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Go ahead and play with your food.

Don't play with your food. You've were told this over and over as a kid. Why? Why not play with your food? Why not make a mashed potato snowman? Why not test your hypothesis that peas will roll down celery sticks faster then carrot sticks. Why not attempt an abstract sculpture with what is left on your plate? Why do they want to suck the fun out of mealtime? I say play! PLAY PLAY PLAY! Play with your food. Enjoy it. Live a little - and loosen up. There is nothing wrong with a little food fun now and again.

Great Books about Playing With Your Food

Everyone Can Play With Food!

Have Fun with Food

Regardless of what you eat, regardless of what language you speak, regardless of where you live, everyone eats - so everyone can have fun with their food.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. Groucho Marx by katerha

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Food Fun Links

Ideas and inspiration for a great time with your food.

Kung Foodie Cooking: Food Sculpture - Play With Food
FamilyFun: 33 Ways to Have Fun With Food: Food can be as beautiful to look at as it is to eat. From adorable and edible crafts to delightful and delicious pieces of art, we offer a table-ful of fun ideas that will have you looking at food from a whole new perspective.
Veggie Art: It's okay to play with your food...sometimes.
Halloween Recipes: Halloween Recipes. Not all are spooky, but they have all been used at various Halloween parties over the years, hence their inclusion.
University of Kentucky Entomology for Kids: Insect-themed Food
Play With Your Food: Do you have trouble getting your child to try vegetables or finish his lunch? Try these simple, creative ideas for turning everyday meals into animals, games, faces, and more.
Food Film Festival: Plan a night around your food. This ia a guide to films about food by genre. Great guide!
luluTV - The Lemon Dudes: Cute lemon guys?! Flower tongues!?! When life gives you lemons, make some lemon dudes?!

Play With Your Food

Stop Action Rocks - Especially with food.

Professionals Who Play With Their Food

These artists are amazing at playing with their food. Their edible work is absolutly amazing!

Joost Elffers: Joost Elffers makes amazing animal art out of food.
Saxton Freymann: Saxton Freymann is a New York artist who creates emotional animals completely out of produce. His art career began in painting.
Maurice Bennett - The Toastman: Toast Art and Burnt Object Art from The Toastman of New Zealand. He even does portraits made from toast.

Fun With Food Items

Food Art

Fun With Food

Food Play Children's Books

These are a few great children's books that will open up your child's imagination allowing them to see more on their plate then just breakfast.

Professional Food Sculptures

What a way to dress up a table. These centerpieces are carefully crafted.

Food Humor Posters

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SRitchieable May 9, 2012 @ 2:13 am | delete

This is a fantastic lens, thanks for bringing all these great links on "playing with food" into one place. I've featured your lens on mine: http://www.squidoo.com/zoo-with-paper-animals-for-kids. Thanks for sharing!

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candidaabrahamson Mar 19, 2012 @ 9:40 am | delete

Hilarious. I had to create a food lens for this week's boot-camp training and could come up with nothing beautiful or serious. So I did one on trying to help my daughter learn to cook--in the days when cooking meant opening cans of unhealthy foods. The hilarity continues with this lens here in the featured lens section. I love a good laugh--thank you--and food humor is required when it comes to my daughter. Stop by some time if you ever want to see your food-humor name in 'featured-lens' lights! And keep those goofy pictures coming.

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TransplantedSoul Oct 14, 2011 @ 4:46 pm | delete

Your greek-onion charaters made my eyes "leek: with tears.

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orange3 Sep 7, 2011 @ 1:24 pm | delete

Great play with your food pictures!

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miaponzo Jul 15, 2011 @ 10:38 am | delete

Super fun food lens!s

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awelldressedbullet Nov 4, 2010 @ 10:13 pm | delete

I love it! Brought back such great memories, as a child I would drive my poor mother crazy playing with my food and doing everything but eat it, how she put up with me I will never know LOL

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cindylee10 Oct 2, 2010 @ 1:11 am | delete

I love your lens! Food can really taste good and look good as well! I am into animal face painting and i can certainly get a bit of inspiration here.