Make snack time fun with this healthy fruit snack that will surely be a big hit. The kids will enjoy eating all the colors of fruit on their cantaloupe art palette fruit snack. Or, let the kids get crafty in the kitchen with this fun food art.
We love having fun with fruit at our house. In the past, we’ve made fun food art like strawberry snake kabobs and pumpkin-shaped fruit cups, and fruit cup reindeer noses. Recently, I’ve decided that I need to create some more fun ideas for kids in the kitchen, and I started with this cantaloupe fruit art palette.
Jids will have a blast eating their fruits and veggies when you display them in a fun way. Even the pickiest of eaters will have fun with this colorful fruit display. You can change the fruit to any other fruit you think your kids will enjoy. It’s easy to customize this fun with food, fruit, or snacks for whatever your kids love to eat.
What You’ll Love About this Kid’s Fruit Snack
- It’s easily customizable to suit your kid’s needs
- This fruit snack is easy to make
- It’s a healthy, sweet treat
Ingredients
Base:
Ripened Cantaloupe
Toppings:
Fruit – blackberry, blueberry, seedless green grape, raspberry, strawberry, clementine orange, pineapple
Whipped topping
Art Brush:
Celery with leaves intact
How to Make an Art Palette Fruit Snack for Kids
Slice down the side of the cantaloupe, avoiding the core.
Pick a slice from your sliced cantaloupe you think is a good base, and carve out a place where the palm would go on an art palette.
Use a fruit corer or something similar to core out a circle where the thumb would go on an art palette.
Set your cantaloupe palette onto a serving plate and arrange fruit around the palette to represent paint colors.
Starting at the bottom of the palette, add a blackberry, blueberry, green grape, red raspberry, strawberry slice, clementine slice, and pineapple chunk
Finally, add a little whipped cream at the top.
Leaving some leaves intact, trip the celery stick so that it fits across the cantaloupe slice
Place the celery slice at an angle
Expert Tips
I like to arrange the fruit with similar shades next to each other, but also to have contrasting shades for lots of color
Fruit by Color
Blue and Purple Fruits: Blackberries, blueberries, red seedless grapes
Green Fruit: Green seedless grapes, kiwi, pear, lime, pears, green apples
Red Fruit: Raspberries, strawberries, cherries, watermelon, apples
Orange Fruit: Nectarines, Peaches, Oranges, kumquats
Yellow Fruit: Banana, lemon, pineapple, mango, golden kiwi
What to Serve With
- Pumpkin Spice Fruit Dip
- Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
- Firecracker Hot Dogs
- Hermit Crab Hot Dog Snack
- Grilled Cheese
- Sandwich
- Dried Fruit
- Fruit Juice
Storing:
This snack would be best served immediately
More Fun Fruit Ideas You’ll Enjoy
Serving Size
This recipe is for one fruit snack, but you could easily get four or more snacks from one cantaloupe, one bag of celery, and fruit toppings.
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Printable Instructions
Art Palette Fruit Snack
Ingredients
Base
- 1 slice Cantaloupe Base:
Fruit toppings
- 1 blackberry
- 1 blueberry
- 1 seedless green grape
- 1 raspberry
- 1 strawberry slice
- 1 clementine orange slice
- 1 pineapple chunk
- .5 oz. Whipped topping
Art Brush
- 1 stalk Celery with leaves intact
Instructions
- Slice down the side of the cantaloupe, avoiding the core.
- Pick a slice from your sliced cantaloupe you think is a good base, and carve out a place where the palm would go on an art palette.
- Use a fruit corer or something similar to core out a circle where the thumb would go on an art palette.
- Set your cantaloupe palette onto a serving plate and arrange fruit around the palette to represent paint colors.
- Starting at the bottom of the palette, add a blackberry, blueberry, green grape, red raspberry, strawberry slice, clementine slice, and pineapple chunk
- Finally, add a little whipped cream at the top
- Leaving some leaves intact, trip the celery stick so that it fits across the cantaloupe slice
- Place the celery slice at an angle
- I like to arrange the fruit with similar shades next to each other, but also to have contrasting shades for lots of color.
