Family Night Treat
Tree of Life Fruit Skewers
Quick & EasyColorful fruit skewers stacked high like the Tree of Life — sweet, bright, and full of blessings! A quick and healthy treat kids can build all by themselves.
Makes
About 12 skewers
Time
15 minutes
Kid job
Kids can wash the fruit, slide pieces onto the skewers, and arrange them in a rainbow pattern.
What you need
- 12 wooden skewers (blunt ends are best for little hands)
- 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
- 2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
- 2 cups green grapes
- 2 cups blueberries
- 2 cups red grapes or raspberries
- Optional: vanilla Greek yogurt for dipping
How to make it
- 1Wash all the fruit and pat it dry with a paper towel.
- 2Set out the fruit in bowls so kids can see all the rainbow colors.
- 3Hold a skewer and slide on one piece of fruit at a time.
- 4Try building a pattern: red strawberry, yellow pineapple, green grape, blue blueberry, purple grape.
- 5Keep stacking until the skewer is almost full, leaving a little handle at the bottom.
- 6Lay the finished skewers on a platter in a fan shape so they look like a tree full of fruit.
- 7Serve plain or with a small bowl of vanilla yogurt for dipping.
Grown-ups: please help with the oven, the stove, and anything sharp.