Help me game this out - Fruit for Pre-School

[Anonymous]

I'm in charge of bringing fruit for the Halloween celebration for DD's class of 15.

I was going to try to make it simple by doing the peeled tangerine with the celery top to look like a pumpkin. And, I was also going to do the peeled 1/2 banana "ghost" with chocolate chips for eyes.

I know that the banana will start to oxidize immediately. So I should wrap them individually and store in the fridge, right? Do I do that the morning of or should I freeze overnight? Will that (freezing) make them turn brown when they defrost?

Also, I'm assuming I should also wrap the tangerines individually once peeled, correct? I'm unsure on timing.

[Anonymous]

My preschool wouldn’t allow homemade fruit snacks, so you might want to check. When we sign up to bring fruit, they mean a package of precut fruit from the store.

[Anonymous]

Serve cup strawberries in Halloween-themed cupcake liners. I bring strawberries to everything and they are always eaten up. What you are describing sounds like a lot of work, and if it doesn’t look perfectly appealing, preschoolers might not eat it.

[Anonymous]

^CUT strawberries

[Anonymous]

Just take normal fruit, not all of this cutesy stuff. It will be a lot of work, probably gross by the time you get it there, and the kids won't appreciate it. You're not winning any Pinterest awards for taking in snack.

[Anonymous]

Precut apple slices

I know the other ideas are cute but at that age they just don’t care. Sure the teacher and parents will oh and ah but it’s not worth your effort.

[Anonymous]

Chocolate dipped strawberries with orange sprinkles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate dipped strawberries with orange sprinkles.

No.

[Anonymous]

Just stick some googly eyes on bananas and be done with it. Or even some Halloween stickers on the bananas would be easier.

[Anonymous]

Our preschool but not our public school allows homemade treats.
I bought those little 4oz cups wit kids and prepped fruit.

Stop there.

Or if you are set on a themed item, practice some little art on a few extra cups. Can you make a google eyed mummy, monster or something?

[Anonymous]

With lids

[Anonymous]

I would do clementines with peel still on and put a pumpkin sticker on each one. Way easier and more sanitary too!

[Anonymous]

Use a sharpie to decorate those little plastic cups of mandarin oranges or peaches in juice. Make them look like jack o lanterns or whatever. Our preschool didn’t allow anything prepared at home because of risk of cross contamination for allergies. Wrapping a bunch of bananas in plastic seems like a ton of work for preschool snacks!

[Anonymous]

I agree with everyone else that these snacks are too much, but also, bananas will absolutely turn brown and mushy of you freeze them. Just do clementine with a pumpkin sticker or something.

[Anonymous]

Just take a black sharpie and draw triangle eyes and a mouth on unpeeled clementines. Stick Halloween stickers on unpeeled bananas if you must. I’m on my 4th preschooler and no one has ever done themed food at Halloween parties