Step 1

Use a straw to cut out black olive pupils. Pipe small dots of cream cheese onto a plate. Top with black olive pupils. Freeze the dots of cream cheese for easier assembly.

Step 2

Prepare fruit and vegetables, refer to preparation photos for a visual guide of the many ways you can prepare the ingredients.

Step 3

Scoop seeds from mini cucumbers. Cut a flat edge on the bottoms of celery sticks and mini cucumbers to help them stand up once they’ve been decorated as bugs.

Step 4

Fill celery stalks and/or mini cucumbers with cream cheese, using a piping bag or spoon.

Step 5

Start with a fruit or vegetable round for the shell. Stick chilled googly eyes onto cherry tomato heads, cashew heads, or grapes. Insert chives or thin-sliced apples (with skins) into the cherry tomato heads for antennae.

Step 6

Prepare fruit and vegetables, refer to preparation photos for a visual guide of the many ways you can prepare the ingredients.

Step 7

Fill celery stalks with peanut butter, using a piping bag or spoon. These will be the base to all of the fruit and vegetable bugs you make.

Step 8

Stick chilled googly eyes onto cherry tomato or grape heads. Add chive or apple antennae. Make the body with a line of cherry tomatoes, grapes, blueberries, or cereal.