Food Art: A Fall Leaf Fruit Tree

We are quickly nearing the end of summer, and fall will be here before we know it! Fall just happens to be my favorite season of the year. I love the warm breezes, the beautiful evenings and most of all, the colorful leaves.

To me, nothing is prettier than falling leaves in gorgeous reds, oranges and yellows.  This delicious Fall Leaf Fruit Tree is a fun snack to serve your kids on a beautiful autumn day.  Invest in a small leaf-shaped cookie cutter and you can whip up this cute snack in minutes.

What You’ll Need

Ingredients:

1 slice of cantaloupe

1 slice of watermelon

1 slice of honeydew melon

1 slice of brown pear

A handful of Kix cereal

Tools:

1 small leaf-shaped cookie cutter

Kitchen knife – please supervise children if allowing them to slice

How To Make It

1. Take your long slice of brown pear, and place it on a plate.

2. Using your small leaf-shaped cookie cutter, cut leaf shapes out of your 3 varieties of melon.  Place these melon leaves all around your tree trunk.

3. Grab some Kix cereal and place it throughout your colorful tree.

Jill Dubien is a working mom who loves to craft and cook with her kiddos in her spare time.  Before she had kids, Jill couldn’t cook much of anything except toast and cereal, and really despised being in the kitchen. People who know her personally find it extremely humorous that she is now the self-proclaimed “Queen of fun food.” Jill blogs at Meet the Dubiens, where she shares lots of fun foods and crafts for kids.