I've put off this project thinking it would be more difficult than it was.  However, our newspaper printed the easy steps to making your own fruit leather the other day, I decided to give it a try.  To purchase 100% fruit leather from the grocery store will run more than $0.50 a piece, but making it yourself is much more affordable.
It's been getting HOT around here, with temperatures hitting 100 degrees this past weekend, so I knew it would be a good time to try it.  I took 14 strawberries from my bag of frozen strawberries.  Defrosted them in the microwave, and blendedthem up.

I sprayed a cookie sheet, rather than line it with wax paper, and this seemed to work better for me.  I scooped the strawberry puree and put on cookie sheet. I set the cookie sheet outside in the hottest part of the day, around 10:00.  I did try to cover the sheet with plastic wrap to keep the bugs out (which we have a lot of), but I couldn't keep the wrap from ruining my puree, so I chanced it.

After only 4 hours, at about 2:00, my fruit rolls were not sticky to the touch any more. That is how you know it's finished, and I scraped them off of my pan with a spatula.  They came off quite easily, and no bugs landed on the fruit in the process... hooray!

Two kids liked them, one said he preferred them a little thicker (they were kind of thin, but they were still flexible).  I thought they were great.  You can add a drop of lemon juice to your fruit to prevent browning, and of course you can experiment with different fruit depending on what your kids like.  I was surprised that this many fruit rolls only took 14 strawberries.  I thought it would take a lot more fruit.    I think it was a success.  I would try it again. It would be a great thing to add to a school lunch or bring along for a  snack in the car.