By Fitty Foodlicious

PATRIOTIC  FRUIT SALAD

Patriotic Fruit Salad is a delicious and healthy red white and blue fruit salad that's perfect for celebrating Memorial Day and Fourth of July. This Fourth of July fruit salad will be the hit at your summer BBQs and family gatherings. Made with fresh fruit, you'll want to display this flag fruit salad at all of your summer events!

What You'll Need  For Fourth of July Fruit Salad 

Pitted CherriesFresh StrawberriesSliced BananasFresh BlueberriesWatermelonStar Cookie Cutter for star shapesFruit platter or wooden cheese boardLemon juice (to keep the fruit from browning)

Step 1:

– Wash and prep your fruit. Slice the bananas, slice up a quarter of a watermelon, slice the strawberries in halves, and pit the cherries.

Step 2: Using a star cookie cutter, cut five watermelon stars by placing the star shaped cookie cutter into each watermelon slice and removing the outside of the watermelon rind. This should make thick watermelon star slices. This will make the stars on our flag fruit salad. Patriotic fruit salad.

Adorable Watermelon Stars

Step 3:

Now we start making our American flag with the fruit. On a fruit platter, start with the left upper side of the flag, by adding the stars first. Next, add the first row of fruit. Do this in the red, white, and blue sequence. The first row is red strawberries, next, add a row of sliced bananas for the white. This makes the cutest patriotic fruit salad platter.

Step 4:

Now, add row of blueberries for the bue. Repeat this pattern until you have formed a flag.Repeat this process until you have a cute fruit flag!

Add shish kabob sticks and a bowl of cool whip to go with your patriotic salad!