Project: Veggie Bling Bling.

A project done by Marije Volgezang to encourage children to eat their veggies. Project description as taken from her website below:

"A child’s mouth is like a rich toolbox. With these razor sharp tools and some everyday kitchen tools they can attack carrots, raddish, tomatoes and sweet peppers.

While making the bling-bling, lots of chewing and nibbling is going on. Psychological research states that children need to taste something 7 times before getting ajusted to a new flavour. Our model Juni (2,5) never liked carrots, but she did eat all her earrings! While playing with the vegetables, children make up new uses to decorate themselves and new stories come into being: ’I am an elf with elf-ears. So I need a magic wand!" And thus, a new wand is being nibbled."

all images are taken from her website.

make eating fun. let the experiencer be part of the design process.