Fruit Roll Ups

We recently went peach picking and I decided to try to make fruit roll ups with the very ripe peaches. My 3 yr old helped but mainly just ate the peaches.  

Relatively simple recipe: chop up fruit, blend fully, simmer for about 30 min to get out excess water, then spread the mixture on a cooking sheet layered with parchment paper or nonstick foil (hard part is getting it even, which is very important to the cooking process) and cook for around 3 hrs at 170 degrees.  Let cool. Remove from foil and put on wax paper. Cut with scissors and roll up.

It obviously didn't turn out perfectly because I didn't spread the mixture out evenly - but it tastes wonderful and reminds me of the fruit leather my mom used to buy for me. Not sure my kiddo loved it but she had never had a fruit roll up before so the texture was different. Also, some recipes call for added sugar - the peaches were so ripe they didn't need sugar but I could imagine sugar may be needed with less ripe fruit. 

Flower Garden

 

This was a fun project, although took a bit more mom-help than I had thought. We've been keeping old popsicle sticks and decided to make flowers. Easy enough - construction paper and glue stick.  I had hoped my 3 year old would do the cutting but she got frustrated w the shapes she made and I ended up doing all the cutting. She also got frustrated w the shapes I made - the grass was originally a tulip but she didn't like the shape so I fashioned together a holder using construction paper and tape and put the grass along the bottom. I 

We also made lollipops and colored the handles: