Fruit Animals

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Ingredients
Assorted fruit (apples, oranges, blueberries, bananas)
Vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, olives)
Smarties

Equipment
Chopping board, knife, cocktail sticks

Method
Chop up the fruit and vegetables to make three different animals. One big, one small and one fictional.

Suggestions include:

A banana dog
A crab from apples
A mouse from carrots
A potato tortoise
An insect from blueberries and olives
A fictional sea creature from everything

When you have made them put them in a line in order of their projected life spans.

This recipe was devised by Alex and Melody. They made elephants, mice, tortoises and two fictional creatures called a slugcumber and a charot. They explored ideas around learning through process, the lifespan of different creatures, why some animals live longer than others, how size can affect lifespan, that cells age at different rates, the variations in the number of mutations in a mouse vs an elephant and how to grapple with vast unknowingness.