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Description

Design your own character, and use fruit and vegetables to bring them to life.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/fruity-fables/

Resources

Wooden skewers
Cocktail sticks
Chopping boards
Plates
Knives
Coloured pens or pencils
A4 paper
A selection of different fruit and vegetables


Take it further
You could make the most of the fruits and vegetables by dismantling the characters to make fruit salads or smoothies – make sure you’ve removed all of the cocktail sticks and skewers.

Instructions

Gather the vegetables
- To minimise the cost when running this activity for a large group, you could ask local supermarkets in advance if they’re able to give away fruit or vegetables which pass their ‘best before’ date on the day you are doing this activity.
- You could also try using lower cost fruits and vegetables, including dried and tinned fruit.
- You could also ask people to bring any leftover fruit and vegetables they may have at home.

Design the characters
1. Everyone should think about their favourite stories, and the characters which make them so good. What do they like about them?
2. Give everyone a piece of paper and a pen. Everyone should design their own character – they could be a superhero, an animal, a robot, or anything else they can imagine. Characters need a name and personality, as well as a life story.
3. Show everyone the selection of fruit and vegetables available. Everyone should think about what they will use to create each part of their character, and label their drawing.

Make the characters
1. Everyone must wash their hands.
2. Gather around a table, and give everyone a plate (or chopping board).
3. Everyone should create their character with the fruits and vegetables. Use the skewers and cocktail sticks to hold them together. An adult must supervise if the knife is used to chop the fruits and vegetables. [This is a great opportunity to talk about the fruits and vegetables you are using, especially if people haven’t tried some of them before.]
4. Everyone should share their character, and their story, with the others.

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