Vegetable Flower Bouquets

Today’s class was another big success.  We started the morning coloring in beautiful pictures of flowers and finished with beautiful vegetable flower bouquets.  This kids all had fun arranging their “flowers”  and EVERYONE tasted at least one new veggie!  Woo Hoo!  This adorable bouquets are so simple to make and a great way to encourage your kids to eat more vegetables.

Start off by filling the cups with celery sticks.  These will act as your flower stems.

Use a dot of cream cheese as glue to stick small carrot discs onto the cucumber flower (you can make the flowers using cookie cutter or by cutting small wedges out of the cucumbers and then slicing them into 1/2 inch thick pieces)

Stick the vegetables on the toothpicks and the toothpicks into the celery stalks

So proud of our beautiful bouquets!

Vegetable Flower Bouquets

Small vases, cups, jars or juice glasses.

Celery, cut in half

Baby carrots, cut into small discs

Cherry tomatoes

Cucumbers

Cream cheese

Flower shaped cookie cutter

Toothpicks

Directions:

Fill the cups with the celery sticks.

Use cookie cutters to cut flower shapes out of cucumbers and then use a dot of cream cheese as glue to stick the pieces of carrots onto the cucumber flower.

Stick the vegetables on the toothpicks and the toothpicks into the celery stalks.

If you want to get fancy, you can place lettuce leaves or baby bok choy leaves around the bouquet.