Does your child think broccoli looks like little trees? Or that mashed potatoes resemble sand dunes?
Food activates imagination with its colors and shapes! Provide a palette of colorful fruits or vegetables and give your child the green light to play with their food and create edible art.
What you’ll need:
- cut fruits and vegetables
- empty plate
- fork and spoon
Directions:
Explain to your child that a palette is a board on which an artist holds and mixes their paints. Then provide them with a “palette” of their own—one filled with fruits and veggies—and encourage them to use the food to create a work of art on their empty plate.
Let them know they can experiment with techniques—mashing blueberries to create a sky or water, smooshing kiwis to make grass, etc.—as long as they are willing to eat their artwork.
Take photographs of their creations before having kids dig in!
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