Make these fun and simple Strawberry snake kabobs for the kids. Strawberry Snakes are a way to make eating fruit fun.
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Strawberry Snake Kabobs
Fun with food is one of my favorite things to create and make for the kids. Kids typically love fruit, but why not make this healthy fruit snack more fun by making fun ideas with fruit like this fruit snake, this Shovel and Pail Watermelon and Fruit Salad, Make your own dehydrated fruit and have fruit to snack on all week long, or make this Cupid’s arrow watermelon and strawberry snack.
Ingredients you’ll need:
five or more strawberries for each kabob
one mini marshmallow for each kabob – divided
Blue frosting
Equipment Needed
Skewers
Pairing Knife
How to Make Snake Fruit Kabobs
Place the washed strawberries on the skewer with the narrow end going on first.
Butt the next strawberry up against that strawberry so the two straight cuts are up against each other
Repeat with one or more sets of strawberries
Leave a spot for the head at the top. About 1&1/2 in.
Take a strawberry and place it on a cutting board.
Cut a V in the end for the mouth. Keep the piece that you cut out for the tongue.
Place this strawberry onto the tip of the skewer.
Place the tongue you cut out of the strawberry onto the skewer sticking out of the snake’s mouth, with the V pointing out.
Cut your mini marshmallows in half and place them on the head of the fruit snake.
Finish the fruit snake kabob off with a blue dot on the marshmallows for the eyes.
Expert Tips
Look for snake-shaped heads and sort those out to use as your snack heads. Snake’s heads come in narrow rounded shapes and others are wider diamond-shaped heads
Variation
Place your strawberries all going in one direction, with the straight end sliding onto the skewer first. Either way is fun and simple to make.
FAQs
Seedless grapes, cubed melon, blackberries, raspberries, orange slices, and strawberries are great ideas for fruit kabobs.
Make Ahead and Storage
I would not recommend making a strawberry fruit kabob too long in advance. Strawberries are one of the most perishable fruits that don’t last long, even in the refrigerator.
Make this fruit kabob the day you intend on serving it
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Printable Instructions
Easy Strawberry Snake Fruit Kabobs
Equipment
- skewer
- pairing knife
Ingredients
- 5 strawberries rinsed with stems removed
- 1 mini marshmallow
- .5 oz. blue cookie icing
Instructions
- Slide a strawberry with narrow side first down the skewer
- Butt another strawberry against that one
- Do that one more time
- Cut a V in the end for the mouth. Keep the piece that you cut out for the tongue.
- Slide that strawberry onto the skewer with the narrow end facing outward
- Insert the piece you cut out of the strawberry as the forked tongue
- Cut the mini marshmallow in half
- Place the two halves onto the snake head and add a dot of blue icing onto each one
- If there is room, you can Insert more strawberries on the back side of the skewer
I love this idea anxious to try it at daycare with kids
What fun, delicious looking skewers!