Party Food... Edible Eyeballs
You will need:
* Packet of marshmallows
* Red writing icing
* Smarties
What to do:
1. Arrange the marshmallows on a plate and ice red blood vessels over them.
2. Affix a Smartie pupil to the centre of each eye. Here’s looking at you kid!
The eye is about as big as a ping-pong ball and sits in a little hollow area (the eye socket) in the skull. The front part is protected by the eyelid. The eyelid helps keep the eye clean and moist by opening and shutting several times a minute. This is called blinking, and it's both a voluntary and involuntary action, meaning you can blink whenever you want to, but it also happens without you even thinking about it.
The white part of the eyeball is called the sclera. The sclera is made of a tough material and has the important job of covering most of the eyeball. Think of the sclera as your eyeball's outer coat. Look very closely at the white of the eye, and you'll see lines that look like tiny pink threads. These are blood vessels, the tiny tubes that deliver blood, to the sclera.
The iris is the colorful part of the eye. The iris has muscles attached to it that change its shape. This allows the iris to control how much light goes through the pupil. The pupil is the black circle in the centre of the iris, and it lets light enter the eye.
Check out http://www.kidshealth.org/ for more.
