Very Hungry Caterpillar Theme Food !!!

I wanted to have all the food that the hungry caterpillar eats in the book for the party. But to find good strawberries and grapes in december was really hard and also I was not sure how to avoid browning of apples, pears etc. So dropped that idea. And tried to 'caterpillar'-ise whatever food I was having for the party:)

First made these sugar cookies and decorated them with icing.  They are not perfect, but it works for the kids and me ;)

Rotini pasta with 'caterpillar topping' made of circles cut out of green pepper for the body, circle tomato for the head and olive pieces for the eyes, legs and antennae!!

Mini cup cakes from Publix which I decorated with 'caterpillar toppings' made of m&ms. To draw other details i mixed chocolate syrup with confectioners sugar and piped it:)

This is 'A very healthy caterpillar' made of cucumbers, tomato and olive bits !!!

The caterpillar gummies....

 

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Bread faces...

This was one of the hit activities at putti's birthday party. Kids loved the fact that they could eat their creations. Gave all the kids a slice of bread and cheese. Then offered them various toppings to choose from like peas, chickpeas, olives, mushroom, tomato, carrot, braccoli, corn etc. They loved making eyes, nose with these. It was cute how each of their bread faces looked. Some ate the toppings  and went on to create new face:)

   

  

Maybe if i had some noodles or spagetti boiled, it would have been more fun to use as hair.

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Splish Splash Paint Cake..

I had to search all over the net for art theme cake, but most were either 'art pallette' or 'crayon' cake. Since putti is not yet familira with the palette, i chose crayon cake. But unfortunately the lady who bakes fish shaped cake for putti's bday last year said she will be out of town for holidays. And I dont know anybody else in my town who does costum design cake. So my only option was 'Publix'. Thats when i thought of this 'splish splash paint cake' As a trial i made one for putti's star birthday. First made dough in two colors and followed instructions here to get the nice pattern.

 

And after baking and frosting, i gave liquid food colors to putti and asked her to splatter the colors on the cake. She loves flicking the bristles. Later she insisted that she wanted to write too.. so i held her hand and wrote on the cake.

I took a picture of this cake to publix and ordered an exact one. They made this, loved the bright colors, but its not what i expected. But i was happy when everyone liked.

 

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Sweet Crayons

Along with the usual chocolates, i wanted to add some sweet treat to go with the art theme. Inspired by these edible crayons, i made some sweet crayons for the kids. First searched for long, thin candies. And once i found them. I printed labels for them on construction paper. Later cut the candy to required size and wrapped the label around it. Used sticky tape, dint want to use glue. Trimmed one end sharp so as to mimick a crayon. And finally added them inside empty crayon boxes. I also added a note on the box saying "Sweet crayons eat them" !!

  

  

 

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Rainbow Idlis..

Putti is not a picky eater. But she eats very very small quantity no matter whats on the plate. I know you would say "Most kids are fussy eaters". But somehow i feel mine is the worst. She doesnt eat pizza, nuggets, cookies, candies.. Just 1-2 bites or licks and she is done!! It drives me crazy. So I am always on look out for little cheats to make her eat. This is one such - The rainbow idlis as i call them.
To the idli batter i add little amount of veggie juices (Spinach for green, Beets for red, Blueberries for blue and turmeric for yellow). Maybe you can use carrots for yellow/orange too. Currently this is a hit:)

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