Monday, February 4, 2013

Wooly Willy and Fred Face...


Ever heard of Wooly Willy?



 This was a toy at Grandma and Grandpa’s place that I grew up with.  You used a magnetic wand to move around metal flecks to decorate Willy’s face with eyebrows, facial hair, ect.  Hours of fun!


Flash forward several decades and you now have Fred Face.  A plate where your creativity can go wild.  Okay, probably not wild, but a fun way to present food to your kids.  Lil’Miss can be a little on the difficult side when it comes to eating dinner with the family.  She loves to help me cook and prepare the food and sometimes will snack on what ever we are preparing, but when it comes to sitting down with the family and eating what I have prepared, she is not so enthusiastic, and frankly it has been a problem.


She has gone to bed several nights with out eating dinner and it has been a frustration for myself and the hubs.  I came across these plates and decided it was worth a try.  So my kids got “Fred Face” plates for Christmas.  Since one of them doesn't look like a Fred I have appropriately named her Frieda or Freida (how ever you spell that?).

Frieda bundled up with apple earmuffs, a spotted wooly cap and applesauce turtleneck!

Fred with a sweet potato goatee

Frieda with an egg fro and earrings!

Fred and Frieda haven’t taken away our dinner eating woes, but there has been a great improvement in dinner time behavior and Lil’Miss is eating with us more frequently.


Or even better yet, they still sell Wooly Willy... who knew???




Happy Parenting!!
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