Illuminated Orange

Oh! The fun adventures we have . . .

 

Last night one of the girls had an itch to do something creative.

It was one of those nights I was NOT going to be OK with a big mess!

The creative itch was satisfied with a simple fun project that really took no time at all . . . and very few ingredients.

It was especially fun when we turned the lights out!!!  You could see all the tiny pin dots on the orange.  A miracle really, when you think of the complexity of a simple orange.

Try this with your kiddos!  It’s fun.

This was not our idea, there are several videos on YouTube you can watch if you need a step by step visual.

Here’s what you need:

• an orange
• a knife
• olive oil
• match, or lighter
• cutting board

Here’s what we did:

1. Make a slice all the way around the orange, just through the skin not into the flesh of the orange
2. With your fingers, gently work the skin off the orange.  Try not to break the stem inside the orange
3. Once the orange is out of the peel, and you have two halves of orange peel, pour about a tablespoon of olive oil into the orange peel half that has the stem.  Set this aside.
4. Now, on the other half of the orange peel, cut a shape, large enough for the heat and smoke to escape.  If you do not make it large enough, the edges will burn.
5. Light the “wick” olive oil soaked orange stem with your match or lighter and put the “lid” on.

You can see here, we should have cut our opening a wee bit more.

Turn the lights out and enjoy!  It even smells nice.