To design multi-sensory food packaging tailored to children at different stages of cognitive development and enhance their emotional engagement with the packaging, children’s specific needs regarding food packaging are systematically investigated by elucidating the connection between embodied cognition and multi-sensory packaging design based on embodied cognition theory and through questionnaire surveys and case analysis. Building upon this foundation, the Analytic Hierarchy Process is employed to construct a demand analysis model, clarifying the weights of each design element across different demand levels, thereby proposing a multi-sensory packaging design strategy for children. Subsequently, the feasibility of the strategy is validated through design practice and evaluation. The strategy is then optimized based on the weights derived from the model, and finally, the packaging design is completed. Exploring multi-sensory children’s food packaging from an embodied cognition perspective contributes to enhancing the added value of packaging, deepening understanding of the interactive relationship between children and packaging, and providing theoretical foundations and innovative approaches for related design practices.