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V is for Vegetable

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Ages 3 and Up

Duration: Over One Hour

Introduce these vitamin-rich foods to your kids by creating fun Veggie Stamps!

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Make Veggie Stamps

WHAT YOU NEED

Newsprint
A selection of firm vegetables such as: carrots, celery, green pepper, artichokes, mushrooms.
Small kitchen knife (parents only)
Acrylic paint in your favorite colors
Disposable plates (one for each paint color)
Plain-colored paper (Long sheets of butcher paper for making wrapping paper, 11 by 17 inch construction paper for making a placemat)

HOW TO DO IT

Cover your work area with newspapers
Place your vegetable selection on the work area
(Parents Only) Use the kitchen knife to cut the vegetables in half. Make sure you make an even cut across the length or width of the vegetable. This will give you the best possible imprint.
Pour one color of paint in each plate. Spread it out to a smooth, thin surface.
Dip the cut vegetable into the paint and gently place it on the paper you have chosen.
Let the paper dry completely before using it.

TIPS

Try cutting the same vegetable in different directions and dipping it in contrasting colors for an interesting design!

WHAT YOU NEED

1 sheet each of orange and green craft foam
1 sheet of self-adhesive craft foam
Safety scissors
1 key ring or 1 foot of ribbon or twine
1 black permanent marker
Several sheets of heavy white construction paper
1-hole punch (1/4 inch)
Veggie Stamps (see directions above)
1 pack of crayons or colored markers
Pictures of vegetables from magazines

HOW TO DO IT

Print out the book templates. Template 1. Template 2.
Cut two carrots from orange craft foam and two carrot tops from green craft foam.
Cut two whole carrot shapes from self-adhesive black craft foam. (You can use the book pages template for this).
Remove the protective sheet from each of the two black craft foam carrot shapes and adhere the carrot and carrot top pieces to each adhesive side of the black craft foam.
Punch holes through each of the completed carrot shapes as indicated on the template.
Use the page template as a pattern to cut out pages for the inside of the book.
Start filling the pages of the book with pictures or veggie stamps of vegetables that your child loves or has already tried.
Take your child to the supermarket with you to choose new and interesting vegetables to taste and add to the book. Suggest they add comments next to each vegetable's picture. For example: I love when we add mushrooms to my spaghetti.

Make Vegetable Recipes

Apricot Honey Glazed Carrots
Bumps on a Log

FOLLOW UP FUN

Make a Mini Herb Garden
Learn more about the Food Pyramid by making a Muffin Tin Lunch
Suggested reading:

Vegetables in the Garden by Pascale DeBourgoing and Jeunisse Gallimard (PS – 3)
Vegetables, Vegetables by Fay Robinson (1 – 2)

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