This week at Nursery, we had a very important job to do! We were asked to create a fruit salad for the very hungry caterpillar! This provided us with lots of starting questions: Which fruits do we enjoy eating? What might the hungry caterpillar like? Which fruits should we include in our fruit salad? We are all really enjoying sharing The Very Hungry Caterpillar story, so to be given such an important task gave us great excitement!
Creating a Fruit Salad Recipe
We decided to begin our journey by creating an ingredients list for a fruit salad recipe. We used our mark-making skills to draw the different types of fruit that we wanted to include in our fruit salad for the hungry caterpillar.
Our younger Nursery friends enjoyed using chunky marker pens and long lengths of paper to create a collaborative fruit salad recipe. The children were encouraged to mark-make on a large scale to fill the paper and lie on their tummies when mark-making. This helps us to develop our core strength, which is a very important part of our physical development. We all worked together to create lines, circles and shapes, carefully considering the colours we might need for the different fruits. We included oranges, blueberries, apples and strawberries within our ingredients list.
Our older Nursery children used A4 paper and pencils to create their recipes. We practised sitting at the table on chairs, resting our elbows and keeping our feet flat on the floor. We started to think about the way in which we hold our mark-making tools and tried very hard to control them steadily. We all had a go at copying the letters in our name with adult modelling. When creating our ingredients list, we had a go at identifying the initial sound in each fruit. We tried copying the corresponding letter with adult support. Our adult then acted as a scribe to continue modelling the writing process. There were some fantastic ideas for fruits that the hungry caterpillar might enjoy, including peaches, pineapple and bananas!
We showed great pride in our beautiful mark-making, and rightly so! Our recipes were ready to help us make our fruit salad for the hungry caterpillar!
Making Our Fruit Salad!
On Wednesday, we were very busy working together to make our fruit salad! We remembered to wash our hands and roll up our sleeves when it was our turn. We used our child-safe knives safely and with control to chop our fruit into pieces. We then put the fruit into our large bowl and used a large spoon to give it a mix! In our fruit salad, we included pineapple, strawberry, peaches, banana and melon.
At snack time, we decided to taste-test our fruit salad for the hungry caterpillar! We enjoyed sitting together in our colour key groups to try the fruit. Our hard work had paid off and we were all in agreement that it was delicious – lots of smiles and a big thumbs up! We saved some of the fruit salad to give to our very hungry caterpillar, who also found it delicious!
We rose to our challenge this week with great success! We thought about, planned out and created our own delicious fruit salad. We all enjoyed sharing some of our fruit salad for a special snack too! You could make a fruit salad at home to share with your family this weekend. We would love to see some photographs of making food at home on Tapestry!