Fruit Spotlight: 5 Healthy & Creative Watermelon Recipes for Kids

From the archive. This post was first published on the original Green Eggs and Moms blog and is kept here as it was.

Some kids just love watermelon.

While others? Well… maybe they don’t.

If your children belong to the latter, don’t feel discouraged.

Here are FUN watermelon recipes that may convert them. The bonus? By eating this fresh and crisp fruit, the kiddos get a dose of vitamins C, A, B6, B1 and lycopene (an antioxidant). [Source: Fit Web MD]

If you’re looking for healthy snacks for kids, look no further.

5 Watermelon recipes your kids will love

1. Watermelon Cut Outs

This awesome idea is from Culinary.net.

Get your cookie cutters out, some yogurt and granola or cereals to make this eye-catchingly healthy snack.

Did we mention how easy this is to do?

2. Watermelon Cupcakes

Watermelon.org has a lot of creative watermelon recipes but we’ve only chosen a few.

The cupcake idea is one of them.

To make this a healthy snack, substitute the cream cheese topping with yogurt, and sprinkles with chopped almonds or any other nuts your kids like.

3. Watermelon Nachos

Thank you to Family Features for this recipe.

Compared to the others, this requires more ingredients but it’s worth it.

You’ll need: Greek yogurt, vanilla and almond extract, craisins, white chocolate chips, toasted almonds, cinnamon and other things you enjoy with watermelon. Get creative.

4. Watermelon Checkers

This is from the Moms Menu blog and is a game in itself.