Fun With Food - Day 2 - Rainbow Pops

It was over 100 degrees yesterday, so our food fun activity just HAD to be making popsicles.  We made two different varieties of rainbow pops.

For the first kind, I made vanilla pudding and separated it into six bowls.  I used Jello instant vanilla pudding and followed the directions on the box to make the pudding.  We then used food coloring to make each bowl of pudding one color of the rainbow.  Then, we spooned the pudding into our popsicle molds, layering the colors of the rainbow.

The nice thing about pudding is that it layers without blending, so we could make the entire rainbow before freezing.

We used fruits and juices to make the second kind of rainbow pop.  To avoid color blending, we had to freeze each layer before adding the next layer. 

 This is what we used:

• red layer - strawberries blended with a little yogurt 
• orange layer - orange juice
• yellow layer - lemonade
• green layer - mashed kiwi
• blue/purple layer - blueberries blended with a little lemonade

C thinks the pudding pops are the tastiest; from what I can remember, they taste like Jello Pudding Pops.  I really like the fruit/juice pops; they are very refreshing.  R thinks they are both okay, but not a treat she would like to eat again.

Another activity checked off on the Summer Bucket List!!

*We use, and LOVE, Tovolo Popsicle Molds to make all of our popsicles.