I had intentions of doing the last 2 unplugged projects but the kids don’t always like my suggestions and even passed up “want to find rocks and paint them?”. This week is FOOD so there was no way for them to turn down that!

The first thing that came to mind was fruit (we’re having a fruity week as I’ve already posted about). I got out grapes and cut up a variety of fruit: mango, cantaloupe, bananas, apple, and kiwi for us to make fruit shish kabobs. The boys are big enough to use the sharp wooden skewers but Jamie isn’t so I gave the boys this snack during her nap time. Its just important to remind the kids that the sharp end is for stabbing the fruit and that they need to hold that end when they’re ready to eat it so they don’t stab themselves!

I figured this was a good time to experiment with the GREEN smoothies I have been thinking about. I made them for the kids without telling them that the green was from spinach (I’ll fill them in on that once they’re hooked on them and won’t care). I put some OJ in the blender and then filled it loosely with spinach. I blended that up a bit and then added 2 bananas and some cantaloupe and mango I had already cut up. I added some brown sugar because I was nervous it wouldn’t be sweet enough and then I added about 3 cups of chopped ice. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it! I poured the boys some in their dino cups and said it was a green dino smoothie. Ben loved it and drank all of his but Ethan didn’t like it (although he tried it twice to be nice). Jamie also loved it. John didn’t think it was bad but didn’t want any. I’ll have to try out different combos but for my first attempt I think it was great that 3 of us gave it a thumbs up.

*Update: today I made a purple green smoothie and all 3 kids liked it! I used a lot of spinach, OJ and frozen blueberries with 1 banana, 1 mango and some frozen strawberries. It was a dark purple since I added so many blueberries, otherwise I’m sure it would have been a gross brown.

Some other food ideas I thought about doing:

1. vegetable/fruit prints: I used to cut up interesting ingredients and give my art students paint to make prints. They would make things like scenes or just colorful abstracts. I did this with my own kids a few times but not in a while. We have old celery and some rubbery broccoli in the fridge and thats a great use for it so if the kids want to we can do it this week.
2. jello mold with fruit crossed my mind but I was too lazy this week
3. decorate your own cupcakes was another idea but my kids would have just eaten the frosting
4. make your own pizzas

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