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How to make a tin of tiger food.
Warning: This contains a story about other people's kids, you may want to run away at this point and/or get your sick bag out! :)
Instead of the usual imaginary friend most two-year-olds have, my daughter has three imaginary tigers. No idea why. Her favourite book is The Tiger who came to tea in which a little girl buys a big tin of tiger food in a shop. You can see where this is going...........right?
"Daddy, can we go to shop and get tiger food for my tigers too? Please?"
Sounds like an opportunity to have a bit of fun to me!
Kit
- Empty tin of beans
- Plastic "keep it fresh" lid for tins of beans/etc.
- sugru
- Your imagination
Step 1
Most cans have a razor-sharp rim on the inside, even the ring-pull ones like this one. This would be a disaster for small hands reaching in to get out the tiger food!
Step 2
Coat the sharp rim with sugru to make it kid safe. We used two packets to make it nice and thick, but you might get away with one.
Step 3
Fire up Photoshop and design a label for the can - let your imagination run riot! We put multicoloured tigers, a bar code, a brand name and an ingredients list on ours because we got a bit giddy.
Print off the label and stick it to the can (remember to make the label longer than the circumference of the can so there's overlap). I also recommend covering the label with the sticky plastic you use for covering schoolbooks, as this label didn't last long and we had to make a replacement.
Cap it off with one of those plastic lids for keeping tinned food fresh.
Step 4
Finally, plant it on the pet food isle in a Supermarket and let your kid find it. I recommend videoing it, because it's entertaining (and I'm a saddo).
Oh, and if you want extra chuckles I recommend going up to the checkout girl that looks hungover, like we did. Took the poor girl a while to work out why it wasn't scanning...
