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November 11, 2016 · 6 Comments

Bush Tucker Trial / Jungle Themed Day

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We decided to have our own bush tucker trials with tuna filled witchety grubs, meal worms, jungle ants, wallaby willies, fish eyes & kangaroo balls all washed down with a cockroach shakes & piranha shakes. We huddle around a yummy chocolate jungle campfire and embarked on some disgusting bug challenges. At the end we crowned our king of the jungle….

Here’s what we did..

We started the day with a jungle trial breakfast, cockroach smoothie (porridge with chocolate sprinkles) and fish eyeballs (melon balls with a raisin iris and jam juice)

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Then I set about creating our jungle table with all manner of delights..

I made the serving cloth by wrapping a bowl in tin foil and gluing a scrunched up ball of tin foil to the top. The vines were simply cut out leaves stuck to brown packaging tape.

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Our Jungle menu consisted of..

Wallaby willies…..A tin of hot dogs..

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Witchety grubs, chocolate filled with tuna.

I made these by laying some cling film over some shaped play dough and pouring in melted chocolate. I made two halves for each grub and once hardened i filled with tuna and used a little melted chocolate to stick together the two halves to make the drum.

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Mealworms… Melted chocolate rolled into worms.

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Kangaroo balls….A tin of meatballs..

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Cockroach smoothie…. Porridge and chocolate sprinkles.

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Piranha smoothie, a mix of tuna and milk. Disgusting.

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Jungle sticks…. Liquorice sticks from the health food shop.

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‘How long bug game’

the kids put the bugs into their mouths and the winner was the one who kept the bug in for the longest.

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We made feely boxes to hide our jungle stars.. Tissue paper, spaghetti and twig foliage…

Spaghetti filled feely box.

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Tissue paper filled feely box.

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Twig and leaf filled feely box.

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Then their star trials began…

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They did well!!

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Preparing to eat our jungle ants.. (Melted chocolate drops with chocolate strands for legs)..

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Tuna filled witchety grubs…..ewwww…don’t they look happy

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Even the smallest members of the family dug into some jungle treats..

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And we crowned him our jungle king…

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We finished off with a jungle camp fire (chocolate logs with brandy snap flames)

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  1. youmeandteddy says

    March 11, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    I loved this one 🙂 I just nominated your blog for a Liebster Award by the way http://youmeandteddy.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/ich-liebster-dich/

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    • familydaystriedandtested says

      March 11, 2014 at 10:52 pm

      Thankyou x

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  2. aviets says

    March 12, 2014 at 2:41 am

    Brilliant! Wish I still had little ones in the house so we could plan a birthday party around all this fun stuff! 🙂 -Amy at http://www.momgoeson.wordpress.com

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  3. Ruth says

    November 22, 2014 at 9:45 am

    Love it….

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  4. amanda says

    January 17, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    This is brilliant thank you for sharing !!

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  5. Sarah says

    November 18, 2022 at 5:29 pm

    Wow! Thank you. I’m going to do this a Christmas for my son-in-laws 😂

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