My kids are big fans of making their own popsicles! Last summer we made watermelon popsicles and ice cream in a bag and lots of different fruit pops.
Now that spring is almost here they wanted to try something new and we came up with Rainbow Yogurt Pops!
Rainbow Yogurt Pop Ingredients:
- plain or vanilla yogurt
- your favorite food coloring (here’s an affiliate link for natural food coloring
if you are worried about dyes)
- mini jelly jars or paper cups
- popsicle sticks
We put yogurt into six bowls and added the colors. Depending on your food coloring you will have to experiment with how much to add. It was such a fun way to practice color mixing with my preschooler!
We then layered the yogurt into our wide mouth jars and stuck in a popsicle stick. We originally tried to layer it in our popsicle molds but it was too difficult for my preschooler to not mix the colors and she had her heart set on rainbow stripes.
Luckily I remembered seeing a post from What Do We Do All Day? about making popsicles in jars so we used those instead. Little paper cups would also work.
Then we stuck them in the freezer for a couple hours until they were completely frozen. I was worried when we took them out to eat because I could not get them out of the jars!
After a couple minutes at room temp though they loosened up and we had pretty rainbow yogurt pops! Yum!
Smart! School {House} says
March 5, 2014 at 7:26 pmWOW!
Coffee Cups and Crayons says
March 5, 2014 at 7:31 pmAren’t they happy? Thanks Smart! School {House}! 🙂
Coffee Cups and Crayons says
March 6, 2014 at 12:44 pmValerie have I told you yet today that you rock???
Erica Kylander-Clark says
March 6, 2014 at 3:04 pmYummy 🙂
Coffee Cups and Crayons says
March 6, 2014 at 3:27 pmThanks Erica!!!! 🙂
Katie says
March 7, 2014 at 8:00 amWell thank you very much for this healthy and affordable treat for the munchkins!!
Ana Casado says
March 8, 2014 at 1:01 amGood!! Try cafe con leche !!
Learning Matters - Felt Stories says
March 12, 2014 at 2:15 amGreat idea!
Megan Sheakoski says
March 12, 2014 at 3:02 pmThanks Learning Matters!!!
Victoria says
March 15, 2014 at 12:00 pmSuch a great idea! Definitely trying this during the hot summer days with soy yogurt 🙂 Hopefully it turns out the same! Thanks for sharing!
Megan Sheakoski says
March 15, 2014 at 11:36 pmI bet it will!!! Enjoy!
liz nieman says
September 19, 2014 at 10:49 amI love these and that you made them without a popsicle mold! I shared these in a collection of healthy popsicles. 🙂