NO parent likes children to play with their food. But they might just have made an exception this week when youngsters at Stile Common Junior School were encouraged not just to play with food but to make music out of it.
The children at the Newsome school worked with Richard Sabey and students from Huddersfield University on a project which gave them a whole new take on the idea of having five portions of vegetables a day.
An entire orchestra of musical instruments was made out of common or garden veg. The young instrument-makers and musicians created recorders from carrots, an aubergine clapper, pumpkin drums, parsnip gourd-type instrument and cabbage speakers.
They also had lots of fun and at the end of the workshop played a piece on their totally green instruments, which was recorded for the school.
The vegetables were given by Sainsburys and one of their staff looked on as at least one group of youngsters learned never to say again that vegetables are boring.
l If you really want to see the experts at work Bates Mill is the place to be tomorrow for a performance by the 11-piece Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.
