The Little Mouse The Red Ripe Strawberry And The Big Hungry Bear Printables' title='The Little Mouse The Red Ripe Strawberry And The Big Hungry Bear Printables' />A Preschool Nutrition Theme that includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool ClassroomFruits and Vegetables Theme for Preschool. This Fruits and Vegetables Theme page was developed based on YOUR requests There are so many activities and so little time This page contains affiliate links of products I think you might like Taste testing, comparing foods by sight and feel, and math games are just a fewYoull find many more ideas on this page. I hope you enjoy the activities and the many ways you can introduce fruits and vegetables to your preschoolers. This is a great theme for a week or to incorporate information about fruits and vegetables throughout the year Let the Theme Planning BeginFun childrens learning activities, including printable templates, for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school kids. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Recent HOMESCHOOL Goodness The BIG List of Black Friday Weekend Homeschool Deals Freebies 25 Off Homeschool Morning Time Plans More Minecraft Coding Course. Download read and do activities that help early childhood and preschool readers to develop a love for reading. But do tailor your answer to your audience. My Lifehacker colleagues choose the title blogger or journalist depending on how much theyre ready to get. Want MORE Free Teaching Resources Join thousands of other subscribers to get handson activities and printables delivered right to your inbox Excellent list I would add Its An Orange Aardvark and The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf and Grandma. Definitely favourites at our house. You can either scroll down through this page to see all of the preschool activities for your theme. Or you can click the link below to go to specific preschool activity types you are looking for. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Art. Produce Printing. Materials Needed Choose a large variety of produce that you can cut in half to provide different stamp shapes for the children to use with paint Some that we have used are apples, star fruit, potatoes that we cut shapes into. For best results, only provide a very shallow amount of paint in the tray so that the paint does not go on the produce too thickly. Corn on the Cob Painting. Roll corn cobs in a tray of shallow paint and then roll onto paper Very fun Produce Collages. Materials Needed Provide advertisement flyers from local supermarkets, glue sticks, scissors and construction paper. The children cut out and glue their favorites on the construction paper. Return to Top. Fruit and Vegetables Theme Block Center Idea. Farming. Provide farm type trucks, toy farm, plastic grass and plastic produce for the children to use in the block area. Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Circle Time Ideas. Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your theme Fruit or VegetableMaterials Needed Chart paper, tape and marker. Hang a chart on the wall at Circle Time. Make 2 columns on the paper and label one Fruit and one Vegetable. Ask the children to name some of each and list them on the proper side. Another way to do this is to bring some real produce and ask the children to name what each is and then ask them to determine which it is. Flannel Board Story Time. Read the story, Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert. In advance, draw or cut out a picture of each item from the story, laminate and place velcro on the back. Hand out the pieces, one to each child. As you read each part, the child places their piece on the flannel board or on a flannel soup pot on the flannel board Return to Top. Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Theme Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversationAsk many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks Recipes. There are so many recipes and ideas to use produce with. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures Torrent Pirate Bay. Go with what you enjoy and the children enjoy Make a banana boat the children slice bananas in half and then lengthwise and add apple pieces for a mast. Make fruit salad. Make a veggie tray. Provide a variety of fruits andor a variety of vegetables and let them create a design with them before eating snack One year we asked each child to bring in a pre cooked vegetable. We placed them all in a crockpot with vegetable broth and heated it during the morning for a wonderful Friendship Soup to share at snack time For more ideas, check out my Healthy Snacks page which has 1. Return to Top. Like What You SeeJoin my FREE Preschool Teacher Club today and receive A full theme each month that includes Calendar pieces an activity mat or game, a play dough recipe and more  Fruits and Vegetables Theme Idea to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area. Farm Stand. Turn your dramatic play area into a standProvide shopping baskets, plastic fruits and vegetables, a cash register and play money, grocery bags, paper, pencils for shopping lists, etc. Or, add REAL fruits and veggies to your farm stand Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Idea for Your Easel Carrot Top Painting. Weve used carrots that have the fern on the tops. Hold from the carrot and use the ferns to paint with Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Large Group Games To Help the Children Build Their Muscles While They Have Fun Together Acting Out the Growing Cycles. Encourage the children to act out the growing cycles of different types of produce. Or, from a seed, to a sprout, to a tree to small apples growing to us jumping up to pick applesYou get the idea Fruit, Fruit, Veggie Play this like Duck, Duck GooseYou could get more specific and say orange, orange, cucumber Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Ideas for Your Library. Book Suggestions for the Library. The Carrot Seed 6. Anniversary Edition by Ruth Krauss. Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert. Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat. Growing Vegetable Soup Voyager Books by Lois Ehlert. The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear Childs Play Library by Audrey Wood one of my all time favorite booksThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Math Activities. To Help Your Preschoolers Develop Their Math Skills and the Small Muscles in Their Hands Seed andor Produce Counting. Materials Produce or seeds to count, muffin tins with numbers 1 1. The children can count out and sort the correct number of seeds from fruit into the tins or provide small veggies such as grape or cherry tomatoes or cut up cucumbers to sort Produce Sorting. Provide real or play produce. Include several of each different color banana, lemon, star fruit potato, kiwi, etc. Also provide many small bins or colored bowls to match the colors of produce you have. The children sort by color. They may also decide to sort by shape, by type of produce, etc. Hi Ho Cherry O. I love any excuse of a theme to play this game Click here for more details Back to Basics. Manipulatives dont always have to be made new each week. Be sure to include the basics of lacing, puzzles and other fine motor activities. If you have lacing cards or puzzles that are theme related, thats great If not, thats great, too Potato Heads. Our students LOVED having these available. Have MANY available as more than one child will want to use theseHere is a Potato Head Resource I created to add some math fun to your Potato Head Activities Click Here or the picture to the left to read more Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Music and Movement Activities. To Get Your Preschoolers Movin and Groovin Going To The Market. Greg and Steve have a great CD with this song on it Provide play fruits and vegetables and a produce basket. Have the children place the produce in the basket as it is mentioned in the song Return to Top. Fruits and Vegetables Theme Activities for Your Sand and Water Table. What Do I Feel Encourage the children to feel into a bag or box and guess which piece of produce you have placed in it You can show them all first and help them to name them and then see if they can remember based on how they feel. What Do I Smell After doing the above activity, cut each item in half, place in a ziploc baggie and then place in a brown paper lunch bag.