Making food attractive is the key to developing your child’s interest in food. Here are a few suggestions on how you can make artistic food for your child:
– Use cookie cutters to cut fruits and veggies into various shapes.
– Buy a pack of edible googly eyes to add to foods.
– Arrange food on your child’s plate to look like a face or other recognizable image.
– Give foods imaginative names like “orange wheels” for sliced oranges, or “little trees” for broccoli or cauliflower.
– Let your child play with their food — at least for a short while — to foster a positive attitude toward it.
– Take note, though, that there’s one popular strategy some experts don’t recommend, which is hiding healthy foods in child-friendly packages.