Placemats are handmade. Sheets can be slipped into placemats.
Children's artwork can also be slipped into placemats.
Kids love playing with their food. You'd like your kids to eat healthier.
Picasso Plates makes eating healthy a matter of art.
See the Guide Sheet below.
Picasso Plates
14 Poems | 15 Photos
Kids make art out of healthy food
$2 per 8.5 x 11 Sheet | $6 for 4 sheets
$10 for sheet & Transparent Placemat
$18 for 2 placemat sets
$30 for 4 placemat sets
All placemat orders include Guide Sheet.
Order from the order page on this site.
Dish is Destiny. Plate is Fate. Art is Edible. Eat what you Take.
The following is an excerpt from the Guide Sheet.
STEPS IN MAKING A FOOD FACE.
1_Select food items (see Foods to Use) from the fridge and pantry.
2_Wash fruits and veggies.
3_Watch quietly as your mother, father, older sibling, grandparent, nanny, daycare provider, or household robot carefully slices the apples, pears, red peppers, celery, and strawberries into shapes perfect for making food faces.
4_Help organize the cut-up food items into bowls.
5_Help carry the bowls to the lunch or dinner table.
6_Oh, and don't forget to get a plate for yourself and anyone else at the table.
7_Get the napkins, too.
8_Do you have a drink yet? Milk is fine. Orange juice or apple juice or sometimes just water is good.
9_Think about what kind of a food face you want to make. This takes some time because you don't want to grab too much food and not be able to eat it. And you don't want to grab brussell sprouts for eyes if you aren’t going to eat the brussell sprouts.
10_Carefully remove food items from the bowls and arrange them on your plate. You can make eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, cheeks, ears, earrings, hair, hat, beard, mustache. Lots of stuff.
11_Don't pick up your plate while you're making your food face because all the stuff will roll around and mess up your food face. Instead, ask your brother or sister or friends or whomever to come look at the food face you made.
12_If you want, you can take a picture of your food face.
13_Decide what part of the food face you’re going to eat first. Then eat it.
14_Continue eating your food face.
15_Yes, you have to eat all of it. If you took something from a bowl and put it on your plate, then you have to eat it. If it's junk food like potato chips or fries or cookies or dessert, then you don't have to eat it. You never have to eat junk food. That's why it's called junk food: because you can throw it away. No, lettuce and green beans are not junk food. You have to eat those.
16_Hey, did you name your food face? Do that. Don't forget to name your food face. Good names often start with "Crazy Mister" and then you add a name or "Silly Queen" and then you add a name. For example, Crazy Mister Bean Nose or Silly Queen Lettuce Head. Get it? You try.
