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Fun Fruit and Veggies Crafts for Kids

By: Corey Landis

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Fruit goes beyond the salad when used as a container for flower arrangements, other fruit, or fantasy fruit creations. Choose brightly colored fresh fruit without blemishes. Under ripe fruit works better since it's firmer. If the fruit is to be eaten wash thoroughly. Dip sliced fruits in a mixture of one part lemon juice to four parts water to prevent the fruit from browning.

Fruit as Vases
Hollow out fruits and use them as vases. Round fruits with thick skins such as watermelons, cantaloupe and pumpkins may need to have a very thin slice taken off the bottom so the fruit is stable and even. Have an adult help little hands with knives. Fruit that's more pliable such as citrus may need a bit of pressure applied to flatten out their base. Scoop out the insides with a spoon or ice cream scoop. Arrange flowers directly in the hollow area or place a waterproof container in the hollow and the flowers in the container. While most people think of squash, eggplant and peppers as vegetables, technically they're fruits. Eggplants look stunning with purple or yellow flowers. Try yellow squash with dwarf sunflowers. Green apples set off red roses. The boxy shape of sweet peppers are perfect for a vase. Peppers come in yellow, red, orange and green. Match the flowers to the color of the pepper or contrast the colors.

Fruit in vases
Fill a clear vase with small fruits and place stems of flowers among the fruit. the fruits hold the stems in place and hide them as well. Cranberries, kumquats and key limes all look good in vases and are small enough to make room for flower stems. Blueberries work but won't last more than a day or so. Soft berries, like strawberries, deteriorate too quickly to use.

Slice citrus fruit. Have the kids place the slices between a large vase and smaller vase of the same shape. Fill the smaller inner vase with flowers. Or slide round fruits like grapes, strawberries, and melon balls on skewers and use the fruit filled skewers the same way you would flowers in the vase.

Fruit with fruit
Make an edible fruit arrangement by sticking strawberries, pineapple cut in petal shapes, apples sliced and then cut into flower shapes, star fruit cut in slices on wooden skewers. Stick the skewers into a melon that has the top cut off but the fruit left in.

Portraits
Create a portrait using fruits. Giuseppe Arcimboldo is the most well known artist who used fruit as the basis of his portraits of people for the Hapsburg Court in Vienna in the middle of the sixteenth century. Follow his lead and use real fruit to create an edible fantasy portrait.

Children can make silly portraits with fruit with a little help from adults. Use a large round fruit as the head. Stick on eyes, nose, hair, and mouth made of berries, slices of fruits, or small whole fruits with toothpicks.

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Find more Gardening Tips Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction books and the novel "Over Time." Her latest screenplay, "Lightning and Shadows," written with Brian Hill has been optioned by Roads End Films. Dee writes on how to get out of debt. More kids crafts ideas at Party Ideas for Kids

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