For most families, Halloween produces an overload of sugar and chocolate and other treats.  BUT: there can also be apples and oranges and healthy, creative edibles that kids will rave about. We made two super-cute items that were delicious and fun. Behold, apple-slice smiles and tiny citrus pumpkins!

Ingredients

Apple Smiles

  • Red apples, sliced into wedges
  • Almond butter, sunflower butter, or peanut butter
  • Mini-marshmallows or whole almonds

Tangerine Pumpkins

  • “Cuties,” satsuma oranges, or tangerines (seedless)
  • Pieces of celery cut to look like stems. Can also use green pepper, spinach leaf, or almond.

 

 

Instructions

Apple Smiles

  1. Take two narrow apple slices and apply almond butter to the inside surfaces.  Use it to “glue” five mini-marshmallows near the peel to look like teeth.
  2. Eat. Repeat.

Tangerine Pumpkins

  1. Peel the fruit, being careful not to separate sections.  With your finger, hollow out a little space down the middle to place the “stem.”
  2. Eat.  🙂

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(One of the cutest things I’ve seen in class: a little girl had just lost a tooth. She made an apple smile, and took out one marshmallow “tooth” – and her smile matched her creation! Hilarious.}

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