Ridiciously Good Watermelon Popsicles (5-Minute Prep!)

purple kids plate with 3 small watermelon popsicles and a few fun cut out shapes of watermelon. The plate is sitting on my white marble kitchen table.

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Made with only 4-ingredients, these Watermelon Popsicles are an amazing frozen summer treat! No sugar added! Prepped in less than 5 minutes!

Yield: 8 mini popsicles

Prep: 5

Freeze Time: 5

Total: 5 5

Author: Michele Olivier

Course: Dessert

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Ingredients

2 cups watermelon, cubed
1 cup strawberries, see notes
1/2 lime, juiced optional
1 tsp chia seeds, optional

Instructions

Blend: place all of the ingredients into a blender and blend for 45-60 seconds on medium or until everything is smooth.
Pour: using your favorite popsicle mold, pour the watermelon mixture into the molds until the fill line. Place in the popsicle sticks.
Freeze: place the popsicle mold into the freezer and let freeze for at least 5 hours but preferably overnight.
Eat: take a popsicle out of the freezer and take out of the mold. Eat and enjoy.

Notes

Age: can be served to 6- 9+ months, depending on when the baby can hold the popsicle stick.

Yield: This recipe makes roughly 2 cups of popsicle mixture. Depending on your popsicle mold size, you may need to increase/decrease that amount.

Notes on Strawberries: you can use fresh or frozen (and thawed) strawberries for this recipe.

Seedless Watermelon: it's best to use a seedless watermelon (the white seeds are okay and will blend down) for this recipe.

Sweetness: Depending on the sweetness of your fruit and your sweetness preference, I recommend tasting the blended watermelon recipe before pouring it into the trays to see if it needs a little sweetener. If it does, add 2-3 tbsp of honey (for over 1 year of age), maple syrup or agave nectar to the recipe.

Storage: Once frozen, these popsicles will last up to 3 months in the freezer inside the popsicle mold.

Fun Add-Ins: You can make these popsicles as-is or try adding in any of these fun ingredients.

Fresh lemon juice (instead of lime)

Plain or vanilla yogurt

Canned coconut milk

2-3 mint leaves before blending

A handful of peaches, raspberries or cherries (fresh or frozen)

Cooking with Kids

Toddlers

Toddlers can help measure and pour the ingredients into the blender.
They can help put the lid on the blender and push start. Note: make sure to talk about not touching the blender blade while making something in the blender, as it can be sharp.
Once blended, toddlers can help pour the popsicle mixture into the popsicle molds. You may want to pour the popsicle mixture into a smaller measuring cup with a pouring lip to make it easier on them.
With help, they can place the popsicle molds into the freezer. My kids always spill the tray at this point, so just give them an extra hand.

Kids

You can pretty much let older kids make this recipe by themselves.
They can pick out and measure all of the ingredients. Note: make sure to talk about not touching the blender blade while making something in the blender, as it can be sharp.
Kids can pour the popsicle mixture into the molds and place the popsicle mold into the freezer.