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Kids Fun, Art and Healthy Wellbeing
Written by Julia Gorham
Encouraging healthy eating habits for young children.
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Fruity Flower Sculptures
Written by Julia Gorham
These colourful fruit sculptures were a great hit in my classroom and the children loved eating their pretty, fruity flowers too!
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Wash the fruit
Watch your child marvel at their beautiful fruity, flower, healthy creations and enjoy the tasty fruits too!
Encouraging healthy eating habits for young children is important and this is where it starts!
How do you persuade your children to enjoy healthy food? It often helps to create interesting forms to ignite their curiosity and desire to try different foods. Today we will share how to make a butterfly out of apples, celery and a bit of cottage cheese.
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Let the children taste it and enjoy!
Creating food sculptures is an excellent idea to promote healthy eating habits for young children in a fun and creative way!
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Written by Julia Gorham and Heather Step
During our Holiday Crafts programme, the children made pinch pots with homemade clay. They loved rolling the clay between the palms of their hands and pushing down hard with their thumbs in the middle to make pinch pots.
Sensory interaction between child and materials are foremost. The goal should be as much direct contact with the hands and materials as possible.
Impressions: Give your child objects with interesting textures to press into the dough or clay. For example: Plastic forks, lids, keys, coins potato mashers and other washable items.
Stick sculptures: Use a lump of clay or dough as a base in which to insert materials such as sticks, toothpicks, pipe cleaners, straws, buttons and we also use natural items from our nature walks with pine cones, acorns, twigs, dried grass etc.
Playdough with colour: Let you child colour their own playdough by dropping a small drop of food colouring or liquid paint onto the homemade playdough and allow them to mix it.
Geometric shapes: clay on the table and then moulding it. This is a great Montessori extension with the Montessori geometric solids. Older children can use clay to make forms such as cubes, spheres, prisms etc. by tapping the clay on the table and then moulding it. This is a great Montessori extension for the Montessori geometric solids.
Pinch pots: Get your child to make a ball, press his thumb in the middle of the ball and then pinch the clay or playdough gently between his fingers and thumb to make a pinch pot. Making sure that your child widens the centre and thins the sides equally. Your child can then roll small dough eggs to place inside the pinch pot.
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This recipe is taken from Family Education
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Note that it is better to use the clay immediately as it doesn’t keep well, even in a Ziplock bag.
We painted the clay and also sprinkled glitter on it. I used cupcake liners to contain them.
Other people have created beautiful pinch pots with thinner sides – check out this other stunning picture to the right. It really shows that there is a lot you can do with this idea. 
These cute dolphins make a tasty snack and will aid in your child’s love of healthy food.
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What a great way to promote healthy food sculptures for young children!
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Try this flop proof, easy recipe to make yummy, vanilla biscuits with your child
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Let your child have fun with colourful watermelon and cucumber flower sticks!
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Press a flower cookie cutter into the sliced water melonFruit art to make with your children encourages healthy eating habits and is a good way to introduce different fruits . When I introduced the kiwi fruit to the children, this was their first taste of the unusual, kiwi fruit, and they loved it!
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By Julia Gorham