🌈 Rainbow Fruit Cup

Rainbow Fruit Cup for kids: the whole recipe

Let's eat a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green and blue! This easy no-cook recipe is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 6 strawberries
• 1 clementine
• 1 banana
• 12 grapes
• 1 kiwi
• ½ cup blueberries

Tools

A cutting board, A sharp knife (grown-up), A butter knife, Cups or glasses, A big spoon.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Rinse 6 strawberries, 12 grapes and ½ cup of blueberries under cold water.
3. Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts the strawberries and grapes in half with a sharp knife.
4. Grown-up step: A grown-up peels 1 kiwi and cuts it into round slices.
5. Peel 1 banana and slice it into coins with your butter knife.
6. Peel 1 clementine and pull it apart into little moons.
7. Fill your cups by colour: blue, green, yellow, orange, then red on top!
8. Count the colours in your rainbow, then dig in with a spoon!

Safety notes

• Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
• None of the nine major allergens as written. Still read the labels on packets.
• Cut grapes in half the long way for little ones under 4.
• Squash blueberries a little for little ones under 4.

Kitchen science

Fruit gets its bright colours from natural pigments, and each colour brings your body something different.

Make it your own

• Add purple: a few blackberries or red grapes.
• Squeeze a little orange juice over it to keep the banana bright.
• Lay the fruit on a plate in curved stripes, like a real rainbow.

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