Raw art!

Raid your fridge for any leftover vegetables - they can make excellent tools for painting and printing.

Yesterday Madeleine and I found some mushrooms, broccoli, carrots and a cabbage leaf lurking in the bottom of my fridge (Mummy isn’t the best cook in the world, painting with vegetables seems much more fun than cooking!!).

We sliced a couple of mushrooms in half, diced one carrot and then sliced another length ways. We pealed one cabbage leaf off and cut a few stems of broccoli. We were now ready to paint!

Madeleine simply dabbed the vegetable into the paint and then either used it like a paint brush or as a stamp. The vegetables made lovely shapes, especially the head of the broccoli and the cabbage leaf.

At this point you are probably imagining a masterpiece - but most of Madeleine’s creations do end up looking the same - one day…

I’m sure there are other fruits of vegetables that work just as well…any suggestions…

Photo: http://flickr.com/photos/dey