- colored pencils
- construction paper
- crayons
- fruits and/or vegetables
- fruit
- observe
- vegetable
MA Standards:
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Persistence and Attentiveness: Maintains interest in a project or activity until completed.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Inquiry Skills 4: Record observations and share ideas through simple forms of representation such as drawings.
Fruit and Vegetable Still Life
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Creative Expression, Vocabulary, Writing
Display a few pieces of fruit or vegetables on a table. Tell children that artists often look at an object very carefully before drawing it. They place it right in front of them, look at it and draw, look at it again, and draw some more. Ask each child to select one fruit or vegetable to draw.
Encourage children to observe very carefully the shape and color of their fruit or vegetable before they begin to draw. They can turn the fruit or vegetable around to look at all sides. Invite them to talk about and describe their drawings, using color and shape words. Help children label and write their names on their drawings. Display the drawings in the pretend grocery store (see Play and Pretend Center).
Take It Further: You may want to introduce the idea that people create drawings for different reasons. Talk about how a scientist will draw to share observations, an architect may draw a building to present ideas, and an artist may draw to evoke feelings or emotions.