Fruit Counting Kabobs

Counting fruit while making healthy kabobs

Month 12 · Activity 17 · Cooking

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

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

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.