Place the different vegetables inside a bag. Show children the recipe for a vegetable soup. Read the book: Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books). Together, say per example, 'The apple is red and Milo's shirt is red.' Invite children to look around the room to find some other items that are red. Then, have each child show her/his card to the group and name the fruit or vegetable and its color. Let children choose a vegetable or fruit card and color it.

Make sure that children wash their hands before they eat.Īsk the questions: What does the vegetable taste like? (sweet, sour, salty) What does it feel like in your mouth? (juicy, crisp, hard) Other questions to ask: Do you know an animal that eats (name the fruit or vegetable)? Where do you get the (name the fruit or vegetable) you eat at your house? Does anyone at your house cook (name the fruit or vegetable)? What is your favorite fruit? What is your favorite vegetable?Ĭut up the fruits and vegetables that you have and let children taste them. Help children answer these questions about their fruits and vegetables, one at a time: What does it look like? (like a tree, a ball, a leaf) Is this fruit/vegetable big or little? How does it feel? (smooth, rough, hard, soft, bumpy, cold, warm, crinkly) What color is it? (Carrots-bend down and pull carrots, etc.). a yummy orange.' (Have children rub their bellies.) 'An orange grows high up in a tree.' (Have children reach up to pretend to pick an orange from a tree.) Repeat with different actions for the other fruits and vegetables in the bags.

Think of a fruit or vegetable and say,' It's an orange. Fruits and Vegetables (Movement and Descriptive Language) Encourage them first to guess what it is, and then take it from the bag to reveal what it is. Have children take turns reaching into their bag without looking inside and describe how the fruit or veg etable feels (soft, hard, rough, smooth, round, etc.). Place one or two different fruits or vegetables into a small brown lunch bag. Free Fruits and Vegetables Circle Time and Large Group Activities Surprise Bag (Oral Language) Later, have them wash and dry the fruits and vegetables. Encourage children to create all kind of fruits and vegetables. Set out a supply of different colored play dough.

Growing vegetable soup