Kindergarten Vegetable Activities
Young children often have the perception that vegetables come from the local grocery store, not a farm. Doing a unit on vegetables helps children understand how the vegetable gets from the garden to your table. A unit on vegetables also teaches children how to be healthy.
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Vegetable Soup
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Ask your pupils to list vegetables that they could put into a pot of vegetable soup. Read "Growing Vegetable Soup" by Lois Ehlert to your class. The illustrations in the book are bright and the book has many vegetables listed. After reading the book, have students bring in different vegetables cut up. Place the collection of vegetables into a slow cooker. The children will get to be a small part of making a large dish that the class can share. Make a paper sheet with vegetables that the children can color in. Have your pupils cut out the vegetables and use them to retell the story.
Growing Vegetable Seeds
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Young children often have the perception that vegetables come from the local grocery store. Finding out where vegetables come from is surprising to some students. Break the children up into groups and give each group a large bucket filled with potting soil. Distribute different seeds to each group. Have students plant the seeds and water daily. Watching the plants sprout is often quick, but it will likely take more than 60 days to produce a vegetable. Quick-growing plants, like radishes, work well for this unit.
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Potato Stamps
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Create artwork by making vegetable stamps. In front of the class, cut a potato in half. Carve a design in the half, such as a heart or stars. Let the children stamp the potato in paint and onto their paper to create artwork. You can also turn this into a math activity by having the children make patterns with their potato stamps.
Health Lessons
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Show your pupils the health pyramid, developed by the federal government. Talk to the children about how many vegetables they should be eating per day. Send home a chart for students to record how often they eat vegetables over the course of a week. Bring in a variety of vegetables and have children sort the vegetables based on shape, texture and colors. After sorting, wash the vegetables and allow the students to have samples to broaden their vegetable exposure. Tell students how vegetable have vitamins that help their bodies grow and fight germs.
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