[How to make a radish mushroom and Mario mushroom]
- radish
- *seaweed for Mario mushroom
– small fruit knife

1. Put a knife in the middle of a radish, and make a small incision.

2-a. Hold the radish, and spin the radish VERY SLOWLY, and cut all the way around the radish.

OR

2-b. Push the knife forward VERY LIGHTLY, and cut all around the radish. *Don’t push the knife through!

The radish should look like this after cutting all around it.

3. Make four incisions on the bottom side of mushroom like in the pictures. *Don’t cut past the half line!

4. Put the knife on the half line, and remove the radish pieces.

5. Trim the stem part, and cut off the bottom. (You can just stop here if you want)

6. Put a knife on the surface of the radish, and peel the skin. *It’s kind of like peeling an apple, but you don’t rotate the radish, and just peel the skin off.

7. You can make the stem part wider, put a small piece of seaweed and make a Mario Mushroom too.

You can just stop at Step 5 if you want. Please be extremely careful with this. I don’t want anyone getting hurt!

If you accidentally snap off the stem, don’t worry! You can stick the stem on with a toothpick.

This is cool. But, What do you do after your done?

Eat it.

After all that hard work?

Makes it all the more satisfying. Like gently cracking open a peanut M&M, separating the peanut and chocolate, and then eating them separately. Tastes so much better (I know, I'm weird).

hm, i never have to buy christmas presents again

That's pretty cool! I love these little crafts people come up with.

I've also made a Poison mushroom out of rocks for my lapidary class several years ago.

The back was purple amethyst quartz, the eyes were obsidian, the spots were marble, and the stem was some sandstone, I forget. I need to take a picture of it and upload it.

Please do, that sounds awesome!

Hmmmmmm... I could make a salad with those radishes in it for my next date. I highly doubt my date will be as impressed with it as I am.

This is cute!