Ruth, and her son, had a “fruit and vegetable day”. Let’s take a closer look…
What did you do?
My son is five and full of energy with a short attention span. I tend to choose a daily theme and dot activities throughout the day, but also try to set up a carousel with a few tasks on the kitchen table.
For fruit and vegetable day, I started by showing him the pictures of Giuseppe Archimboldo and asking him to identify the different items used to make up the images.
I also read him some chapters from James and the Giant Peach.
For the carousel, I set up:
- a parsnip with a triangle cut into it
- a piece of cardboard, paints, brushes and water for paint-printing
- a banana and a marker pen so he could write his name
- a piece of cardboard and some fruit and vegetables so he could make his own Giuseppe Archimboldo ‘fruit face’
- a mini garden kit with compost and seeds (cress, lettuce, radish and beetroot) for him to plant out.
Finally, I melted chocolate in a bowl and he dipped an apple with a lolly stick into the chocolate and rolled it in some extra treats (hundreds and thousands etc).
It was all very simple, but good fun.
