There are plenty of ways you can teach your kids about fruits and vegetables and eating habits.
Examples are:
1. You can teach using flash cards
2. Show the real vegetables and fruits to them in a bowl and say its name loud.
3. Display a chart in their play area. By pointing out, teach them and it will help them to learn effectively when they see it often.
4. Make a colourful food and give them in a plate for self feeding
5. You can also grow your own vegetables right at home. Plant an indoor or outdoor garden to help you kids learns how to plant, care for and grow different types of vegetables.
My kid loves to play with real vegetables and fruits so much. We did cutting, counting, colour sorting, fruits and vegetables classification. At One point, I have no idea what to do more than this with vegetables and fruits. Easily formed the idea of doing some theme based activities using vegetables and fruits but it was really challenging to execute it. I would like to share few activities which I have done at home with my little one and I believe this post may help someone. This enhances kid’s confident using real knife and peeler, arranging things in a pattern, concept formation, execution, Vocabulary and learning new words.
1.Parts of a Tree:
To do this, we used mint leaves, potato skin, Kiwi fruit skin, Carrot skin, and beetroot.
2. Little doll using carrots, beetroot, peas and coriander leaves:
3. Fruits and Vegetables cutting and arrangement:
4.Flower using strawberry, Kiwi and Coriander leaves:
5.Mode of transport: Water
The below one we have done using the expired date bread. This activity also helps us to name out the different shapes used. We have used beetroot and beetroot leaves and colour sticks for the door and the window.
6. Colours with Vegetables:
7.Types of weather with Vegetables:
8.Vehicles using potato skin, spinach and carrots:
9.Waterfalls using sticks, potato skin, coriander leaves and Play dough:
10.Finger Family with carrots, tinda and cauliflower:
11.Traffic sign using capsicum, tomato, carrots, cabbage, eggplant and chow chow skin:
Always I used to do these activities with him side by side while cooking. Mostly will try to use the skin of the vegetables when doing activities. After this activity I will wash all the vegetables and reuse. Off course small amount of waste will be there but it is very minimal. We tried to do good habits using vegetables and fruits. The first activity was the three golden words" Please. Sorry and Thank you" The vegetables and fruits we used are grapes, tinda, green chilies, radish, lemon, avocado, lady's finger, and potato.
This activity we did together to emphasize the importance of brushing teeth to him. This also helps to improve the vocabulary, and learning new words both in English as well as in Tamil.
12.Flowers using pineapple crown leaves radish, tinda, grapes, carrot and its skin.
Hope this helps. Happy Parenting :)
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