A Juicy, Fun Way To Take Your Vitamins

While kids want great taste, you want to give them the vitamins, minerals, and fiber their growing bodies need.

Serve watermelon and you can both be happy.

Watermelon is a fun, nutritious way to make sure active kids don’t get dehydrated; it’s 92 percent water!

A two-cup serving of watermelon is an excellent source of vitamins A, B6, and C. It also provides 7 percent of the recommended daily value of potassium! All with only 80 calories!

Fat-free and full of fiber, watermelon gets its beautiful red color comes from all-natural lycopene, an antioxidant that can help keep kids’ bodies healthy.

Watermelon can be eaten at any meal. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and it’s a wonderful snack for the whole family. Delicious on its own, watermelon can be a fantastic ingredient in recipes, too.
Previously just a summertime treat, tasty watermelon is now available year-round!

Consider a watermelon carving as a great addition to a kids’ party buffet, and, better yet, let the birthday boy or girl can help make it!
The salad inside can be as simple as a mixture of blueberries, seedless green grapes, and balls of watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon.
It’s colorful and kids love it!

Carving Instructions for Watermelon Fish

Slice 1/4 inch off the bottom lengthwise to provide a stable base.

With a melon baller, cut half circles over half the top of the watermelon in a rectangular shape, remove and set aside. This piece will be used for the top fin and tail.

Scoop out the flesh.

Cut out the tail shape and the melon balled fin-piece from the rectangular piece set aside earlier. Attach the fin and tail with sturdy, round toothpicks.

Cut out eyes using a melon baller. Trim around the outside of the eye socket, then place it back in, rind side out.

For the mouth, point a paring knife at a downward angle above the stem and slice through 3 inches on either side of the stem, cutting through the rind. Push out the mouth from the inside.
For the side fin, cut 3 cuts into the side using the melon baller to make the curves on the back of the fin. Then slice straight cuts to form the top and bottom of the fin.
Find visuals for the directions at watermelon.org

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