Three groups of kids from Memorial Nottingham and Collinwood Branch Libraries and the Grovewood salvation Army Summer Camp, all from Cleveland's North Collinwood neighborhoods took the workshops were inspired to create Veggie Superheroes from their favorite vegetables & Supervillains from their most reviled ones. They ate fun and healthy snacks and added favorite fruits as their characters' sidekicks, and some chose to write story lines for puppets and comic books.

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These characters are not only positive reinforcement associating fresh veggies with fun, they are the basis of the characters I'll be using to design a large scale board game that is being created where the kids will become the actual game pieces and hijinx happens as they navigate to find healthy foods while having fun.

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Each child who participated in the program were given gift tote bags from Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, which they got to decorate, filled with veggie or fruit seed packets, decorated flower pots and gift certificates to Coit Road Farmer's Market, a nearby market that's been around for 80 years - the longest running in Ohio.