**Editor's note:**This recipe is reprinted from Rose Hammick's and Charlotte Packer's book Great Parties for Kids. For Hammick's and Packer's tips on throwing a kids' summer party, click here.

　　Make the fruit kabobs a day in advance and keep them in the fridge. The sauces can also be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge for 2 days.

Ingredients

Summer fruit version

　　1 cup strawberries, hulled

　　2 peaches, cut in half, pitted, and cut into chunks

　　1 small cantaloupe, skin removed, seeded, and cut into small chunks

Winter fruit version

　　1 small pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into chunks

　　1 mango, peeled, pitted, and cut into small chunks

　　2 bananas, peeled and cut into small chunks

Sweet dips

　　8 oz milk chocolate melted with 1 tablespoon of corn syrup

　　Multicolored nonpareils

　　Thread 3 pieces of fruit onto each toothpick. Chill for 1 hour. Make sweet dips. Sprinkle with nonpareils and serve with fruit.

　　Reprinted with permission from_Great Parties for Kids_ , Copyright © 2006, by Rose Hammick and Charlotte Packer. , Ryland Peters and Small, Inc.