Fun With Fruit

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Materials

Book about fruits or vegetables Crayons or markers and paper

Magazines Scissors

Glue or paste Poster board

Instructions

1. Read your class a book about fruits or vegetables.

2. Ask the children to draw or cut out magazine pictures of favorite fruits or vegetables.

3. Paste these pictures on poster board to make a picture graph of the children's favorite fruits or vegetables. Label each food with its name.

4. Discuss the results of the graph, such as which fruit or vegetable was chosen by the most children. Tally the amounts next to the pictures.

5. Ask the children to bring in their favorite fruits or vegetables to make a salad to share with class.More to doMore science: Learn about which fruits and vegetables grow on trees and which grow in the ground. Learn about the stages of growing these foods.

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