Food as Art

Tonight I was trying to hard boil some eggs and boil and purée some carrots, and needed to keep Mara occupied and happy while I was at the stove.  I plopped her in her high chair and gave her some spoons to play with.

However, she kept flinging them onto the floor.

The escapee plasticware

So I decided to give her something a little more interesting to play with..... prunes! 

She did some fruity fingerprinting and painted her high chair brown.

"Do you like it Mommy? I call it, Ode to a Shriveled Fruit That Has Been Puréed!"