Children Food: Fruit

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Cute Snack Idea: Hot air balloon

Hot air balloon

Have you spotted a hot air balloon in the air with your child this summer? Why not make one for lunch today?

Hot air balloon: The basket is a graham cracker, ropes are string cheese thinly cut, balloon circle is made from a banana cut in half lengthwise and made to look like a circle, interior is strawberries and celery. The clouds are cottage cheese and the people are carrots with raisins cut into fourths!

This snack really allows the fruits and veggies to be the star!

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Cute lunch Idea: Puppy Dog Wrap

Today I’ll be showing you a simple puppy lunch, and then a variety of other great snacks to make using a high protein, high fiber tortilla wrap. I’ve recently discovered these babies and have really enjoyed using them with my girls to make creative lunches. I’ve also enjoyed knowing that the girls are getting significantly more protein and fiber from the wraps than they would from two slices of traditional bread.

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Shrek snack for kids

Shrek Apple Snack

Meet Shrek! I did not realize this, but Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek 3 were some of the top grossing movie sales of all animated movies throughout the last 15 years. Shrek is much beloved, so we made him into a healthy snack.

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Bee Hive Fruit Snack

We have had record pollen counts here in Atlanta, GA with 8,164 particles of pollen per cubic meter of air!! There is yellow everywhere you look along with puffy eyes & sneezing! We thought this would be a good time to make a fun Bee Hive Fruit Snack and teach my 2 year old about bees! A great way to get your little picky eaters to eat some fruit for a after school snack!

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Easy Tree Snack for Kids

As we explored different trees outside and learned about the different parts of trees, I wanted the kids to be able to make their own models of a tree. To make it fun, we played with our food a bit and created this easy tree snack for kids.

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Frozen Yogurt Banana Split

Greek yogurt has a rich and creamy texture, and its tangy flavor gives this dessert the perfect combo of sweet and tart.

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Berry Ice Cream Napoleons

In this American twist on the classic French dessert, crispy puff pastry is layered with cool, creamy (red) strawberry ice cream and sits in a zingy homemade (blue) berry sauce. The star-themed presentation and color palette make this recipe a no-brainer for any patriotic celebration.

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Watermelon Pudding Cups

So since it's officially summertime I figured a watermelon flavored sweet was definitely needed! I've been on a search for watermelon flavored jell-o for ages and can never ever find it in stores. When I saw both watermelon and melon flavored jell-o recently in my local food store I knew it was a sign.

Although I would have rather tried making the pudding from real watermelon, my past experience with cooking this fruit made me realize that its flavor is usually best fresh so all the watermelony flavor comes though. (Here is a recipe for watermelon pudding from real watermelon in case you are interested!) But since this pudding is essentially from a box, it's also really simple to put together.

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DIY Mini Pancake Rainbow Brunch

And with summer has come the rainbow of delicious fresh fruit that’s now in season. Those beautiful colors have a way of making my day, and I somehow always return home from the market with more fruit than I (ahem) was planning to buy.

But beautiful fruit is meant to be celebrated, especially at breakfast! So for a fun brunch idea this summer, why not have a Mini Rainbow Pancake Brunch? It is so simple! Just make a batch of mini pancakes, top them with some yogurt and chopped fruit, and then drizzle with maple syrup. So easy, so tasty, and your friends and family will have a great time mixing and matching their own colorful creations.

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Cute Snack Idea: Sweet Baby Whale in a Blueberry Sea!

Sweet Baby Whale in a Blueberry Sea

A plum and some blueberries become an adorable whale snack for kids

Here’s another healthy summer snack that your kids are sure to enjoy! It was simple to put together and only used a couple ingredients. The kids just loved the water (blueberries) sprouting from the whale and it was so simple to do by using just a couple toothpicks. Here’s how I made this sweet little whale snack..

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Cute Snack Idea: A Sweet Little Starfish

Sweet Little Starfish

Three kinds of fruit plus a little creativity is all you need for this adorable summer snack recipe

This sweet little starfish snack was incredibly easy to make and it’s incredibly cute too! It’s a nice healthy snack and only takes a few ingredients—what’s better than that?! The kids thought this little starfish was so funny and they gobbled up every bite. This is how I made it..

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Summer Berry Trifle

Serving this traditional English dessert in a glass pedestal bowl shows off its impressive layers of ladyfingers, pudding, and colorful fruits. If you don't have one, a regular glass bowl will also do the trick.

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Honey-Lime Fruit Salad

This colorful fruit salad gets its punch from the great balance of tart fruits, lime juice, and bite-size pieces of sweet pound cake.

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Strawberry Rosebuds

For years, Fauna, Flora, and Merryweather retired their wands and hid their magic. But when the time to plan a fitting celebration for Aurora's sixteenth birthday drew near, the temptation to use them again proved too great. No doubt these gracious fairies would be willing to work their magic for another important occasion -- helping the princess transform the berries they asked her pick into delicious candy-coated rosebuds to present to the queen on Mother's Day.

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A Cute and Easy Summer Snack: Fruit Fish

Fruit Fish

Kids will love this refreshing summer snack made from delicious fresh fruit

This little fishie snack was thrown together for my kids in just a few short minutes. I make a lot of cute food for my kids, but they are still delighted every single time. This was no exception. It was a really easy snack to make and it’s definitely cute! Those are two things I love—quick to prepare and cute! Here are the instructions so you can make one too.

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Pear Penguins

A chocolate covered pear makes a frosty, sweet snack.

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Fruit Flowers

I love when food can be beautiful, fun, and delicious! Such is the case with our fruit bouquet! We skewered the fruit to add to our collection of kebobs and then were torn between wanting to stare at our creations, or eat it up! The boys chose eat it up almost immediately.

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Apple Wedges for Dessert

If our kids always ate fruit for dessert, they would be so much healthier! Fruit, with its natural sweetness, low calories, and being full of nutrients, are just the desserts they need. And if you serve fruit for dessert often enough, in lieu of sugar laden processed desserts, the fruit will be soon be plenty sweet for them.

Now we did use a tiny bit of chocolate, but even that contains some beneficial antioxidants. So what are you waiting for? Your kids want some dessert tonight!

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Fruit Salad Ice Cream Cone

Fruit Salad Ice Cream Cone ~ Dressing up fruit salad, a picnic side dish standard, with some crafty fun in an ice cream cone.

Before you tell me I’m mad in the head, which by the way you would be right, I will say it before you can,“This is not a recipe, but merely a presentation idea”.

That being said, I set out to get crafty and re-fashion a picnic standard, the fruit salad, into something fun and stylie (real word if you play scrabble with me). Determined to dump the de rigueur watermelon bowl, I needed something simple and picnic friendly.

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Ernie and Bert Fruit Snack!

Ernie and Bert Fruit Snack

We thought it would be fun to make Ernie and Bert out of fruit. We used 1 clementine, 1 banana, raisins, 2 mini marshmallows, and 1 red fruit roll up.

This is what we used to make 2 of these. Peel the clementine and save the peel. Separate it in half and put them on each plate. Peel the banana and cut in half. Place those on the plates.

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