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Fruit Counting Kabobs

Counting fruit while making healthy kabobs

Month 12 · Activity 17 ·   Cooking  

Instructions

  • You will need a skewer to assemble the kabob - one for each member of the family
  • Collect a variety of fruit to use - apples, pineapple chunks, grapes, bananas,  and large/small marshmallows
  • Ask child to count and place the food on the skewer: 1 pineapple chunk, 3 banana slices, 1 marshmallow, 4 grapes, 2 apple slices (to prevent apple slices from browning brush with lemon, orange or grapefruit juice, lemon-lime soda or soak in cold apple juice)
  • Count the number of total pieces of fruit on the skewer (11 pieces)
  • Repeat the pattern for each kabob assembled

Simplify

Place only 4 or 5 pieces of fruit on the skewer.

Extend

Chat about where each of the fruit is grown:

Pineapples - warm, tropical weather on a leafy ground perennial plant (you could try to grow your own from the top of a pineapple)

Apples - grow on trees and start from seeds or a seedling and need cold and warm weather

Grapes - grow on vines in a variety of climates with rocky and sandy soil

Bananas - grow on the world's largest perennial plant up to 25 feet in a humid, tropical climate and need alot of water.  

Materials

  • wooden skewers/chopsticks- enough for family members or classmates
  • various fruits cut into pieces
  • marshmallows- large or small 
  • juice (optional)
  • Language Skills
  • Math & Science Skills
  • Motor Skills
  • Problem Solving Skills