Turn a watermelon into a work of art you can eat! This fruit butterfly is perfect for summer parties, cookouts, or any time you want a snack that’s as fun to make as it is to eat.
Recipe Details
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Servings: 1
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- 4 triangle-shaped watermelon slices (cut from a round slice, about 1 inch thick)
- 1 cherry
- 3 large grapes
- 6 blueberries
- 2 additional grapes (for wing decorations)
- 1 cherry stem (for antennae)
- 1 toothpick
Allergy notes: No common allergens. Toothpick is sharp, so remove before serving to young children.
Substitutions:
- No cherries? Use a large raspberry or a round grape for the head.
- No blueberries? Try sliced strawberries, raspberries, or mandarin orange segments on the wings.
- Any combination of colorful fruit works for the wing decorations. Use what you have.
What You Do
- Build the body. Place one cherry at the top of a plate for the head. Line up three grapes in a row below it to form the body.
- Add the wings. Arrange four watermelon triangles around the body, two on each side, with the pointed ends facing outward. Angle them like butterfly wings, upper wings tilted up and lower wings tilted down.
- Decorate the wings. Cut three grapes and six blueberries in half. Arrange the halves on top of the watermelon wings in a pattern. These are the butterfly’s wing spots.
- Make the antennae. Use a toothpick to push an extra cherry stem into the top of the cherry head, curving it outward.
Grownup help needed: An adult should cut the watermelon slices and handle the toothpick. Kids can arrange all the fruit on the plate.
