Go ahead and play with your food.
Great Books about Playing With Your Food
Play With Your Food
Page after page of animals made of food. It is eerie how you can look into the eye of a head of lettuce and sort of understand him.
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Secret Life of Food, The
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Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food
Penn and Teller give great tricks and strategies to entertain yourself and others with food. Table magic!
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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.
Food Fun Links
- 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
Sesame Street - orange sings Carmen
Dancing Fruit
Fruit Snacks Dance
Foodnimania
NewNuma.com 11472 potato dance (short clip)
Vegetable Ducky
Professionals Who Play With Their Food
- 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
Play with Your Food: 30 Postcards
Awesome postcards to send for any old occasion. From the pages of the book "Play with Your Food"
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Play with your food - Pepper Magnet, 4" x 5"
This is such a cure magnet. Food that looks like a turtle's face!
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Silly Kiwi Art Print by Saxton Freymann, 28" x 22"
These kiwis have spunk. A great art print.
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Dogfood - Rain Dog, Fine Art Print by Saxton Freymann, 14x11
This pup with his acorn squash umbrella is adorable. Another great art print.
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Food Play Children's Books
Professional Food Sculptures
What a way to dress up a table. These centerpieces are carefully crafted.
Food Humor Posters
Feedback
Any thoughts or ideas for us? Anything you like in particular?
aquariann wrote...
Tee hee, what a fun, 5 star lens! Great photos of food creations.
Posted March 02, 2009
Pastiche wrote...
Love this topic-I have a book on it and tons of photos of food-freaks-in-nature! Faved, lensrolled to Halloween Crafts for Family Fun PLUS added a direct link in Halloween Food Crafts module! *****
Posted October 15, 2008
Jennifer_Janz wrote...
Great photos! As a professional food stylist I am always looking non-typical food art forms. Thanks for making me smile.
Posted July 16, 2008
stargazer00 wrote...
Playing with food is fun! I once made those hot dog octopi and served them on top of mac and cheese. Kids like it. 5 stars and a lensroll!
Posted May 09, 2008
Lilly wrote
You have wonderful lenses. This one is so fun. I love playing with food too. I love Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann books! (I made a silly "lemon dudes" video at http://www.lulu.tv/?p=13564 ) I love your Shel Silverstein lenses and Sesame Street too! Fantastic fun!
Posted April 12, 2008
chefkeem wrote...
I love this kind of stuff. It's so creative. For some reason I'm thinking about sand paintings by Tibetan monks - they get destroyed after they're finished, symbolizing the "fleeting nature of life". Food art is better - you get to eat it, symbolizing the "feeding nature of life"!
Posted April 11, 2008
