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Creepy Crawly Fruit Snack
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Ingredients
- strawberries
- grapes or balled melon
- toothpicks
- 1 tbsp. mini chocolate chips
Directions
- Cut grapes in half.
- If you're using melon, scoop out grape-sized spheres.
- Assemble either caterpillars or ladybugs by attaching fruit with toothpicks using the chips for the spots and eyes.
Critter fruit
By Ashley Liebig on Tuesday, September 07, 2010
I wish I had a camera when my 3 year old saw these. She thought it was the funniest thing she had ever seen. Took her a while to want to eat them though because she made "friends" with the little bugs first!