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    Crafts with Real Food

    Why throw away those dinner scraps when you can make beautiful art with them? Our real food crafts will also help teach your kids about what they're eating!

    We love these popular pasta-based crafts: How to Make Sunflowers with Paper Plates and Pasta, DIY Play Food Mac and Cheese and Gratitude Words Craft. And be sure to read our simple instructions to dye pasta for crafts.

     

    • Crafting with Food Scraps
    • Felt Turkey Craft with Squash
    • Fruit Turkey Platter
    • Strawberry Santa Hats
    • Bok Choy Roses
    • Egg Yolk Paint
    • Fake Mac and Cheese Craft
    • Marshmallow Snowman Craft for Kids
    • Fun with Melting Crayons on Pumpkins
    • How to Dye Pasta for Crafts
    • Peach Pit Rainbow Stamp Art
    • Paper Plate Sunflower Craft with Pasta
    • DIY Witch Decor with Eggplant
    • Easy Pancake Shapes
    • Peppers Art For Kids
    • Color Tortillas with Edible Paint
    • Sweet Potato Heart Stamps
    • Homemade Trail Mix
    • The Best DIY Cardboard Frame with Pasta
    • Falling Leaves Tree Craft
    • Rainbow Rice Letters
    • Butter Lettuce Necklace
    • Bow Tie Pasta Butterflies
    • Asparagus People
    • Rainbow Spaghetti Art with Words
    • Adorable Boat Craft with Avocado Skins
    • Homemade Shaker Instruments with Pasta
    • Quinoa Handprints
    • Ms. Potato
    • Lemon Volcano Experiment
    • Draw a Shrimp with Noodles
    • Gratitude Words Craft
    • Easiest Paper Snowflake with Pasta
    • Ghost Puppets with Rice
    • Sweet Roasted Chickpeas with Sugar and Cinnamon
    • Simple Painted Toast
    • Skeleton Veggie Tray
    • Adorable Snowman Candy Cane Holders
    • Sensory Cornmeal Sandbox

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    Julie & Marcie in kitchen

    We are two sisters with young kids who want to help simplify mealtime for busy families! Platein28 is our family’s unofficial guide to wading through mealtime chaos. Here you will find quality recipes that take 28 minutes or less, with activities to occupy your kids so you can actually cook.

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    • turkey burger sliders spread out on large plate
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    Kids Crafts & Activities

    • corn on the cob craft with paper
      Handprint Corn on the Cob Craft
    • pepper made from footprint with child's face pasted on
      Father's Day Footprint Craft
    • Drawing of an apple tree with a basket of apples and ladder on yellow paper, with leek food scraps as the tree leaves
      Crafting with Food Scraps
    • butternut squash decorated as turkeys
      Felt Turkey Craft with Squash
    • Child holding completed olive oil bottle craft with "Olive Oil" logo
      Play Food Olive Oil Bottle
    • turkey on a plate made with fruit slices and scraps
      Fruit Turkey Platter

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