Happy Planting A Rainbow Fruit & Veggie Garden

This calendar week nosotros are featuring activities yous tin produce "In the garden" every bit nosotros motion into the 2nd calendar week of Virtual Book Club Summer Camp! If you're non yet subscribed to our weekly military camp emails, instruct here to sign up.

Today's post is sponsored past times Today I Ate a Rainbow.

In add-on to participating inwards our online virtual mass social club for kids, I am too co-hosting a real-life mass social club summertime military camp alongside my skilful friend Chrissie. We are using the Virtual Book Club Summer Camp themes in addition to coming together 1-2 times per calendar week for nearly an lx minutes in addition to a half. We've been having fun doing loads of garden themed activities that I can't hold off to part alongside you!

This calendar week I am excited to part a few of the activities nosotros did inspired past times Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert... including an adorable (and yummy) rainbow fruit in addition to veggie snack!

We started off military camp past times reading Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert in addition to talking nearly the dissimilar flowers that nosotros discovered inwards the book. The kids were actually engaged in addition to loved telling me nearly their favorite flowers.

After nosotros read our book, nosotros made our ain rainbow fruit in addition to veggie gardens.

Materials Needed: obviously yogurt or a yummy fruit dip (see recipe below for ingredients), cutting upward fruits in addition to vegetables, a white platter or plate, in addition to utensils.

Directions:

Since I wasn't totally prepared ahead of time, I started off this action past times cutting to a greater extent than or less fruits in addition to vegetables into little pieces acre the kids talked alongside me nearly their favorite snacks. I highly recommend yous pre-cut your fruits in addition to veggies.

Next nosotros gave each small-scale a plate alongside to a greater extent than or less yogurt on the bottom of their plate. The yogurt served every bit the base of operations for their rainbow garden.

Then nosotros started giving the kids celery in addition to saccharide snap peas first. This was a snack AND a listening/following directions activity, in addition to then I told the kids to hear closely to what I said! We focused on directional words- under, over, adjacent to, beside, on exceed of, etc.

First, I told them to pose their celery on the bottom of their plates... form of similar grass or bloom stalks. Next I told them to add together saccharide snap peas next to their celery.

After that I told them to pose the strawberries in addition to blackberries on exceed of their celery to brand them await similar flowers tops.

Then nosotros finished the action past times giving them to a greater extent than or less carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, in addition to whatever extra fruits to add together details to their rainbow bloom gardens. I loved seeing what they created using their listening ears in addition to a chip of their ain imaginations!

Once they were done creating, they got to "plant a rainbow' inwards their tummies every bit they ate their rainbow fruit & veggie garden.

I was impressed that my ain kids tried several novel veggies during this action that they don't unremarkably like. They kept telling me they didn't similar them... merely they yet used them inwards their garden creation in addition to later on they couldn't assist merely guide keep a taste. Some they loved (like saccharide snap peas), to a greater extent than or less they hated... merely at to the lowest degree they tried them!

If yous desire to endeavour a yummy fruit dip alongside your rainbow gardens... instead of yogurt, here's a sweetness fruit dip that nosotros like:

Fruit Dip

1 box vanilla instant pudding

1/2 the amount of milk that the box calls for

1/2 tin (or so) Cream of Coconut

8 oz tub cool whip

Mix pudding in addition to milk. Add cream of kokosnoot (when yous opened upward he tin brand certain yous stir it upward because it tends to separate and is actually thick in addition to waxy on the exceed in addition to liquidy on the bottom) You desire this mixture to gustatory modality pretty rigid because it volition survive diluted alongside the cool whip. Fold inwards the cool whip in addition to refrigerate.

Do your kids consume a rainbow every day? What are their favorite fruits or veggies?

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Come dorsum tomorrow to catch the other "in the garden" activities nosotros are sharing in addition to too caput over to The Educators' Spin On It to catch their Tiny Seed activities.

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You tin discovery other Lois Ehlert inspired weblog posts hither inwards our Lois Ehlert Virtual Book Club for Kids link up!

Disclosure: Thanks to Today I Ate a Rainbow for sponsoring today's post in addition to participating inwards VBC Summer Camp. Today I Ate a Rainbow is compensating me for this post, merely all opinions inwards the post are 100% mine.