Valentine's Day Fruit Platter made with LOVE

I run a local Mommy group for my Mommy friends and my son and his friends and today was our little Valentine's Playdate Party. I brought a bunch of papers, heart doilies, and stickers to make Valentines and everyone brought a dish to share. On my quest to make things a little healthier for my little sweetheart and his friends, I decided a cute and festive fruit plate was the way to go.

One thing I've learned about feeding fruit to kids in my playgroup is that they LOVE it when it is on skewers. I don't know why this is, but for some reason, kids will eat the entire skewer of fruit without hesitation. I got over my fear of giving little kids sharp objects (pointy wooden skewers) because they are such an effective health food delivery device and we have never had an incident to date.

To get this platter up and running, I had a couple different shapes of heart cookie cutters and I cut all my strawberry hearts by hand.

The "silver" platter is a plastic one from the Dollar Tree which I've used MANY times over, now.

For fruit, I used:

1 small watermelon, 

2 medium sized clamshells of strawberries, 

1 small clamshell each of raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. 

skewers

It looks like a lot, but it really wasn't a ton of fruit! After I ran out of strawberries for skewers, I put all the loose berries that were left just in and around the platter which I think really made it look filled in and beautiful. I think the several large watermelon hearts really made it look customized and gorgeous.

I even got a little help in the kitchen from my little shirtless chef.

Of course he did his OWN pattern and left out the "YUCKY" blackberries!

The fruit was a big hit at the party! I was left with a couple skewers but ALL of the loose watermelon hearts were devoured on site. 

My son even ate a skewer in the car on the ride home!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!