In a little over a week we will be celebrating Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is time to enjoy family, friends and food. This week at preschool we will be exploring the world of food. At the art table we are making satsuma turkeys with fruity o’s for feathers. The Pre-3 and 3s classes will be making vegetable prints. There will be measuring cups and kitchen tools in the sensory table, as well as, kitchen tools to use with the play dough. There will be food puzzles at table toys, and of course, lots of opportunities for food conversation in the dramatics area.
Fun Food Activities for Home:
(Due to allergies we will have limited food activities at school, but these are two fun ones to do with your child at home.)
Toast
Ingredients and items needed: wheat bread, milk, food coloring, pastry brush, toaster, plastic knives
Have your child brush the toast with milk that has been colored with a small amount of food coloring (they can paint shapes, faces, etc.). Now, toast the bread!
OR: Make your toast and then have your child top it with apple butter, applesauce, yogurt, sliced bananas or other fruit you may choose!
Smoothies
In a blender add yogurt of choice, ice cubes, milk or juice, any kind of fruit you like (veggies too). Have your child cut up the bananas with a plastic knife, wash the blueberries, pull the grapes off the stem, etc.
Let them measure, pour and push the buttons on the blender.
Blend and enjoy!
Songs:
I Can Eat a Rainbow
RED as an apple,
ORANGE as a carrot,
YELLOW as a banana,
GREEN as grapes,
BLUE as blueberry,
PURPLE as a plum,
One Potato, Two Potato
One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four
Five potatoes, six potatoes, seven potatoes more!
Patty Cake
Patty cake patty cake,
Bakers man, bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it, pat it, mark it with a B
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
Jelly Song
(Sung To : The farmer in the dell)
Jelly in a Bowl, Jelly in Bowl
Wibble Wobble Wibble Wobble
Jelly in a bowl.
I Like Apples and Bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like ate, ate, ate aepples and baenaenaes
I like to eat, eat, eat eeples and beenenes
I like to ite, ite, ite ipples and binini
I like to ote, ote, ote opeles and bononos
I like to ute, ute, ute upples and bununus
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
Painted Toast