Apples, broccoli, carrots, dates, eggplants, and figs! Join us as we learn about fruits and vegetables this week.
#READ: Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
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Apple to Zucchini, come take a look. Start eating your way through this alphabet book. Each turn of the page reveals a mouth-watering arrangement of foods: Indian corn, jalapeno, jicama, kumquat, kiwifruit and kohlrabi.
Increase pre-literacy skills as you read together:
- Ask your little ones to identify the letter the fruits and veggies start with.
- Point out and run your finger under the names of foods your little reader knows and enjoys.
- Have your little one trace their finger over the large letters on each page while saying the letter's name.
#SING: Rainbow Fruit
Take an apple, put it in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest red you ever did see
Take an orange, put it in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest orange you ever did see
Take a banana, put it in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest yellow you ever did see
Take a pear, put it in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest green you ever did see
Take some blueberries, put them in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest blue you ever did see
Take a plum, put it in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest indigo you ever did see
Take some grapes, put them in the pot
Stir it stir it stir it a lot
Take it out, what will it be
The prettiest violet you ever did see
#EXPLORE: Watermelon Smoothies
Ingredients:
- 2 cups chopped watermelon
- 1 cup apple juice
- 5 frozen strawberries
- 3 ice cubes
Instructions:
- Make a list of ingredients you need for the smoothie with your little one.
- Allow your little one to add watermelon, strawberries, apple juice, and ice into blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- If smoothie is too thick or not cold enough, add more ice cubes and blend again.
- Let your little one help pour smoothie into a glass and enjoy together!
Optional: cut more watermelon into cubes to look like ice cubes and add a few to each glass
To find more recipes like this one, check out The Forest Feast for Kids.
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