Alexander loves to glue things. I can cut out shapes -- all sorts of different shapes and he can glue for hours. His first "project" was the abstract piece above. I really like it! Rebecca created an actual scene with various shapes... it conjures up an image that Eric Carle and Henri Matisse might have collaborated on.
I asked Rebecca and Alexander to create a "Fruit Bowl" for me. In Alexander's fruit bowl are: 2 bananas, a grapefruit, a lemon, an apple and a pear.
In Rebecca's Fruit Bowl are: 2 apples, some blueberries, a lime, a lemon, a banana and an orange.
The Fruit Bowls reminded me of Lois Ehlert's Eating the Alphabet
and so that is what we did... we sampled, bananas, strawberries and apples and lemons. We talked about texture and taste.
You could even bring this a step further by incorporating a little bit of cooking!
Click on the fruit below to get some fun cooking ideas!