Food fun, learn AND eat eat vegetables at the same time! I keep seeing all these fantastic, fun food creations especially on Pinterest. I don’t always have time to make something elaborate and if you have a room full of preschoolers, fancy snacks are even harder to make time for. So I set out to come up with some ideas of fun food crafts and play time using food so we can talk about eating veggies and make them more fun.
Carrot craft - make a smiley face
Create a game or edible craft with carrots!
Get yourself a relatively large carrot and cut into a variety of shapes. The bigger the carrot, the easier it is to make triangles and decent sized rectangles. Make at least 2 of each shape, although 3 is just that much more fun.
Cut a carrot into different shapes
Once you have the piece cut, your preschooler can play a matching game, pairing up the matching shapes or create pictures and other shapes by combining the geometric shapes. You could even use this as some snack time match if you’d like… “if I have 3 circles and I eat 1, how many circles are left?”.
carrot shapes to make a car or train
carrot shapes to make buildings
making a smiley face with cut carrots
I know playing with our food is generall discouraged, but if playing with food can make veggie eating fun, then I say, do it! You can create this project with just about any kind of hard fruit or vegetable, apples would also work really well. (cheese and salami or bologna would work too). Consider combining two food items to play a matching shape and food item game too.
What other fun food activities do you like to do?
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Jen Goode is the creator and owner of ProjectsforPreschoolers.com. She is a work-at-home mom of 3 and the owner and “doodler in charge” of JGoode Designs, a Denver based art and design studio. She has been a creative professional since 1996. Jen, shares her creative inspirations here at Projects for Preschoolers as well as 100 Directions and as a featured contributor on various sites throughout the web.
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