHFP recipe) you can make.

None of them like vegetables - a real sore point we have with their parents - but they do like the Glazed Carrots recipe in the BBB and they will eat winter squash if we tell them it is pumpkin and put cinnamon and brown sugar on it.

Dave

My kids LOVE my canned peaches and pears. They are a winter staple! I'd also can mandarin oranges, if I could buy them fresh locally. Applesauce is another huge hit with the kids, as is apple pie filling. I serve the latter in crisps or on top of vanilla ice cream. And, of course, my kids love jam :)

Apple butter is the big favorite here, as are most jams. Paradise jelly, but even just apple-cranberry jelly. DS loves all sorts of pickles (except bread and butter) and salsa though DD won't touch them. But she is crazy about the applesauce, esp. "pink" (cranberry) kind. She also likes canned peaches but since I can buy those inexpensively, I just used all the local peaches I bought for jam.

My kids know where their food comes from (though we don't like to talk about the animals while we're eating meat). Lots comes from our back yard. But they're also used to me canning - I bought some jelly jars last week, we were driving home and had some changes in altitude, heard pinging from the back cargo area. DD said "That sounds familiar" - I started laughing and DS told her it was the jars sealing!

Thank you for all the great ideas. I am trying to branch out each year of canning to try more things. This year added pickles (Bread and Butter, German Sweet Pickle and Icicle Pickles) Raspberry jam and Apple Pie Jam and Salsa. I have a batch of Roasted Garlic Tomato Soup in the pressure cooker now. (the Fourth batch!) My kids had it tonight with grilled cheese and loved it. All I heard was YUM the whole way through dinner , which was a TREAT!!

I am intrigued with your ideas of root beer jelly-had never heard of that! Also, of the idea of flavored applesauce. And Dave, the idea of mixed berry syrup, too. What fun ideas.

Oh, yes, and cinnamon pears! My grandma used to can applesauce with cinnamon red hot candies. Dare I ask if that is safe?? I am heading to my Ball book and my So Easy to Preserve book to research.
Meg

My DD is mostly a fruit fan. She also loves vanilla, so I throw a splash of vanilla extract in lots of my lite syrups (she doesn't like the black specks from vanilla beans).

I've also found that if I come up with goofy names for things, she likes them better. For instance, we call canned peaches "Sunshine in a Jar", and we call strawberry-applesauce "Strawple Sauce".

Peaches and Pears - I can them both diced and sliced. Depends on my DD's mood as to which jar she requests. I've thought of canning them together - but I can't get the bulk canning boxes from the orchard at the same time.

Applesauce and apple-fruit blends - in particular apple-peach, apple-pear, apple-strawberry. I also will finely dice my apples and use some caramelized brown sugar for a chunky caramel applesauce. (I throw seasonal fruit in the freezer for when apple season arrives - then I can make the blends.)

Peach Sauce - like applesauce, but made from peaches

Honey Crimson Grapefruit - recipe in Ball Book, but grapefruit sections canned in cranberry juice and honey

Strawberries packed in simple syrup

She also likes my jams. Especially my fruit combo jams.

DD also likes a lot of the soups I pressure can. I make a pumpkin bisque that she loves.

Don't forget salsa soup (just thin out Annie's salsa after opening)! Though maybe not for really little kids. My almost-teen DS loves this!

My kids love pickles... they eat them by the ton so I can lots of dills and lime pickles (they're not fond of bread and butter types). Peaches and applesauce, as you have mentioned are also popular. And my kids love salsa! I use Annie's recipe, but don't make it super hot. Jam is good--they really get a kick out of eating jam that came from the fruit they picked. We also branched out this year and made BBQ sauce; my kids like to dip things into it, so we decided to try to can our own. Haven't opened them yet, though :)