Food gifts for women: The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas

Food gifts for women: The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas

Looking for some The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas to add in lots of fun and learning? Here are some of our favourite ways to use one of our all time favourite story books.

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Food gifts: funny crafts ideas, Crazy and Hilarious Vegetable Faces

 

Food gifts: funny crafts ideas, Crazy and Hilarious Vegetable Faces

In the late 1990s, there was the brief phenomenon of How Are You Peeling?, in which some guy realized that fruits and veggies sometimes look like faces when they unevenly spurt from the calyx of their flowers. Calendars and email forwards ensued.

You remember.
Then, Carl Kleiner, the mastermind behind those amazing photos of ingredients from the IKEA cookbook, decided to play with the above idea...but, you know, make it way better.

 

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Food gifts: Angry Birds in Our Lunch

Angry Birds in Our Lunch

 

 My kids often take packed lunches to school.   We wanted  to come up with some new and fun ideas, instead of taking the same old boring sandwich.  I asked my kids if they could come up with ideas on making Angry Bird treats before I went to the grocery store. We brainstormed for a bit, and came up with several.  My 12 yr old son even offered to go to the store with me to see if he could come up with more.. (he never wants to go to the store, so he was really into this!)    We had so many ideas we could not get them all done tonight, and this post will have to be broken up into 2, maybe even 3 parts.  

Kyle likes to take hard boiled eggs in his lunch, and thought a hard boiled bird would be a fun idea.  I just used edible markers to draw the face and hair  on the egg.

Next up was the yellow triangle bird.  I only had American cheese on hand, so he is kind of yellow-orange. Spread your miracle whip/mayo on a slice of bread and then place your slice of cheese.  Cut the bread into a triangle shape.   We used string cheese for the eyes,  yellow pepper for the beak and black olives for the brows and hair.   The black of the eyes were drawn on with edible marker. 

The round red bird was next.   I bought the tomatoes that are bigger than cherry/grape size but smaller than vine size.  They also happened to be on sale today.

 I made a small slice in the tomato and inserted a yellow pepper triangle.  This is kind of tricky because the tomato can easily tear causing the hole to become to big.   I used toothpick halves to place the string cheese eyes and olive pieces.  I also used them to add the red feathers on top.  This is probably okay for older kids because they will hopefully not eat the toothpicks, but younger kids might need help removing them. 

It was kind of hard finding something round and green for the pigs.  It was Kara's idea to use the cucumber.   We used yellow pepper for the crown, string cheese for the eyes and a piece of celery for the nose.  It was too hard to make the teeth, and the kids thought it looked better without them anyway.  

The white bread bird is one of Kara's creations.  She was just experimenting with bread tonight, but it could easily be made on a sandwich.  Use a round cookie cutter to cut a circle in the bread/sandwich. She used carrot pieces for the beak, string cheese for the eyes and olives for the brows and hair. 

The boomerang bird was also one of Kara's creations.  I have Angry Bird Rio on my phone, so I do not know this particular bird. She knew of him from her dad's Angry bird  game. She made him from cucumber, yellow pepper,  string cheese and black olives.  

Source: pamspartyplanning.blogspot.com

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Craft lessons: Watermelon carving tutorial

cocomero intagliato

How to do fruit carving - Watermelon roses


Frutta intagliata: anguria fiore


Watermelon Carving Art - Karpuz Oyma Sanatı


anguria


watermelon carving by TIRON GABI [ROMANIA]

Cooking Tips : How to Slice Watermelons

Cooking Tips : How to Cube Watermelons

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Carving art: The Art Work Of Denise Nielsen and George Worthington

 
Carving art:  The Art Work Of Denise Nielsen and George Worthington
Carving teapot for decor
























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fun food friday:

fun food friday:

Food gifts:  owl and tree, kids craft ideas

This really is fun.

Here's how I made this week's fun food:

Owl sandwich: 2 slices bread with rotisserie chicken. Cucumber and craisin eyes and carrot nose. Cut the sides of the sandwich and arrange like wings.

Tree: several cucumber slices and pretzel stick trunk.

Could it be any easier? 

Source:meetthedubiens.blogspot.com

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Food gifts: carving fruits, food decor for parties, more ideas

 

Edible Beauty

Decorating children's breakfast,
"Butterfly"

Decorating children's meals 
, "Elephant on a green salad"

Fruit Basket

See 1 Carving and Carving-2 .

Ornament painted eggs
for Easter table

Recipes and pictures of Easter holiday meals, how to color eggs, and on Easter traditions, see the Russian Orthodox kitchen on page EASTER. Easter feast .

Salad bouquet

Salad bouquet of daikon and slices of tomato.
See Carving-2 .

Salad bouquet of thin slices of tomato, carrot, cucumber and radish.
See Carving-2 .

Salad bouquet of thin slices of radish.

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Food gifts: carving fruits, food decor for parties, more ideas

  

Food gifts: carving fruits, food decor for parties, more ideas  

 Examples of egg laying

 Making and decorating salads 
or pates

		Decorating tomato slices, sliced ​​olives and herbs.
		Decorating sliced ​​sweet peppers, olives and herbs.
		Decorating mayonnaise (or sour cream thick), pomegranate seeds and chopped greens.
		Decorating with mayonnaise.
		Decorating chips, corn, olives and herbs.
		Decorating marinated or pickled mushrooms, sliced ​​cucumbers, carrots and greens.
		Decorating mushrooms, mayonnaise and greens.
		Decorating with fresh flowers in a vase, grated egg yolks, fresh herbs, olives.
		Decorating pâté, sprinkled with steamed poppy.
		Herring, "a coat" with "flowers" from slices of carrots, beans and leaves kukurury greens.
		A layer of boiled (or baked), and grated beets with the addition of sour cream or mayonnaise (or a mixture thereof), halved walnuts.
		Making "Raindrops" - a layer of sour cream or mayonnaise, boiled beets, sliced ​​green onion slices.
		Making "Mushroom."  cap "fungus" is covered with raw or cooked shredded carrots, foot - grated radish or proteins, or boiled rice or a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise.
		Salad "mushrooms."
		Making "Pineapple." Layer of mayonnaise or thick cream, mixed with spices, walnut halves, green onions.
		Salad with fish, seafood, jewelry from slices of lemon, shrimp and greens.
		Making "Calle".  "envelopes" colors of the slices of cheese, carrot anthers.
		Making "Starfish."  upper layer of grated carrots, sprinkled with sesame seeds.  Decoration of the cut along the radius and closed spiral slices of lemon and boiled shrimp.
		Making your "Character" Love "."
		Making "Bull".
		"Snowflakes" - drawing salad or snack cake with cheese and black olives.
		Easy laying hard-boiled eggs halved with green peas.
		In the decoration of dishes sure to use the bright natural colors of products.
		Making  "TSVETIK-SEMICVETIK."
		Layered salads, cooked in a lightly greased with vegetable oil and form a circular posted on the dish.  "Flowers" of sliced ​​strips of cucumber and carrot slices, parsley.
		Easter salad or pate. Jewelry made of grains of canned corn, green peas, black olives, carrots and dill.

Boats of avocado filling may be very different - to taste

The record:

		Ingredients :  3 ripe avocados •  • 100g cooked and peeled shrimp  • 10-12 cherry tomatoes (or 2-3 regular tomatoes)  • Juice of half a lemon  • vegetable oil  • salt         Preparation Avocado cut lengthwise into two parts, bone removed.
		With a teaspoon gently remove the flesh without damaging the skin.  taken out flesh into cubes, add lemon juice, stir.
		Cherry tomatoes cut into two or four parts or conventional tomatoes cut into cubes.  Mix avocado pulp, shrimp, tomatoes. A little salt and fill with vegetable oil.  Fill the cleaned avocado salad out onto a plate, decorate to your liking and serve.

Salmon rolls with vegetables

Green, yellow and red bell peppers, cucumbers, cabbage leaves cut into strips 5-7 mm wide. Get one of each strip, add a sprig of dill, wrapped in a slice of salted salmon and wrap roll with green onion. 
The taste you can add a strip carved out of butter and sprinkled with chopped dill profusely, or 1-2 strips of cheese.

Cheese "cups" with a salad

Slices of cheese to turn into cups, tie green onions, vertically placed on a plate and fill the salad.Decorate to taste.

Appetizer "Flower pots" 
of zucchini and lettuce

Ingredients : 
• zucchini - 2 pcs. 
• Bulgarian paprika - 1 / 2 pcs. 
• cucumber - 1 pc. 
• Garlic - 2 cloves 
• cheese - 40 g 
• lettuce leaves (better to take the rocket) 
• mayonnaise to taste

        Preparation

		Zucchini cut into thin long slices and fry on both sides of the pan.  For the filling sweet pepper and cucumber cut into thin long strips, shred garlic and rub on a small grater cheese.  runs the stuffing with mayonnaise and mix everything.
		At one end of the toasted slices of zucchini put lettuce or arugula leaves, top placing fillings and toppings on a little arugula.  displace slice zucchini rolls and put on a plate.

Appetizer "Peacock Tail"

Fried eggplant slices on cheese and put a lot of mayonnaise and decorate with slices of fresh cucumber, halved black olives and slices of tomato.

Seafood on Ice

Oyster shells open with a knife, add other seafood, put on ice cubes and garnish with greens and serve.

Serving sandwiches 

Sausage sandwiches. "Forest Story" - ham sandwiches. 

 

Egg "boat" with caviar

Hard-boiled eggs cut in half lengthwise, remove the yolks, rub them with sour cream or mayonnaise (you can add grated cheese and finely chopped herbs to taste), fill the halves with a mixture of eggs. 
toothpick to put on the small "sail", made ​​of egg whites or slices of cheese and insert them into the "boat". 
On top of the "towers" can be put on boxes, carved from red pepper. 
Garnish with caviar and green.

Eggs with caviar butter, otsazhennym of pastry bag. Stocking halves of the eggs. "Fungi" of eggs or stuffed eggs. As a "cap" can be used halves of tomatoes, hats marinated, pickled or boiled mushrooms, slices of egg white, painted in hot strong tea or coffee, etc. on its own imagination. Simple decoration egg slices. 







Photo: supercook.ru

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