See also the recipe for vegetable bugs.
Ingredients
2-3 celery stalks, cut into various lengths for different bugs
½ cup peanut butter (or other nut/seed butter for peanut allergies)
1 cup red and/or green grapes
3-4 strawberries, sliced
½ cup blueberries
1 apple, sliced
¼ cups mini dairy-free chocolate chips
Method
Begin by preparing the googly eyes for your bugs. Pipe small dots of cream cheese onto a plate. Top with mini dairy-free chocolate chips. After assembling the eyes you can then pop them into the freezer to chill. Tip: if you don’t have piping bags, sandwich bags with the tip of the corner cut off will work well for piping eyes.
Prepare the fruit. Refer to the Internet for a visual guide showing the many ways you can prepare the ingredients.
Scoop seeds from mini cucumbers. Help your bugs stand upright by slicing a flat edge on the bottoms of mini cucumbers and celery sticks.
Vegetable bugs. Fill celery stalks and/or mini cucumbers with cream cheese, using a piping bag or spoon.
Fill the celery stalks with peanut butter, using a piping bag or spoon. These will be the base of all the fruit and vegetable bugs you make.
Unleash your kids’ imagination! Use the Internet for inspiration to make snails, caterpillars, dragonflies, and butterflies. Or get creative and invent your own bugs.
- Snails: Start with a fruit round for the shell. Stick chilled googly eyes onto the grape ‘heads’. Insert thin-sliced apples (with skins on) for antennae.
- Caterpillars: Stick chilled googly eyes onto grape ‘heads’. Add apple antennae. Make the body with a line of grapes or blueberries.
- Dragonflies and butterflies: Stick chilled googly eyes onto grape ‘heads’. Add apple antennae. Use sliced strawberries for wings. Use blueberries or grapes for the body.
Author
Brittany Mueller