Veggie and Fruit Fun

fruit ideas for crafts

Here's a ton of fruit fun for kids.

Making these fruit and vege creatures is fun for adults too, and reminds us not to take life too seriously!

These are kids' favourites. Let your kids play with their food - some of the time, anyway! Don't they love it?

Use any interesting fruit or veggies. The more knobbles and bumps they have on them, the better!

(Suits children age 10 and up, or younger children with an adult doing the cutting.)

For This Fruit Craft, You'll Need:

A variety of fruit and vegetables. Try capsicums, zucchini, squash, potatoes, pears, lemons and oranges.

A fruit knife.

Dried chick peas

A few small twigs

Black marker pen

Now Make Your Creatures:

1. Have a good look at one of your fruit or veggies. Does it have a personality? Does that wrinkle look like a mouth? Could that knob or stem be a nose? Decide which features might help make a face. Look at the pictures of creatures on this page to get ideas.

fruit ideas for kids

2. Decide where the eyes should go, and carefully cut small holes in the fruit or vegetable. Poke dried chickpeas just far enough in for them to be secure. Draw a black dot on each eye with the marker pen.

3. Make whatever cuts you need to, to make the other facial features. You may need to cut out a mouth or eyebrows.

4. You may want to poke twigs in for horns or hair, or to attach other pieces of vegetable with toothpicks.

5. Display your creatures along the centre of the table. If necessary, poke toothpicks in underneath to stand them up.

If you have a digital camera with a zoom, try taking close-up photos of your fruit creations. Add speech bubbles to the prints, and think of some crazy things for them to be saying to each other!

Make a book of your photos and captions. Keep it on the coffee table for visitors to enjoy.

Make these creatures to cheer someone up - perhaps a grandparent!

Think of more fruit ideas.

Try making Cute Peppermint Mice - A No Cook Recipe

How about Sea Urchin Party Nibbles that kids can make themselves?

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