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[rivka]

No one ever warns you, when you become a parent, that without warning you may suddenly become the sort of person who makes a hedgehog out of fruit.





The project came courtesy of Your Big Backyard magazine, which has turned out to be one of Alex's coolest Christmas presents. It's put out by the National Wildlife Federation, the same people who do Ranger Rick for older kids, and it has a similar focus on gorgeous photo essays of wildlife and stories about animal behavior. I've read our inaugural issue aloud at least ten times in the past two weeks. We are now all experts on hedgehogs.

This was one of the project suggestions in the "parents' pages" at the back. We just had to try it. And it turned out to be nicely pitched for the age group: Alex could do most of it without help. (I made the face from cloves, opened the can of pineapple, and cut the canteloupe into appropriately-sized bits.) So there you have it: a hedgehog. Made of fruit. It was delicious.

Comments

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

That's great! Make me appreciate my mother who read Dr. Seuss to me while she breast fed my brother. When he was older she used to go out in the shelter belt and hunt gorillas with wooden guns that my dad made for 'em.