Monkey loves coconut! Shredded, yummy coconut! We found this out through her trying to eat the coconut off of one of her winter art projects she made at school. They brought in old coconut for the project and fresh, for the kids to taste. Monkey was apparently grabbing it by the handfuls! So, when we went to the grocery store, we decided we would buy a coconut and let the kids learn how to open one, see what it looks like inside, hear all the coconut juice swishing around and then finally taste some fresh coconut. Now, mind you, The Hubster is NOT a big fan of the stuff, at all! Sweet Pea follows in his footsteps, mostly. Me? LOVE IT!!
I looked up the best way to open it and since the kids were so eager, we skipped the "baking" step in the instructions. For the future? I won't skip that step! It would have made it all easier to get the coconut flesh out. Either way though, the kids had so much fun smashing it with a hammer. But, none of us really wanted to eat it in the end. Even after trying to toast some a day or two later, just didn't work out. I wish I had thought of taking a picture of it all broken open, but next time! We'll try it again!
So excited to start smashing away!!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!! They had so much fun hammering at the coconut! It was so hard that in the end, The Hubster broke it open, but we know the kids had fun regardless!
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