Fruit Fun!

    So Monday we did a little bit of lecture but mainly we learned about fruit. We peeled cantaloupes and honeydew melons...soo yummy! My favorite part was learning to make a Bird of Paradise :) See.....

 

 

     It was neat to be able to try this, it was hard but sooooooo much fun! It is all from one apple, you start by cutting a small piece off the apple to make a flat spot. Then you slice about a half inch slice after that flat spot and you set that aside. Next you simply take the rest of your apple, flat side down, and make one "v-cut" after another, deep toward the core, until you have as many layers as you want. Do this three times across the front of the apple and you have the body of the bird. The head was the hard part because you have to carve that yourself..and for some one like me, who can't picture things in her head, it's HARD! O_0   You just have to decide how much curve you want in the neck, then carve it out of the 1/2 inch apple slice we set aside earlier, attach it with a tooth pick and you now have you Bird of Paradise! Whooo!  REMEMBER to put at little lemon water on your apple to help keep it from turn brown too fast..nobody really loves brown birds.. :D
     Here are some other pictures of the whole classes work all together, some really good melon baskets.....OH and we got too eat what we wanted when class was over... Bonus!