Grocery Craft

Bring children grocery shopping as an introduction to grocery crafts.

Grocery crafts are informative and entertaining ways to teach young kids about the grocery store. Such knowledge is important for developing independent living skills and introducing children to the concept of grocery stores, grocery shopping and nutrition at an early age. For grocery crafts, select projects that are stimulating so that children stay engaged.

Grocery Picture Lists

Rather than making a grocery list with words, construct grocery shopping lists out of pictures. A grocery picture list contains all of the items that should be purchased at the supermarket, drawn by the participants of the craft project. Instead of writing the word "banana," an image of a banana is simply drawn onto a piece of construction paper. The next item on the grocery list is drawn beneath the banana, and so on. To add to the craft project, participants should study the grocery picture list to see whether or not they have all of the necessary food groups on the list, such as dairy, fruits, vegetables and proteins.

Grocery Collages

A grocery collage gives people the chance to put together artistic collages with a grocery food theme. Participants flip through magazines and cut out grocery related images or items that would be found at the grocery store. Such images in the magazines may include, but are not limited to, foods, beverages, shopping carts and shopping bags. After the images are cut out from the magazines, they are glued to a large piece of construction paper, poster board or canvas. A collage means that there doesn't need to be a specific order to the pasting of the images. Rather, participants of the craft project have creative freedom to paste images on top of one another, side by side or scattered all over the paper.

Shopping Bag Decorations

For a grocery craft, give people the chance to decorate their own canvas shopping bags or totes. Start with blank shopping bags and give kids fabric markers and paints to decorate the bags with. This craft allows people to personalize the bags to their liking, as well as teaches them the importance of reusing shopping bags, which is beneficial to the environment and the economy. Craft participants can also glue embellishments onto their bags, such as sewing buttons, fabric letters, fabric pom-poms and gemstones.

Grocery Comic Strips

A grocery comic strip is an effective way for kids to portray what happens at the grocery store through visual images. Craft participants are given pieces of paper with four to six quadrants marked on the paper. The first quadrant is where the first image is drawn. Kids are instructed to tell a story about the grocery store and what happens there, using the quadrants to draw the images. As such, the first quadrant may be a picture of a person pushing an empty shopping cart. The next quadrant may be of a person tossing an apple into the cart. By the fourth or sixth quadrant, the comic strip illustrates the shopper with a full shopping cart.

References

• Everything Preschool: Preschool Grocery Coloring Pages