Arts & Crafts
Getting kids to engage and play with veg is the first step to them developing a good relationship with healthy eating. If your child struggles with actually eating veggies, veg-based arts & crafts can be a gentle and fun way to get them more used to them.
get kids engaged and having fun
Veg-based arts & crafts are a simple, gentle and fun way to get kids engaging with veggies in a positive way, laying the groundwork of positivity and familiarity in order to encourage them towards eventually eating the veg.
Starting with arts & crafts, puzzles & games, and other veg activities that don’t involve them having to eat the veg will take the pressure off for a child, and make it easier to bring in sensory exploration of veg, helping to prep or cook the veggies, and eventually eating them.
We have loads of fun veg activities for kids at Simply Veg – here are some of our favourites, and tips for other ways to encourage a love of veg through arts & crafts.
Facemasks
Print out your favourite of our fab face masks, colour them in to make them your own, add some elastic and you are good to go!
Don’t have a printer? Why not try using our designs as a jumping off point to create your own with a piece of paper and pen?
Crowns
Print out your favourite of our creative crowns, colour them in to make them your own.
If you don’t have a printer you can just grab a strip of paper that fits around your child’s head as a band, then get a second piece of paper for them to design their own crown on to attach to it!
Colouring
Print out one of our many colouring sheets and colour in with your favourite colours. If you love art, why not see if you can design your own veg mandala by repeating veggies over and over in beautiful shapes?
Cut out and colour
Print out one of our TastEd veg images, colour them in or stick on torn up materials for a collage, then cut out the shape and fold to make your own standing vegetable. Or try grabbing some veg from in your house and draw it yourself, adding texture and colour with colouring pencils or collage materials.
Other ideas
If you don’t have a printer, why not grab what you do have and create your own veg-based art with your kids. You could try:
- Making a collage (use pictures from magazines or torn up paper or other materials)
- Painting or drawing a veg from the kitchen (try to capture the shadows and colours)
- Making a 3D model of a veg with clay, playdough or some other mouldable craft material
- Use snacktime to create fun veg faces and pictures on your plates before you all munch away!
…or come up with other fun arts & crafts veg-based activities based on what you have and what your imaginations can create!
Downloads
Art Wall
You can send in pictures of your kids having fun and doing crafty stuff and we’ll add them to our Art Wall so others can be inspired to have a go and get crafting!
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