How to make vegetable lego
This vegetable game is a perfect activity for kids. It’s not only a good, low-cost craft activity for a rainy day, but getting them engaged with vegetables could even spark an interest in helping on the allotment or eating their greens.
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To make vegetable lego all you need to do is watch our video on how to carve vegetables – a bit like they do in Thai restaurants for garnish, but a lot simpler. You can make anything you like, and in our video you’ll see snails, turtles, frogs, crocodiles, penguins and racing cars.
Because vegetable carving involves using a very fine, sharp knife, we’d advise an adult to do the cutting and then involve the kids in the assembling.
What you need
- Fruit and vegetables such as hard green apples (such as Granny Smiths), radishes, carrots and cucumbers
- A fine, sharp knife
- A chopping board
- Cocktail sticks
How to make a vegetable lego racing car
- Chop the cucumber in half and carve a slither off the bottom of the cucumber so that it sits flat on the chopping board. This is the body of your car.
- Next create the cockpit by carving a square out of the top. This is where the driver will sit.
- You might like to add a number to your car, carving it into the bonnet.
- To make the wheels, slice four rounds of carrots and stick them on each side using a cocktail stick that has been chopped into three.
- Add a hubcap to each carrot wheel, made out of the very tip of a radish.
- The driver, whose head peeks out of the cockpit, is made of a whole radish. You can carve a shallow figure of eight-type shape into the front, so he looks like he’s wearing white goggles. Place him into the cockpit using a cocktail stick.
- Stick two small batons of carrots to the back of the car, as the double exhaust pipe.
There you go – your very own vegetable lego racing car! And remember, if you make any mistakes, don’t worry; you simply get to eat them.