Summer’s almost here, and you know what that means? You’ll have hungry kids at home ALL DAY. But don’t worry… you don’t have to resort to the boxed fruit snacks just yet. Skip the Gushers, the Fruit Roll-Ups, and the fruit snacks (for now), and make this healthy and absolutely adorable butterfly fruit snack instead.
You can put it together in just a few minutes, and it’ll put the biggest smile on your kids’ faces! Plus, if you want to incorporate a bit of learning into your day, it’s a fun activity to go along with our butterfly homeschool unit study or our heart butterfly craft.
Ingredients for Making Fruit Butterflies
You can probably see from the picture everything that you need to make these cute butterfly snacks, but here’s a list of ingredients, just in case:
- Bananas – sliced, to make the butterfly’s body
- Strawberries – halved, used to make the butterfly wings
- Candy eyes
- Rosemary twigs – for the butterfly’s antennae
How to Make Healthy Butterfly Snacks:
Step One: Slice the banana. You’ll need 12 slices for 3 butterfly snacks, and you can usually get this many slices out of one single large banana.
Step 2: Halve the strawberries. You’ll need 4 strawberry halves per butterfly to make the wings.
Step 3: Remove small pieces from the rosemary twigs to make the butterfly antennae. Place them above the banana slice that forms the head.
Step 4: Add two candy eyes per butterfly to the head. Your cute snack is ready!
Okay, so perhaps the candy eyes aren’t exactly nutritious, but the other ingredients are. This butterfly-shaped snack is a total win-win for kids. Strawberries are little vitamin C powerhouses, which is awesome for keeping the kids’ immune systems in tip-top shape, not to mention they’re like nature’s candy but with a bonus of good-for-you antioxidants. And bananas? They’ve got potassium to help their hearts stay strong and their muscles working right. Plus, they both keep those tiny bellies full longer since they’re packed with fiber.
If you don’t want to include the candy eyes, though, you can always replace them with blueberries or small bits off of blackberries. Make sure your little one doesn’t take a bite of the rosemary. It’s taste-safe, of course, but fresh rosemary springs aren’t that tasty unless they’re incorporated in a dish like these rosemary and thyme potatoes.
Fruit Butterfly Snack
Ingredients
- 1 large banana sliced
- 6 large strawberries halved
- 6 candy eyes
- 6 rosemary sprigs
Instructions
- Slice a large banana into 12 slices.
- Halve 6 large strawberries.
- Arrange 4 banana slices and 4 strawberry halves to make the shape of a butterfly.
- Add the candy eyes and rosemary sprigs to the head to make the eyes and antennae.
- Repeat with your remaining banana slices and strawberry halves to make more butterfly snacks.
Nutrition
