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FRUIT & VEGGIE FUN!
BUTTERFLY BITES #1
Put out apple slices, mini carrots, pretzel sticks and raisins or dried cranberries. Have kids use apple slices for the wings, carrot for the body and pretzel sticks for antennae. Decorate with raisins. Photo by KidActivities
BUTTERFLY BITES #2
Ingredients:
Stalks of celery, Twist pretzels, Pretzel pieces, Raisins and Spreadable cheddar, any cream cheese or peanut butter
Directions:
Wash celery and cut in half crosswise. Fill each celery piece with 1-tablespoon cheddar cheese, cream cheese or peanut butter. Add two pretzel twists for wings. Use pretzel pieces for antennae and raisins for decoration. Eat your butterfly before it files away!
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SUNSHINE or FLOWER -which ever you choose! Slice some oranges and strawberries! It's that easy...Kids can build on this healthy snack and add blueberries, banana slices, raisins or dried cranberries for facial features!
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FRUIT ON A STICK
Cut up a variety of fruit such as...
Apples, bananas, kiwis, mango and whole grapes.
Thread them onto a skewer for a delicious summer time treat.
Add a few pieces of marshmallows between the fruit.
CREAMY FRUIT DIP
Ingredients:
• 1 jar marshmallow cream
• 8 ounce bar of cream cheese (softened)
• Sliced fruit ( Strawberries, melons, cantaloupe, etc.)
Mix the marshmallow cream and cream cheese well.
Take favorite fruit and dip into the cream mixtu--or serve with fruit on a stick.
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FROZEN FRUIT KABOBS
1/4 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons orange blossom honey
16 medium strawberries, hulled
16 (2-inch) chunks fresh pineapple cubes
2 large bananas, peeled and sliced crosswise into 16 pieces
1/4 cup unsweetened, shredded coconut
1/4 cup ground or finely shredded chocolate
- Mix the orange juice with the honey in a large bowl.
- Add all the fruit and toss together with a spoon to completely coat the fruit.
- Skewer the fruit in any order that you like on 4 separate skewers.
- Roll the skewered fruit in the ground coconut and chocolate.
- You can mix the coconut with the chocolate or keep them separate.
- You may need to use your fingers to help coat the fruit.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Lay the skewered fruit out on the baking sheet and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap.
- Freeze the fruit until completely firm.
- Serve frozen --Serves 4
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FRUIT BURRITOES
To make 4 fruit burritos:
4 6-inch tortillas
4 TBS peanut butter
1 banana, sliced
4 strawberries, sliced
1 peach, peeled & sliced (remove pit)
1/4 cup blueberries
4 TBS vanilla yogurt
- Spread about 1 TBS peanut butter over each tortilla.
- Place fruit slices down center of each burrito.
- Drizzle about 1 TBS vanilla yogurt over fruit. Kids love to design & roll their own burrito.
- Roll up the tortilla, burrito-style (fold up one side, tuck under fruit, fold up bottom, then roll the other side).
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ORANGE SIPPER
Using a knife or the tip of a potato peeler, poke a hole about one third of the way through an orange.
Insert a plastic straw into the hole.
When thirsty, suck the orange juice out of the orange.
(You may need to "massage" the orange before you start)
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MAGICAL LAYERED JUICE
Ingredients:
1/4 cup chilled fruit nectar--apricot or peach
1/4 cup fruit punch drink
6 oz. glass
Pour fruit nectar into glass.
Tilt the glass and SLOWLY add the fruit punch.
Do not stir.
Makes one serving
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RAINBOW THEMED SNACKS are fun in warm weather! Click Here for RAINBOW THEME-Snacks are near the page bottom.
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