PlantZombie Family

Here is our PlantZombie Family! Yes, they are healthy creatures cozz they are made of healthy fruits and vegetables with plenty of vitamins and minerals. Healthy creatures live for long. Hahahh long live our ghosts and zombies! And If you consume them, you would live even longer. Hmm, what a nice way of convincing our dear little friends to have their fruits and vegetables in disguise of zombies and ghosts. So, let's pave way to enjoy our fun-filled crunchy and healthy snacks of zombies and ghosts. I carried out this project with my bestfriend and we had lots of fun. Note that part of my inspiration was from my favourite game Plants vs Zombies.

Apples of different colors

Capsicums of different colors

A knife

1 or more bowls

A large tray (oven tray)

Smarties sweets (optional)

Tinkercad / paper and pencil for design

A chopping board (optional)

Excited about it? Let's go! Bring together all the raw edibles fruits and vegetables. I found colorful capsicums and a red apple from my refrigerator and so I took them out. I washed the fruits and vegetables thoroughly and put them in a clean bowl. The thought of those crunchy watery capsicums and the red apple syrup already watered my mouth.

Yes, our little ghost design with the free and easy-to-use Tinkercad app. I made a sample and had fun using simple technological tools in it.

Making reference to the Internet, I continued designing some cute funny zombie and ghostly type creatures which I really liked. I attempted making a small family of zombies on paper with the help of my bestie.

Then, we took a knife each and started making shapes as per the designs on paper, attempting to combine the different colors in such a way that they appear appealing to see. We used mainly red, creamy white and green as colours. The sooner we were done with a creature, we positioned it on the large tray where we would keep all the creatures together to form the PlantZombie Family.

Since we are living in a circular economy where attempts are being made to minimise waste material, we tried to use almost all parts of the fruits and vegetables, even the tiny parts. We used some apple seeds as eyes, some capsicum seeds as spider legs.

If you wish to, you may use some artificial sugars like the Smarties in some parts of the creatures as I did but it would be great if no artificial sugar or sweet is added, making the food more healthy to eat. Pure honey may also be added for better taste on the creatures made from apple.

Choose and alter the creatures' position in such a way that the the PlantZombie Family is visually appealing to you.

Here, we are! The final look of our PlantZombie Family, ready to be swallowed to remain hale and hearty. We had Halloween party fun with those crunchy healthy creatures.

Time to savour our crunchy PlantZombie Family after taking some photos! My bestie took the apple creatures while I took the capsicum creatures in my mouth. Admiring those funny creatures and then from our hands straight to our mouth. That was fun!

That was a super easy project that is not really time consuming. It can be accomplished by the teens and children themselves or in company of their parents. If ever only the children are making the project, it is to be ensured that they don't make use of too sharp-edged knife and that they take fruits or vegetables like apple and capsicum which are easy to deal with.

• Health is Wealth
• Refuse, reuse, reduce, re-purpose, recycle
• we cannot make food better than nature