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LaboratoryFruit Critter Mission
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The Fruit Critter Mission
Progress is often the result of thinking beyond what most folks think.
For example, if we thought fruits and vegetables were only for eating, we never would have invented powerful medicines, beautiful musical instruments, efficient lubricants and the all- important food fight!
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The Fruit Critter Mission
The Problem:The world needs more creative thinkers to fix the messes past generations have left us.
Your Mission: Find new ways of using funny-looking fruits and veggies that will make people laugh and think.
Think outside the box!
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The Fruit Critter Mission
Let’s start with a storyline, poem, song, cartoon strip or joke that will make folks laugh.
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Tools and Materials
Look for some funny look’n fruits and veggies in the super market for your head:•Turnip•Garlic head•Ginger root•Sweet potato•Gourds•Chayote squash
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You’ll need a collection of cups, cans, and bottles which can serve as bodies for your critter.
Bottle caps and plastic spoons can make pretty good eyes.
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Collect craft supplies and tools, especially:•Scissors•Sharpie market•Glue gun (or tape)•White and colored paper or card stock•Colorful sheets of ‘Foamies’•Pipe cleaners•Yarn•Tooth picks•Wooden skewer sticks•Colorful cloth•Beads, buttons or jewelry•Feathers
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Modular Construction
Let’s start with eyes where the soul of your critter lies.
Make BIG eyes that you can recognize from a distance.
Build your eyes so you can reuse or interchange them to create many critters.
Post link to ‘eyes’ build-it-block
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You can make hair from yarn, paper, feathers, or weeds,
Post link to ‘hair’ build-it-block
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Modular Construction
Make arms and hands.
Long pipe cleaners work well because you can bend them to help make your critter come alive, and the arms will shake in playful ways if your put your critter on a remote control chassis.
Post link to ‘hair’ build-it-block
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Tools and Materials
Turnip Head Gourd Diva
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Chayote Critter
Ginger Critter
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Dragon Gourd Sweet Potato Head