Example of Plan for Vegetables Theme

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Example of Plan for Vegetables Theme
Many activities with a food theme are developmentally appropriate for young children. Food themes are a rich source of hands-on learning opportunities.

Figure: A square segmented into four smaller squares. The top left square reads, "Food Preparation Activities: Mash potatoes or squashes; peel/scrape/shred carrots, potatoes, turnips, cabbage; Make pickles or relishes; baked potatoes, squashes; vegetable soup; pizza or pasta sauce; veggie tacos; veggies and different kinds of dips; salads tossed, marinated, molded, coleslaw; Zucchini/carrot pancakes, muffins; make vegetable juices." The top right square reads, "Growing Vegetables: Germinate seeds for fast growing vegetables like beans, peas, or spinach and transplant to garden; Plant different varieties of a vegetable such as pole beans, bush beans, yellow wax beans, lima beans; Root an avocado seed, potato, or carrot in water; Plant zucchini, cucumbers, or pumpkins in a mound; Plant a window garden of greens and herbs; Visit a farm, gardening center, grocery store, "farm-to-table" restaurant." The bottom right square reads, "Play with vegetables: Set up a vegetable stand or grocery store in dramatic play area; use cut vegetables such as potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, zucchini for printing; make potato heads; poems/songs; puzzles with vegetable or farm themes; juggling potatoes; games: e.g. Hot Potato, Farmer in the Dell, I Spy...a vegetable that is..." The bottom left square reads, "Characteristics of vegetables: Tasting party graph results into like/dislike or other attributes such as sweet, sour crunchy, soft; put celery stalks in colored water and observe capillary action; identify while blindfolded; leave vegetable such as a hollowed out pumpkin to decompose and chart observations over time; use magnifying glasses or microscope to view sectioned samples; sorting pictures or samples of vegetables by color, such as green, yellow, and red peppers; sort vegetables by shape/size."

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