Hi! Heather the babysitter here bringing you another babysitter friendly snack. As summer approaches and the weather begins to go from hot to hotter, what we feel like making in the kitchen gets cooler. And nothing is cooler than a pirate ship made out of our favorite fruits! It’s true, when it’s super hot outside, there’s nothing as refreshing and satisfying as ripe, delicious and nutritious fruit.

As a babysitter, we have our hands full and need to keep snack time easy. But especially in the hot months, we don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. These fruit boats are the ideal stay cool snack treat. All you have to do is cut the fruit in to the shapes needed for the boat and the kiddos can go to town assembling them into their own mini pirate ships.

Use a wedge of cantaloupe as the ships base.  Then cut watermelon into rectangular sails. Bananas make for the perfect fruity sailor man. You will need to use wooden skewers, broken in half to attach everything together. These ship are so cute you won’t want to eat them. But they’re delicious so you should! The babysitter is the only one allowed to cut the fruit..but assembling the ship is for all ages.