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    Home » Kids Recipes and Traditions

    FRUIT DECORATION IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY PARTIES

    Published: Jul 30, 2021 · Modified: May 2, 2022 by Laura Muller

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    Today I give you some easy and incredible cute Fruit Decoration Ideas for Birthday Parties. Edible animal fruit carves are super easy to make and are a great family activity. I have done a watermelon frog fruit carving, a T-Rex dinosaur crave, and even a furious open moth watermelon shark. These fruits decorated for children are ideal as centerpieces for birthdays parties, or family gatherings. What better centerpiece than one that can be eaten! Edible centerpieces are made using a melon or a watermelon creating fun fruit animal shapes that are filled with fruit. My kids loved helping make these decorated fruit recipes.

    Arreglo frutal - las recetas de Laura

    These fruit decorations ideas or fruit arrangements are the ideal centerpieces for your next piñata or children’s party. They are also a fun activity to do as a family. Here I also share links to make a Watermelon Dinosaur, watermelon shark, and chocolate-covered fruit flower arrangement.

    WHAT DO I NEED TO MAKE FRUIT DECORATION IDEAS

    To start you will need to choose which fruits you want to use for making animals with fruits. In addition to a good big knife to make the big cuts of the melon or watermelon and a small one, there are some knives that are special to cut the peel of the fruits, those help a lot. The cookie molds can be used to shape the figures of hearts, stars, circles … the metal cookie molds make it easier to get the fruit figures to cover with chocolate or decorate.

    • Fruits
    • Small fruit knife
    • Large butcher knife
    • Cookie molds or fruit sculpting molds
    melon decorado

    WITH WHICH FRUITS ARE BEST TO MAKE SIMPLE FRUIT DECORATION IDEAS

    The most popular fruits for carving or making edible fruit animals are watermelon, pineapple, cantaloupe, and strawberries. Depending on the figure you want to create, it will be the fruit you will need.

    For this Watermelon Frog edible Carving Fruit decoration you need

    frutas decoradas
    • Watermelon
    • Green and orange melon
    • Pineapple
    • Blue berries
    • 1 pair of radishes for the eyes

    This recipe to make fruit decoration for children is a fruit arrangement in the shape of a toad or frog filled with pineapple, melon, watermelon, and blueberries. This fruit centerpiece for piñatas or birthday parties is quite easy to make and inexpensive. Best of all, I guarantee that your children will eat all the fruits with watermelon frog carving.

    Arreglo frutal de melón - las recetas de Laura

    hOW TO CARVE A WATERMELON FROG

    For this frog-shaped melon or cantaloupe, I share the step-by-step instructions. I also have a video at the end that I think can help you a lot. Below I also share dinosaur figures made with watermelon. Chocolate-covered flower arrangement with strawberries and pineapple and a fun watermelon shark. Follow the instructions below to make a toad-shaped melon filled with fruit for fruit decoration ideas for birthday parties.

    • Take the melon, look for where the base of our toad will be, and make a cross cut so that our frog stays standing and does not roll.
    • The second step is to find where the mouth of our frog will be, using a marker, draw it, check that both corners of the mouth are at the same level, leaving a little less than a quarter of the melon.
    • Then remove all the seeds, after removing it we help ourselves with a spoon and remove as much of the meat from the melon.
    • Next using cooking molds cut some fruit in fun shappes. you can use watermelon, pineapple, melon, green melon, blue berries or any other fruit that you have handy.
    • To make the bulging eyes of the frog, from the melon that had cut from the base, we will cut the corner and then we cut it in half, resulting in two types of triangles that we will use as pronounced eyelids, we will complement for the eyes two slices of radish to make it white for the eyes and to make the eyes dark we use blue berries, finally we join it all with toothpicks and bury them in the upper part of our melon.
    • Our next step is to make the legs, and again we will use the part that we have left of the melon, we remove the meat of the melon so that only the rind remains and with the help of a knife we ​​make the shape of the legs, when we finish making our legs we put them on the sides of our frog shaped melon.
    • It only remains to decorate the dish as you like the most and leaving the figures that we made with the molds visible in the mouth of the frog

    This recipe for fruit frog is undoubtedly very healthy and nutritious, I personally like to do many crafts and more when it is for my family to eat healthily.

    KIDS FRUIT CARVING IDEAS

    It is quite fun to make this recipe and even more so when you include your children to help you make it, you can ask them to make the figures to fill the frog and with the cookie molds there will be no danger for them. This is a DIY a safe activity to make with kids.

    WATERMELON T-REX DIANAOSOUR

    frutas decoradas para fiestas infantiles dinosaurio

    Sandía en forma de dinosaurio

    Sandía relena de fruta en forma de dinosaurio para decoración de centro de mesa infantil. Ver receta

    WATERMLEON SHAPPED AS A SHARK

    sandia en forma de tiburon

    Este tiburón de sandía es muy divertido

    Sandía decorada en forma de tiburon para fiesta infantil, centros de mesa o piñatas.
    Ver receta aquí

    CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES

    como hacer fresas cubiertas de chocolate

    Deliciosas fresas subiertas de chocolate

    Consiente a tu amor o invitados con estas deliciosas fresas cubiertas de chocolate. Ver receta aquí


    Melon Frog

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    Ingredients

    • Watermelon
    • Green and orange melon
    • Pineapple
    • Blue Berries
    • Radishes

    Instructions

    • Take the melon, look for where the base of our toad will be, and make a cross cut so that our frog stays standing and does not roll.
    • The second step is to find where the mouth of our frog will be, using a marker, draw it, check that both corners of the mouth are at the same level, leaving a little less than a quarter of the melon.
    • Then remove all the seeds, after removing it we help ourselves with a spoon and remove as much of the meat from the melon
    • Next using cooking molds cut some fruit in fun shappes. you can use watermelon, pineapple, melon, green melon, blue berries or any other fruit that you have handy.
    • To make the bulging eyes of the frog, from the melon that had cut from the base, we will cut the corner and then we cut it in half, resulting in two types of triangles that we will use as pronounced eyelids, we will complement for the eyes two slices of radish to make it white for the eyes and to make the eyes dark we use blue berries, finally we join it all with toothpicks and bury them in the upper part of our melon.
    • Our next step is to make the legs, and again we will use the part that we have left of the melon, we remove the meat of the melon so that only the rind remains and with the help of a knife we ​​make the shape of the legs, when we finish making our legs we put them on the sides of our frog shaped melon.
    • It only remains to decorate the dish as you like the most and leaving the figures that we made with the molds visible in the mouth of the frog

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    Laura Muller is a trilingual Mexican mom living in the city of Chicago. Laura started her YouTube channel Las Recetas de Laura more than 10 years ago to teach people how to cook Mexican food in a healthier way. Laura's recipes are specialized for people with diabetes and high cholesterol. Laura promotes healthy eating for every body size and talks about her own experience dealing with being overweight and how people of any size can have an active and healthy life.

    Laura creates content in Spanish and English for a community of over 3 million followers and has been recognized as one of the most influential Latinas in the US, Latinos 40 under 40 in Chicago.
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