fun fruit salad

Materials:
a variety of fruit
knife (for you, not the kids)
cookie cutters
LOTS of towels (to clean up!)
bowl

Activity:
Creating a fun fruit salad while cutting out fun shapes, discussing the colors, and enjoying the sweetness of the fruit! Easy!!!

With the summer season here upon us the selection of fresh fruit is delightful (and less expensive). My kids love making our weekly fruit salad. This week I decided to make it a little more fun, though!


Let the kids watch you cut out the different melons if you buy them whole. Mine love to still guess which color will be inside!
After you cut some thin slices of fruit ( seedless watermelon seems to work best for little ones), give each child a plate and a cookie cutter to start making shapes out of their fruit.


Tip: Give them separate fruit and you cut your own if you plan on serving this to anyone else.....they will lick the cutters and eat their stars and hearts.


Make a variety of shapes for fun. We cut our grapes into ovals, made balls from the honeydew, made shapes & letters from the watermelon, and triangles for the cantaloupe.
Enjoy eating and talking about shapes and colors for a few days!!