Looking for the perfect Spring-time gift to give a friend this May? Fruit Bouquets are the ultimate craze! Making fruit bouquets is a fun and creative activity that you can participate in with the kids.

The material you're working with is healthy, so you won't get distracted by carb-loaded cake mixtures or chocolate, and the result is a beautiful artistic creation that will give your friend their five-a-day. Here is how you can go for the fruit bouquet:

1. First, google images of the “Fruit Bouquet”, to get the styles you like.
2. I studied several images and wrote down the fruit I wanted to use:
   • Pineapples
   • grapes
   • cantaloupe
   • and strawberries
3. I placed half a head of iceberg lettuce in the bottom of my flower pot.
4. I broke skewers into various lengths.
5. We (mostly the kids) placed strawberries on the end of some of the sticks.
6. We strung grapes on a stick all in a row.
7. I Sliced an entire pineapple into rings (crossways) moving from bottom of pineapple to the top.
8. We scooped balls of cantaloupe with a melon baller.
9. We cut pineapple flower shapes using a large sandwich cookie cutter (with the rubber grip, and the metal bottoms).
10. Then we slid the shaped pineapple on the end of a stick, and topped it with the cantaloupe.

The kids had so much fun doing this, but even more fun eating it. I had to keep swatting the neighbourhood away until the pictures were done, and then all the neighbour kids dove in and it disappeared faster than a plate of cookies! This is a great spring activity especially if your flowers haven’t bloomed yet.