Vegetable people craft

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:

• buttons
• sequins and spangles
• yarn
• googly eyes
• pom poms
• dried pasta

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!

More arts and crafts ideas

More arts and crafts posts from Gift of Curiosity:

• 20 ways to use liquid watercolors
• Constellation craft
• Crystallized snowflakes
• Painting with strings
• Recycled crayon craft
• Leaf collages
• Easy seed medallion craft
• Coffee filter chromatography

For more fun art projects, see my Arts and Crafts for Kids page and my Arts and Crafts Pinterest board. 

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