Fruit Kebabs

Prep time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 0 minutes | Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1 cup grapes
  • 1 cup chopped melon
  • 1 cup strawberries
  • 1 whole banana

Live Well Tips

  • Learn how to create this delicious recipe with this video!
  • This goes great with yogurt, which adds protein and calcium to help build strong bones.
  • The many fruits in this recipe have lots of vitamin C, which keeps your immune system healthy and helps protect you from getting sick.
  • Try this recipe with any of your favorite fruits. Just chop them into bite-sized pieces and add them to the skewer.

Directions

  1. Wash hands with soap and water.
  2. Peel and cut the banana into bite-sized pieces.
  3. Wash the grapes and pick them off of the stems.
  4. Remove stems of the strawberries.
  5. Build kebabs by adding each of the four fruits to a skewer until the skewer is full.

Cook Together! Making Fruit Kebabs with Kids

Fruit kebabs are a fun, easy recipe for kids to help out. They can be a part of almost every step of the process. Ask your kids what their favorite fruits are and let them pick the ingredients for the recipe. Lots of colors makes this a fun and inviting snack for kids of all ages.

Easy Tasks

  • Gather ingredients and equipment.
  • Wash fresh foods, drain, and pat dry.
  • Peel banana.

Intermediate Tasks

  • Remove stems from strawberries.
  • Remove grapes from stems.

Difficult Tasks

  • Add fruits to the skewers.
  • Chop fruits with an age-appropriate safety knife.

Nutrition Facts

Serving size 1 cups: Calories–85; Protein–1g; Carbohydrate–21g; Total Fat–0g; Saturated Fat–0g; Cholesterol–0mg; Fiber–2g; Sodium–13mg; Vitamin C–35%; Vitamin A–10%; Iron–3%; Calcium–1%

Adapted from EatFresh.org