Apple Wedges butterfly

If your children hate fruits then add tiny bits of chocolates, peanut butter or cream cheese.
Butterfly apple wedges for kids:)

Apple wedges for butterfly wings

Banana pieces for body

1 tsp chocolate paste to cover body

2 mini chocolate for eyes

Fruits car

Watermelon is a summer favorite fruit. It is healthy and delicious. We made this toy car with this fruit.

Ingredients:
Watermelon for body
Banana pieces for wheels
Banana skin for number plate
Blue marshmallow for eyes look

Sesame street fruit snacks

Kids love characters and it is a great way to encourage healthy foods using these characters. We tried to make Elmo and big bird fruit snack out of an apple, mango, banana, carrot and raisins.

 
For Elmo:
Half sliced apple for face
Cheese for Eyes
Raisins for pupils
Carrot for nose
Dark part of apple skin for mouth

For Big Bird:
Mango for face and beak
Bananas for Eyes
Raisins for pupils
small carrot for tongue

Phineas and Ferb snack

Phineas and ferb characters are fun and healthy snack made out of fruits and pancake.

Ingredients:
1 small cooked pancake
Small pieces of banana
1/2 Kiwi fruit
Small piece of apple skin
Few mini chocolate chips


For Phineas
Body - We cut the pancake in a triangular shape.
Hair- Used scrap skin of an apple
Eyes- Round pieces of banana
Ear- A small piece of pancake
Pupils- Mini chocolate chips

For Ferb
Body-We cut pancake in a retangular shape.
Hair- Half cut kiwi fruit
Nose, Ear- Small pieces of pancake
Eyes-Round pieces of banana
Pupils-Mini chocolate chips

Fruits Flower

Children will eat more fruits as long as it looks good. They eat nearly twice as much of the "fun and attractive fruit" even they know plain fruits and decorated ones taste same.

Today we made a papaya and grapes flower.

Chocolate covered banana with nuts

 First you need to freeze banana for sometime. We inserted half  banana with stick and placed in freezer for an  hour. Then dipped the banana in semi sweet melted chocolate and rolled in nuts. You can also dip in yogurt and roll in topping of your choice.

 

Topping of our bananas were almonds, walnuts and cashew nuts.

Other toppings that kids like are  coconuts, peanuts, peanut butter, almond butter, yogurt, pecans etc.

Fruit Tower

We made fun fruits snack today. We sliced an apple and then stacked banana and strawberries.