Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad Cups

Ingredients

• 5 oranges, halved and hollowed out for bowls (save the inside to add to fruit salad)
• Rainbow of fruit:

- red apple, 1 orange oranges, from halved oranges
- yellow pineapple, 1 cup cubed
- green melon, 1 cup cubed
- purple grapes, 1 cup halved

• 2 tsp. lemon juice
• 1 tsp. clear vanilla extract
• Mint leaves (optional for garnish)

Supplies

• Cutting board and knife
• Measuring spoons
• Mixing bowl
• Mixing spoon
• Serving platter

Directions

1. Try to select a rainbow of fresh seasonal fruit -red, orange, yellow, green, and purple!
2. Wash fruit thoroughly.
3. Grown-ups should cut oranges in half and use a paring knife to cut the inside out (like a grapefruit) to use as fruit salad serving bowls.
4. Grown-ups should trim the bottom of each half so that it lays flat. The best way to cut the fruit out of the orange is to use a paring knife to “scoop” the fruit out of the peel, saving the fruit for the fruit salad, as intact as possible.
5. Grown-ups should chop all of the fruit into bite sized pieces. Grapes can be cut in half. Thinner slices of apple look nice in the mixture.
6. Put the fruit in mixing bowl and stir together so the colors look like a delicious rainbow of fruit!
7. Add vanilla and lemon juice.
8. Spoon the fruit salad into orange peel halves on a platter, garnish with mint leaves and serve!

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