Food Art: A Sweet Piglet Watermelon Snack

This sweet little piglet is a fun and yummy snack that your kids can help you make in the kitchen.  This yummy snack uses fresh and delicious watermelon, which is coming into season right now.  If your kids are anything like mine, they’ll gobble this snack up faster than little piggies!

What You’ll Need

Ingredients:

2 pieces of watermelon cut into circles – 1 larger and 1 smaller – I used different sized drinking glasses to cut the circles

1 strawberry

2 blueberries

3 baby carrots

2 sprinkles

a handful of Kix cereal

Tools:

a kitchen knife – please supervise children if allowing them to slice

How To Make It

1. Place your 2 circles of watermelon on top of one another, with the smaller circle on top.  Place these on a plate.

2. Using your knife, slice your strawberry into 2 small triangles for the ears, 2 small circles for the feet, and 1 slightly bigger circle for the nose.  Place these on your piggy.

3. Place 2 blueberries on the piglet for eyes and 2 sprinkles on the nose.  Peel a thin slice off 1 baby carrot, curl it up and place it next to the piggy for the tail.

4. Now let’s add some fun decoration to the plate.  To make the sun I cut 1 baby carrot into 1 thin circle and 8 thin slices.  Place these on your plate.  Your little piggy also needs a trough to eat from.  I made a trough by cutting another carrot into 1 thick slice and 2 shorter, smaller slices.  Place these on your plate.  Fill your trough with delicious Kix cereal.

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.