Vegetable people craft

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Several months ago we planted a small spring vegetable garden that included three zucchini plants. I’ll be honest and say that I have not done the best job of tending to the plants. {sheepish grin}

One result is that we have ended up with a few ENORMOUS zucchinis on our vine that were simply too big to eat. So what was I do with do some humongous zucchinis? Turn them into a fun craft project for my kids, of course!

With just a few craft supplies, we turned our giant zucchinis into some really cute vegetable people. Perhaps this vegetable people craft will inspire your kids as well!

Note: For more fun craft ideas, see my arts and crafts for kids page.

To inspire my kids to have fun making their vegetable people, I set out a tray filled with goodies that included:

I then gave the kids a zucchini and some glue, and I let them get to work creating their vegetable people.

They got so creative with the materials, creating not just an eyes, mouth, and nose, but also eyebrows, jewelry and more!

Here is QBoy’s finished vegetable person.

And here is XGirl’s vegetable person.

Of course, given that we created this craft with real vegetables, we had to throw them out after a few days so they wouldn’t rot. My kids understood this, however, and were okay with it. At least we got to enjoy our vegetable people while they lasted!