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    Home » Family Friendly Recipes » Breakfast

    Easy Recipes for Kids - Simple Fruit Salad

    May 20, 2013 · 5 Comments

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    Small Child absolutely loves his fruit, so I decided to put together a simple fruit salad recipe for him that he could prepare himself.  We've recently been having discussions about how we can all contribute in our own way and 'do our bit' for our family; that day Daddy cut the grass, Mummy made dinner and Small Child made dessert.  He was really pleased and proud to have made what he considered to be an equal contribution.

    Cooking with Small Child Button

    The selection of fruit for this recipe was chosen based on ease of preparation, but of course you can use any fruit that you like to replace these ones if you decide to make this recipe yourself.  A PDF of the recipe can be found at the bottom of this post, in case you'd like to challenge your own 'Small Child' to give it a go.

    Ingredients

    • Blueberries
    • Strawberries
    • Grapes
    • 2 Clementines
    • 2 Bananas
    • 50ml Orange Juice

    Method

    Wash all the fruit if necessary.  Put the blueberries in a large bowl.  Chop the tops off the strawberries, cut them all in half and add them to the bowl.  As I've mentioned before, I allow Small Child to use a small sharp paring knife (under close supervision at all times) as I believe that the best way for him to learn about knife safety is to learn how to use it properly, and practice makes perfect.  Every child is different though, so you should use your own judgement to decide whether your child is ready to use a sharp knife or not.

    Cooking with Small Child - Simple Fruit Salad Step 1

    Chop the grapes in half and add to the bowl.  Peel the clementines, break them into segments and add to the bowl.

    Cooking with Small Child - Simple Fruit Salad Step 2

    Peel the bananas, chop them into pieces and add to the bowl.  Measure out the orange juice.

    Cooking with Small Child - Simple Fruit Salad Step 3

    Pour over the orange juice and stir to coat all the fruit.

    Cooking with Small Child - Simple Fruit Salad Step 4

    You can serve the fruit salad up as it is, or add extras such as cream, natural yoghurt or meringues as desired.  We had crushed meringues with ours, it was delicious!

    Cooking with Small Child - Simple Fruit Salad a 5 year old can make unassisted - with downloadable recipe sheet

    If you’d like to print off a child-friendly copy of this recipe for yourself, click on the link below to download the PDF file.  Do comment and let me know if you try it!

    Simple Fruit Salad Recipe

    Please let me know if there are any other recipes you'd like to see here or if you have any other suggestions; we're always looking for new ideas to try.

    Grace

     

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    1. Jenn says

      May 22, 2013 at 7:13 pm

      Yum! Great job with dessert Small Child!

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    2. Anne says

      May 06, 2014 at 3:14 pm

      Well Done Small Child, what a delicious looking fruit salad 🙂 Thanks for linking up to Kids in the kitchen x

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    3. thebeesleybuzz says

      May 07, 2014 at 12:04 pm

      What a great fruit salad small child - well done! Totally agree about the knife skills. My younger son was using sharp knives with supervision from age 5 ish whereas my older son (now 9) i still wouldn't feel comfortable for him to do so because of his ASD he's not so safety conscious. D actually made it to the live cook-off final of Kent cooks at 6 years old and really impressed them doing all his own cutting. i'm sure it was down to him learning from a young age. x

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    4. kacper says

      November 27, 2018 at 8:58 am

      I love this

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