What's in My Porridge?
Yuck! What's the grossest meal you can imagine? Follow in the tradition of world explorers who ate wormy porridge, or make your own disgusting feast!
1. Until canned food, refrigerators, freezers, and other ways to preserve foods were invented, people ate lots of things you would never dream of touching today. Often, foods such as cereals and flour got wormy. Other things, such as biscuits, got hard and moldy. Christopher Columbus's sailors waited until dark to eat so they wouldn't see the worms in their porridge. What gross foods can you can think of?
2. Mold Crayola® Model Magic® into a bowl or plate on which to serve your delicacies.
3. Sculpt the most disgusting, gross, unappetizing food you can imagine with Model Magic. Add things like worms, bugs, and foods you would never mix together. Dry 24 hours.
4. Cover your art area with newspaper. Paint your gross meal and serving dish with Crayola Washable Kid's Paint and Paint Brushes. Mix colors to get disgusting, unappealing hues. Dry.
5. Gross out your friends on Halloween, April Fools' Day and Poisson d'Avril, or any time!
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.
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