Fruit Gobbler Recipe | Thanksgiving Appetizers | Family Fun

Ingredients
* Bosc pear (head)
* Melon (body)
* Cheese (beak and tail feathers)
* Red pepper (snood, feet and side feathers)
* Raisins (eyes)
* Grapes (tail feathers)
* Bamboo skewers
* Toothpicks

Instructions

1. Stabilize the melon body by cutting a shallow slice off the rind to form a flat base. Using a section of bamboo skewer, attach a Bosc pear head to the melon, as shown.
2. Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.
3. Cut red pepper feet and set them in place. For tail feathers, skewer cheese cubes and red grapes, then insert the skewers as shown. Pin pepper side feathers in place with toothpicks.

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Need a snack to tide the kids over until the big Thanksgiving feast? Here's a healthy option they can have fun making themselves.

Ingredients

* Apple
* Clementine or navel orange
* Pear
* Dried apricot
* Peanut butter or cream cheese
* Mini chocolate chips
* Nut (we used a cashew)
* Dried cranberry

Instructions:
1. Arrange apple and clementine or navel orange slices on a plate as shown, and lay a cored pear half on top.
2. Use scissors to halve a dried apricot, then snip small triangles from each half and tuck them under the pear to form the feet.
3. Finally, use peanut butter or softened cream cheese to attach mini chocolate chip eyes, a nut beak, and a dried cranberry snood.

how very creative !

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I made the Fruit Gobbler last year and the kids loved it! I am going to substitute Pineapple instead of the Cheese because they were going for the grapes no the Cheese. Really looked pretty on the table.

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Thanks for this post!! I'm going to make this for Thanksgiving, with a few adjustments.

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Michelle
*Mom to McKenna and Tanyn ~ Nov. 2000 Twins*