Nutrition: Good Eats!

VEGGIES AND THE ARTS – Play with Your Food?

	Food and Nutrition Songs has dozens of ditties on everything from beans to zucchini. Learn, listen, sing along.
	The Vegetable Orchestra plays instruments made solely from fresh vegetables. See them in action on You Tube.
	See Vegetable Instruments for instructions for making many, including a carrot kazoo, watermelon drum, and radish clarinet.
	What if the world were made of food? Photographer Carl Warner’s A World of Food: Discover Magical Lands Made of Things You Can Eat (Harry N. Abrams, 2012) is a marvelous collection of color-coded miniature landscapes made entirely of edibles. “Orange,” for example, is an intricate tiny world of pumpkin cottages and carrot trees. All ages.
	Deborah Zemke’s Super Hero Food Doodles (Blue Apple Books, 2010) is a spiral-bound collection of step-by-step instructions for doodling such zany fruits and veggies as The Tomatonator, Colonel Kernels, and Alien Allium. Tear the pages out of the book and use them as place mats at a vegetable lunch. For ages 8 and up.
	Fruit and Vegetable Portraits is an art project for ages 9-14 in which kids create pictures based on the work of 16th-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Or with Louise Cognard’s Sticker Art Shapes: Arcimboldo (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2008), kids ages 5 and up can re-create Arcimboldo’s fruit-and-vegetable portraits with 70 reusable stickers.
	From Smithsonian magazine, see Arcimboldo’s Feast for the Eyes  for more information on Giuseppe Arcimboldo and his portraits.
	Make your own fruit and vegetable paints! See Nature Art for Kids or Paint Made from Berries.

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