 Hi, my name is Pam. I'm here at the Billy Jean King Main Library. I'm one of the children's librarians here, and I've come to show you a really delicious way to enjoy colors this summer. All summer, our theme has been reading colors your world, and I hope you've been reading some colorful books. I wanted to show some of my favorite books to you. The first one way over there is called Eat Your Greens, Reds, purples, yellows, and purples, and it's all vegetables and fruits, so it's very yummy. And I've tried some of the recipes. They're really, really, really good. In front of that is a rainbow of my own by Don Freeman. That's an oldy, but goody book. And it's the story of a boy who wants nothing more than to have a rainbow of his own. And how will that happen? Well, you have to read the book and find out. Now, if you want to know how rainbows really happen, you're going to want to read rainbows by Grace Hanson. And you're going to find out some interesting things about rainbows, like where you have to stand to be able to see one. And the last book is called Elmer and the Rainbow by David McKee. And some of you know the story of Elmer, how he's a patchwork elephant. He looks very different than all the other elephants. And in this book, after a rainstorm, there's a rainbow, but it has no colors. It's just kind of a gray arch in the sky. Well, how are they going to get colors to the rainbow? It's up to Elmer to come to the rescue once again. All right, well, let's get into our treat for the day. Rainbow parfaits. You don't need a lot of things, but you want some colorful things. So you're going to pick your favorite fruits that have these colors of the rainbow. You're going to start off with purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. And you're going to have some yogurt or some pudding. So vanilla pudding or vanilla yogurt. And you want to stir up your yogurt. Now, this could also be an exercise in math, because you've got layers and layers. And if you're really, really picky, you could measure off how big your layers are going to be. But today we're just going to wing it and see what happens. So we're going to start with a layer of yogurt. And I got this cool dish at the Dollar Tree. So it's kind of fun to have a glass dish so you can see all your layers. And we're going to start off with our purple grapes. Now, of course, if you're using fruit, you want to be sure and wash it. And I cut my grapes because sometimes you just don't want to get that whole piece of fruit in your mouth at once. So we've got our grapes. Let's put a few more in here. All right, so we have our grapes. And we're going to put in some more yogurt. So the great thing about this is, apart from cutting up the fruit, you don't need knives, you don't need anything like that. You just need spoons. And so now we're going to have our blueberries. So our blueberries, blueberries sometimes have a little bit of a stem on them. So you want to make sure all the stems are off because there's nothing worse than biting into blueberries and going, oh, I got that, that yucky stem. So we're just going to sprinkle our blueberries on. There you go. Put those on. And we'll put a little bit more yogurt on. All right. And next comes our green grapes. So we're going to put our green grapes on. And they're cut in half also. Green grapes there. Little more yogurt. And our yellow peaches. Now, I used canned peaches today because I just didn't feel like taking the time to cut up regular peaches. So you can use fresh peaches or you can use canned peaches. If you're using canned peaches, make sure that you take time to drain out the juice because otherwise your parfait is going to get really soggy. And ready for our orange, which is cantaloupe. If you know other fruits with these colors, you are free to make your rainbow any way you want. A little more yogurt. And our final is strawberries. You can also use watermelon. This is a great time of the year for watermelon, not so much for strawberries. But you top it with that and one more dab of yogurt. Now, I was looking in my kitchen and I happened to find some rainbow sprinkles. And I thought, oh, that's a perfect topping for a rainbow parfait. So you just put some sprinkles on. All right. So that is our rainbow parfait. I'll just tilt that a little so you can see the rainbow sprinkles. And you can see most of the layers. And then you're free to enjoy. So I'm going to have a little bit. Yum. Oh. All right. So I hope that you all get a chance to make your own parfaits. And feel free to come into the library and tell us what kind of fruit you used for them. So thanks for watching and have a wonderful, colorful day and enjoy your reading.