3 Super Simple Tricks for Making Fruit Fun!
Hello and happy happy! Today I am going to show you how a bit of simple food presentation can transform a meal or snack for your little one. And it isn’t rocket science and it doesn’t have to take long. I promise!
Below are some before and after snaps of prepping an easy fruit salad. If you struggle to get your little one to try new things, why not try something a bit different. This type of food prep can be done using fruit, veg, savoury and sweet food. Anything you like really! Check out some other fun fruit inspiration here: Watermelon Windmills, Kiwi Cars and Fruity Fish and Chips.
So below I use strawberries, grapes and blueberries. Here are three simple tricks you can use to present fruit and veg in appealing ways for toddlers:
1 –Kebab them. So using colourful, fun food picks, create mini fruit kebabs. B loves these.
2 – Flowers. It isn’t difficult to arrange anything into a flower really. As you can see below, this flower isn’t perfect. But it has maximum impact when presented to a toddler!
3 – Snakes. Again, any fruit or veg can be arranged to make a “snake”. I used an edible black food pen to draw the eyes on the grape snake. You can get them online for a couple of quid. And you can make fun snakes out of veggies too ;0)
These literally took minutes to make 🙂 Have fun!
Remember to PIN it and save it for later 🙂
Love it…except it\’s almost too pretty to eat! LOL! Notice that I said \”almost\” because I can devour some fruit and veggies (even when I feel guilty for destroying the gorgeous display). Funny thing, well displayed fruit causes me to eat more because I try to balance (or cover) what I\’ve eaten. LOL! #bigpinklink
thank you for looking 🙂
Fabulous ideas as usual!! We tried fruit kebabs with ours when we were having a bbq, and we said that they were having grown up food, like ours-they went down a storm! I will have to give flowers and snakes a go! Thanks for sharing with #bigpinklink!
thank you 🙂 pleased the fruit kebabs went down well. anything \”different\” tends to work !
Fabulous ideas as usual!! We tried fruit kebabs with ours when we were having a bbq, and we said that they were having grown up food, like ours-they went down a storm! I will have to give flowers and snakes a go! Thanks for sharing with #bigpinklink!
i love making creative things with food for my two sometimes, it can really help them to eat what is in front of them. Love your snakes and the flower x
thank you :)x
What lovely ideas! I love food art and whenever I have time I try to come up with interesting ideas to try out on my little ones (aged 2 and 4). I love that these are so simple but really effective.
ah thanks for taking a look! x
Loving the snake! Edible pens, never heard of, this is something that needs to be in my cupboard for the future! #bigpinklink
edible pens are awesome!
My two have always been fruit bats so there\’s been no need to make fruit fun as they always love it, however it\’s presented! We do love a fruit kebab though! #bestandworst
to be honest my boy loves his fruit too – I think it is more to amuse me haha!
Love these, especially the snakes – so cute! Thanks for joining in with #CookBlogShare
thank you 🙂
The flowers look wonderful. Thanks for the wonderful fruit ideas. Pinning. #MiniMeals.
ohh thank you 🙂 any pins always welcome – I\’ve just started with pinterest 🙂 x
Have pinned these, Emma. Great ways to present fruit 🙂 #MinisMeals
Aww thank you 🙂 I\’ll be sure to follow u on Pinterest if I\’m not already !
What a lovely way to serve fruit. I wish I was more creative with displaying food! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
ah you should have a go – even things that don\’t resemble any animal go down well – monsters 😉 x
we like to do funny fruit faces too – as they get older it is a good activity to get them used to using a knife to cut fruit – under supervision of course!)
#toddlerapprovedtuesday
yes def! my boy loves getting involved more now!
Love them – especially the snakes 🙂 #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
thank you!
Great ideas, we used to do stuff like this all the time then I stopped I must get back into it! Its such fun
it makes cooking and prepping a bit more fun hehe!
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