If it’s one of those days when you’re stuck in the house with kids-a snow day, or the 40th day of rain, or a day just too hot to leave the air conditioning-get out a carving knife and the fruits and veggies from the crisper and create your own menagerie! What fun!Ī further search might introduce you to the delightful food art and photography of Saxton Freymann, published in a series of children’s picture books in collaboration with Joost Elffers. (Oct.Do a quick Google search for images related to “playing with food,” and this is a page that might pop up. This wish-I'd-thought-of-that compendium provides an excellent impetus for a craft session: the ingredients are cheap, and mistakes can be eaten as salad (if artists have the heart).
It's a sentiment as healthy as an apple a day, but the book's real charm is derived from the almost-ready-made ""sculptures""-as an afterword calls them. Meanwhile, the rhyming text draws comparisons between the emotive plants and its audience when it queries, ""Wired? Tired? Need a kiss?/ Do you know anyone like this?"" The plotless and largely superfluous narrative recommends expressing jealousy or affection (""When how you feel is understood,/ you have a friend, and that feels good""). Their groupings imply close relationships: lemons trade meaningful glances and a little onion cries. The animated groceries are exhibited, actual size or larger, against crisp hues of harvest gold, melon green or late-night-sky blue.
Without further ado, the veggie becomes a face, with a knobby stem or skinny root for a schnozzola an upended mushroom has a hilarious piglike snout, while a kiwi fruit has a button nose. Freymann and Elffers find a piece of ""expressive produce"" and attach two black-eyed peas for eyes. Photos of scowling oranges and gregarious scallions garnish this garden of delights from the creators of Play with Your Food.
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