Christmas Fruit Salad

It's that time of the year and there are lots of holiday activities to keep me busy, including at my son's school.  "L" had a holiday party and this time I signed up to bring fruit.  I thought about how I could make fruit more festive and first considered a red and green them, but good strawberries are hard to come by lately.  Then, I actually googled "Christmas fruit salad" and most of the results were for gelatin mold salads and mayo based fruit salads.  I'm not sure how many 3-year olds would dig those. 

So I decided to make a regular fruit salad and bought some Christmas cupcake liners that came with decorative picks.  To pre-portion everything out for the sake of the teachers, I used foil cupcake liners and placed the Christmas liners on the outside.  I filled the cups with blueberries, grapes, orange segments and honeydew.  I cut thin slices of the honeydew and cut out tree, star and candy cane shapes using small cookie cutters.  I was glad I finally got some use out of those cutters!  I had bought a pineapple earlier in the week and that would have made a better star but alas, that pineapple was not ripe in time.

The kids, and apparently the teachers too, totally got a kick out of the shaped honeydew.  I don't know what it is, but I guess things are just more fun to eat when cut into shapes.  Now I'm wondering if I can cut beef into candy cane shapes to get my lil "P" to eat it.

Here's a picture of a fully assembled cup with the cute penguin pick.