- coloring supplies
- Eating the Alphabet (book)
- glue
- magazine fruit pictures
- marker
- paper plates
- scissors
- fruit
- plant
- vegetable
MA Standards:
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
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/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Fruit and Vegetable Faces
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Show children the title page of Eating the Alphabet and talk about the vegetables and fruits that are used to make the face. Tell children they will make a fruit and vegetable face.
- Have children look at the Food wall display and the magazine pictures. Then discuss what fruits and vegetables could be a nose, a mouth, eyes, or hair.
- Invite children to use the magazine pictures as parts of the face and glue them onto the paper plate. Remind children to include eyes, nose, hair, and mouth.
- Have children name the parts of the fruits and vegetables that they are using to create the faces. Take a photo of each creation and add them to the Food wall display.
Adaptation: If very young children want to make a fruit or vegetable face, give help as needed in choosing foods and in execution.