Vegetable Caterpillar Kitchen Fun
Two weeks ago I announced a new category on the blog Kitchen Fun and my hope to create some fun ideas for kids and with my daughter. Last week we scooped and carved melons and this week we created some creatures from vegetables.
I really wasn’t sure what we were going to make. Sylvia and I discussed snails and ladybirds but in the end, we went for a Caterpillar. We used tomatoes, sliced cucumber and black olives joining the veg together with cocktail sticks.
We also made some Babybel flowers. We cut out the stalks from cucumber and created the flower shape using a cheese knife. Again a very simple idea but very effective.
Finally we created a butterfly from cucumber with olive eyes and pepper add to the effect, however my husband joined in and added the flowers to the butterfly and made it into a crab. I kind of liked his idea better. I guess this must have a creative streak too.
I’m no expert and we are in our early days of experimenting and creating fun foods we can eat afterwards. I’m pleased with our progress so far and hope you like our designs.
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About Angela Milnes
Angela Milnes is a Qualified Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has studied nutrition for children and has also taught cooking skills to adults. Angela loves to share family meals and easy instant pot recipes here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!
Ahh! These really made me smile. They are awesome.
Those flowers are so cute! I think I will have to give them a go for my girls x
Thanks Kim. I think the babybel flowers are cool!
Love the Babybel flowers and the caterpillar – such great ways of making food fun 🙂
Thanks Louise. It was really fun. I really do enjoy this type of thing even though I cant yet do it as often as I’d like to.
Such awesome ideas, presentation can be key!
I agree. I’m still new to this but hope to get my skills improving over the weeks and months.
these are really fun ideas! and would definitely make them eat more vegetables. the caterpillar is my favourite 🙂
It is so fun! We had fun making these.
These are fab, very creative. I might make these for my little one x
I’m glad you like them!
These are amazing! What a great idea. Need to get my boys in the kitchen more will definitely be giving this ago.
Thanks Daniella. 🙂
That is so creative and an excellent way of getting children to eat vegetables.
Thanks Melissa!
I love them I think they are adorable especially the veggie caterpillar. It is such a nice idea xx
Glad you like them. I loved this!
This looks very fun and creative too. You can have lots of fun with stuff in the kitchen x
Thanks 🙂
These made me smile. Such a cute little idea. I love them.
Oh I’m glad they did. We love having fun in the kitchen!
What a brilliant way to get kids to eat more salad veggies, these look so fun.
It was fun. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
This looks like so much fun and your husband’s crab is super cute! 🙂
Thanks 🙂
The Babybel flowers are so cute! I love your creativity, definitely put a smile on my face haha xo
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thanks lovely.
These are ADORABLE!!!! The Babybel flowers are my favs, but caterpillar is a very close second… 😉 x
Thanks. I’m glad you like them!