Make a fruit salad. Each child gets a PCS page with all the fruits we
used. They color in each fruit on their paper as we cut up the fruits one
at a time.--submitted by Wendy Gill
Make a caterpillar out of 5 styrofoam cups. Put a different fruit in
each one. Allow the children to point to pictures or name the fruit that
they want to try and serve it to them from one of the cups.--submitted
by Susan Emery
Don't forget to make eyes and antennae on the first
cup!
Make 1 large apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges and
1 green leaf out of construction paper, laminate each one and cut a whole
in the center of each. Make a pom pom caterpillar on a tongue depressor.
Attach each of the fruits to a clothes line and as you read the story, have
students take a turn to let the caterpillar eat the fruits. Students will
be using their hands together (OT) to put the caterpillar through the hole
of the fruit and take it out with their other hand on the other side of
the fruit.
Tell the story using actual fruits that you hold up. When it is time
for the caterpillar to make it's cocoon (actually it's a chrysallis), put
your pom pom caterpillar in a bag, spin the bag a few times and when you
open it instead of pulling out the caterpillar, pull out the butterfly you
have previously hidden in the bag. You might also want to make 2 caterpillars,
one smaller than the other (Big vs. Small concept).
Wrap kids (caterpillars) up in a blanket (cocoon) and roll them. When
they come out, instruct them to fly like butterflies.
Use scarves during a movement activity to dance like butterflies.
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