The kids book project

Having kids, you read lots of books!

And I thought since
Ida Skivenes (@idafrosk) has her art project and the novel project and
Samantha Lee (@leesamantha) has her world in food project (amongst several others:)
that I wanted to have a project too.
I have the aussie natives project and the kids book project.
If you want to see what gets done, they will be under the label "kidsbooks" to the right.

My first book cover was Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found

And my second was also an Oliver Jeffers classic

How to catch a star.

What is your kids favorite books?

And what would you like to see made into foods?

Its a gloomy day in Sydney today, but thats fine: we had a magnificent week of full sun and up to 25 degrees c in the middle of winter, so Im not complaining now :))

I also wanted to post the pancake recipe I used for the "how to catch a star" cover. I got it from Doris (@dorisdk) and was very impressed!

Place
1/2 banana
1 egg
3 eggwhites
30g rolled oats
Vanilla bean or vanilla essence

Into the blender.
Mix.
Into squeeze bottle and draw then fry in coconut oil and enjoy!
I made a car for the boy this morning, since that was what he wanted..

What foodart would make your kid happy?
Do you ever make fun food for yourself or the kids?

What I do :)

There is so many who make foodart now; a lot of very clever and creative cooks.
Some make bento boxes for their kids (lunchboxes), some make amazing food art, some make lunches and dinners.
There is a huge variety of foodart going on these days!

What I do is just very simple and edible to a child. And anyone with basic knife skills can make what I make without any special tools, in about 5-15minutes.
I use these items:

-1 knife,
-toothpicks,
-scissors,
-(at random and rarely) I use a decorating kit.
-Sometimes some round things for making round shaped eyes or something.
I use glasses or the backside of the nozzles for my food decorating bottles.
I'm sure you have all you need in your kitchen!

On occasion, I use sandwich cutters, and they will always be in the blog with a link to where you can buy them.
I love cutters and the possibilities and the simplicity they provide.
I use them over and over.
They are great for melons and fruits, cookies and sandwiches alike.:

I love this hobby :)

Lil miss Easter-bunny

She is made of quite sticky rice, tomatoe (nose and butterflies) cucumber (bow), olive (eyes), apple (teeth and butterfly bodies.

Just shape the cooled down rice and add the tiny details.

This is super easy and makes dinner so much more fun, although I generally do all the other meals 

Balloon girl

The other day I bought Calvin a big punching balloon. Their just extra big and strong balloons with a rubber band in one end. He loved it!

He ran around like a crazy lil monkey the whole evening! Jumped with it on the trampoline and had a good deal of fun. Then he fell asleep with it next to him.
So then i got to thinking of Banksy's girl with the balloon and decided to made my own version. But instead of one balloon, she has many.

Calvin loves balloons so eating this took forever, as everytime we handed him a 'balloon' (because he kept staring at it without eating it) he just put it back in its place. When he had stared at it long enough, he put (almost) all the ~balloons~ in his mouth in one go and ate them all.

Toddlers!

Whats your toddlers favorite toy?

Passion for passionfruit

These are made of passionfruit.

Its a very fun fruit to make dotted yellow animals with :)
I simply shape the animal with my finger or q-tip.
And wipe away excess moisture with a paper towel.
Simple as pie :)

Whats your favorite dotted animal?

Plum Ponyo

We used the first 25 minutes of Ponyo as Calvins bedtimestory for about a year. It worked beautifully. The intro-song is so lovely and made him so sleepy. We have left movie-bedtimes behind and are now reading but he still loves Ponyo! Infact, he loves red heads! Ariel (Little mermaid), Ponyo and Merida (brave).

I think Ponyo is absolutely fantastic!
And this is my homage to the sweetest little girl!

She is made of peach (for face), red plum (for hair and dress), strawberry fins and the rest is sugar plum/plum jelly fish, pineapplesunrays, kiwi and sugarplum seaweeds and grapes as seafloor. Her eyes are almonds and offcuts of plumskin.
Everything is just cut to shape quite easily. The almond eyes took some time to get similar, but the rest was a breeze.

I hope you like her.

If you haven't seen Ponyo, you can see a little here: Ponyo On Youtube

Or buy the movie here.

Totoro!

My son loves Totoro, and has since he was really small!
The intro song makes him jump with joy and he shriek's along with Satski and Mei.
Our daughter Willow was named after Mei, only we chose to write it differently.

Totoro is made of Cinnamon ricepudding, which is why he is fittingly grey-ish <3 data-blogger-escaped-br=""> Made to shape. Cut the sultanas for the nose and eyes and whiskers
~ almond as the eyeballs.
Raining blueberries.
Standing on grape-grass.
Watermelon umbrella.

Ooooh how yummy this dessert was!

We LOVE Totoro!

The three little piggies

Built a house of sultanas, with kiwigrassroof and kiwigrass.
A banana sun with nectarine rays, and 3 hand cut pigs.
Very easily cut a deep chunk shaped like the head, and cut it in 3 pieces so it was 3 quite identical heads. Oval body shapes and grapepeel tails and snout holes. Eyes of sultana.

Im sure they were safe from the wolf, but not from Calvin who ate them up one after another ;)

I read on the picture my husband posted on reddit (the cute puppydog sandwich) that my son would become roothless since he could eat cute little puppies... Im pretty sure my son is bright enough to know the difference in cheese and real dogs... Don't ever underestimate 2,5 year olds! ;)

Peace.

Almond Bunny

Smelling a little flower.

A little Thumper inspired. Or little nutbrown hare. Or Peter Rabbit. 

All very beautiful bunnies, popular with the kiddoes :)
We read these as bedtime stories almost every night. 

  

I use organic raw almonds as they have the highest nutritional value. 

Like these

Worlds greatest animals

*trunksounds*

I used my lunch punch cutter on watermelon.
Then i made the palm with kiwi leaves, grape coconuts and mangotrunk.
Grape ground and strawberry butterflies. Everything is allowed in our little imaginary world <3
But in the real world, the elephants suffer.
They are used for circuses and they are being hunted for their ivory.

elephantconservation.org

Thank you <3

Baa baa black sheep

Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full..."
I sing the song and he learns. He points out what everything is.

C: "Sheep"
M: "What does the sheep say?"
C: "Baaa!"
M: "What's that?"
C: "Flower"
M: "And this?"
C: "Star"
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Grape wool, banana head, kiwi grass, strawberry flowers and Nectarine sun.

Calvin rearranged this whole picture before he ate it (and i think he liked his own version better!)
It was a good dessert before bedtime.

Healthy yummy treats are always appreciated with us :)

Sneaky fox!

Yummy sandwich!

I just put almondbutter on a sandwich and cut to shape. Blueberry eyes and grape nose and a bit of greek yoghurt to make the snout white.
Strawberry ears, kiwi grass and a little chia-strawberry ladybug :)

Enjoy :)) 

Have a lovely day, Deer.

Deer baby.

Made from almonds and sultanas.

I love making these so much!
I cut the almonds in half.
Thats pretty much it :)
Great snack and awesome way to get kids to eat the good stuff ;)

Does you kids like nuts and seeds?
Calvin likes seeds alot. And sultanas. And some nuts: pistacchio is a fav :)

I use organic yummy almonds, like these

VW

Volkswagen oldschool van.
Sandwich style!

I put cream cheese on a slice of bread and just cut it to shape (not too happy with this one, might try again!)
And then i cut the cheese to shape. The VW circle was tricky, and is not perfect. Need to practice this!
The bumper and windows are apples, the clouds are cheese and the surfboard is zuccini.

Yum yum in the tum!

All you need is love!

And a white peach and a sharp knife!

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Smily faces!

I love smiles!

And this is a great way to play with food and teach emotions at the same time!
All you need is an orange, some black grapes, a sugarsnappea and a strawberry.

Have fun (blowkiss)

0,5!

Our daughter Willow turned 6 months the other day and it was celebrated with a greek yoghurt sandwich shaped like a cupcake!

I am a bit strict with regards to sugar intake and try to keep it at a minimum. Calvin gets a tiny little bit of candy on saturdays, but during the rest of the week he is not getting much sugar at all. A lot of the reason is that he is very difficult with the toothbrushing. Another is that it is great to have some rules around sugar intake for kids.

Whay is your rules around sugar?
Do you have any rules that you just dont budge on that others might find strange or interesting?

Almond bird

I am now a big fan of almond/nut art!
Will definitely be doing more of these.

Do you like them?

Wishing you a lovely day or night.
xx

Im a big fan of organic Raw almonds. 

Yum!

Too much passion!

Blah!

This is a passionfruit that was just too full of himself!

I cut his face out as you would a pumkin. Very fun :) the boy loved it and is still playing with the head!

Be Brave!

Merida from Brave.

We don't let Calvin watch too full on movies (like cars 2 and brave for example!) but there are some parts in those movies that are really cute that he gets to see. Do you screen your kids movies too?

This is just a simple sandwich with grated carrot hair, zuccini cut eyes, cheese face, capsicum lips and lettuce and zuccini body. Cheese stars and zuccini bow and arrow.

It looks far more complicated than it is. I will put together a tutorial for cutting eyes eventually, but thats easy. :)

Sometimes when my son wakes up from his afternoon nap, he is super cranky. And sometimes i have lunch ready and he forgets his crankiness and sits down to eat instead.
Well, not THAT day! Merida ended up on the floor. Poor girl.

Atleast she was brave ;)