It’s not always easy to get people, especially kids, interested in food. In fact, when dealing with picky eaters, it can feel like you need a miracle to get them to take a bite. Well, while you wait for the miracle to come, you can try these magic tricks that are sure to get anyone excited about food.
Sinking Orange
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Ingredients: orange, glass of water
Instructions: fill a glass halfway with water, place the intact orange in and watch it float. Take the orange out, peel it, put it back into the glass and watch it sink.
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Banana Notes
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Ingredients: banana, toothpick
Instructions: etch a message into the skin of a banana and watch as, 15 minutes later, your message appears for all to see
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Milk Rainbows
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Ingredients: white plate, whole milk, food coloring, toothpick, dish detergent
Instructions: pour milk onto a plate, add a few drops of food coloring, wet a toothpick in dish detergent and put it in the milk to make your rainbows
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Easy Raisins
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Ingredients: grapes, oven, baking sheet
Instructions: place your grapes on a baking sheet and place them in the oven, bake them slowly until they’ve been dehydrated
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Mood Soda
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Ingredients: cups, clear soda, ice cubes, food coloring
Instructions: place drops of food coloring into the bottom of the cup and let them dry, place ice cubes over the dried coloring to hide it, and watch as someone who pours the clear soda into the cup looks on in amazement
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Colorful Cabbage
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Ingredients: glass, water, food coloring, cabbage
Instructions: put some food coloring at the bottom of a glass, place the bottom of a leaf of cabbage into the glass, and watch as the piece becomes that color over the next couple of days
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Instructions: boil the pot of water, cut the hot dogs into 1-inch pieces, poke the spaghetti through the pieces of hot dog, boil until the spaghetti is soft.
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(via Grandparents)
And now, for my next trick, I will make all of these foods disappear.
