Butterfly Salad--Just for Kids |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 10 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Do the kids like to watch the butterflies? They will find this salad fun. You can talk about insects while they eat. Ingredients:
1 piece of crisp lettuce |
1 slice canned pineapple |
1 dates or 1 prunes or 1 apple |
2 raisins |
2 pieces licorice whips (short pieces) |
4 slices olives or 4 slices cherries |
Directions:
1. ARRANGE AS FOLLOWS:.
2. Put lettuce on a plate.
3. Cut the pineapplie slice in half and put the rounded sides touching in the middle of the lettuce-these are the wings.
4. Use a date, prune, or apple slice for the body and place it in the middle of the pineapple slice.
5. The two raisins are the eyes that you can tuck under the date.
6. Curl the two licorice whips and make them to come out the middle of the wings just under the head-these are antennae (OR you could use curled celery).
7. Decorate the wings with the olives or cherry slices (or whatever else you could think of).
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