Surprise carrots to fill
An orange paper cone filled with little chocolates and tied off with a green tuft: for a carrot hunt instead of an egg hunt.
Age : age 5+; the grown-up helps roll the cone
Materials
- Fairly thick orange paper (or thin card) : A 20 cm square per carrot.
- Green tissue paper or crêpe paper : A 10 × 25 cm strip per carrot.
- A 20 cm plate or bowl : To draw the quarter circle.
- Glue, sticky tape, scissors
- A brown or dark orange felt-tip : For the little lines on the carrot.
- A bit of green string or raffia
- Little chocolates or sweets : For filling.
Steps
The cone
- Place the plate on one corner of the orange square and draw a quarter circle: you get a slice of pie.
- Cut it out.
- Draw a few little curved lines, like the ridges on a real carrot.
- Roll the slice into a nice pointy cone, lines on the outside, and close it with glue and a piece of tape on the inside.
Fill and close
- Glue the strip of green paper all the way round the opening, inside the cone: it sticks up at the top like a bag.
- Fill the cone with chocolates.
- Gather the green paper together above them and tie it with the string.
- Snip the top of the green paper into a fringe: that's the carrot's leafy top.
- Hide the carrots in the garden or around the house for the hunt.
No sweets? Slip a little note, a riddle or a challenge into each carrot, and for a big game, number the carrots so the messages make a sentence to put back together.
If it goes wrong
- The cone keeps opening : Add a piece of tape on the inside as well as the glue.
- The chocolates fall out of the tip : Pinch the tip and tape it, or pop a ball of paper in it.
- The green paper tears : Double it up, or use crêpe paper.
Safety
- No small hard sweets for under-3s.
- Watch out for allergies if friends join the hunt.