Monday, August 06, 2007
$7 for vegetables


Have you seen the book Play with your Food? It came out about ten years ago, though Cole and Harper have just discovered it. Actually, they fight over who gets to look through the book, which is oh-so-fun. The book is filled with wonderful photographs of simple fruits and vegetables that suddenly become animated due to their inherent qualities. For example, a sweet potato with an oblong shape becomes a pig with a snout, and a set of 3 grapes with stems is turned into an ant with antennae and legs.

So anyway, we like the book. So much so that we were inspired to take a trip to the Farmer's Market last week to pick up the oddest looking vegetables we could find. Cole had a lot of fun stuffing various vegetables into a big brown bag, though I think the woman who rang up our purchase was not quite as delighted by the fact that we only bought one of each thing...which is maybe why we paid $7 for the following collection of items. I feel like there was some extra "handling" fee added for her trouble.


After Harper went down for her nap we put the assortment of produce in front of us on the table and waited to be inspired. Some of the items had a lot of potential, but unfortunately, we soon discovered that animating vegetables does not come very naturally to us.

Here's what we ended up with:
a mouse


an elephant (on a side note, Harper calls elephants "woos" because of the trumpeting sound they make when they raise their trunks)


and a lopsided walrus (with some peppercorns stolen from Mark's stash of cooking stuff)



Thankfully, eating fruits and vegetables does come quite naturally to us, and we made short work of the peach, the pear, the green apple, the green pepper, and one lemon.

PS. We decided the beans were "snakes" and left them as is.

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 2:41 PM  
6 Comments:

  • At 4:04 PM, Anonymous megan said…

    Too cute! I always love book recommendations for kids - we'll have to check it out. Love your creations! :)

     

  • At 8:52 PM, Anonymous ashley said…

    Too funny!

     

  • At 9:24 PM, Blogger Crystal Johnson said…

    The price of the food seems cheep when you think about how much fun and what a great experience this was!

     

  • At 10:54 PM, Blogger Hilary said…

    I remember Spencer LOVING that book when he was just about Harper's age.
    You are such a fun mom.

     

  • At 9:35 AM, Anonymous nanny said…

    What a fun thing to do! I can just see Cole picking out those fruits and veggies. I bet he had a blast!

     

  • At 11:07 AM, Blogger Jamie said…

    Too cute! Thanks for sharing.

     
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