Cold Fruit Soup

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• seed
• rind
• stem
• flesh
• melon
• fruit
• puree
• chill

MATH

• Fruit Symmetry
• Find pictures of fruit in a magazine
• Cut the pictures of the various fruits in half
• Lay out pictures of the ˝ cut fruit
• Let the children identify the fruit by its half
• Children must match the other half to create the complete picture
  
  ** To extend this activity into Language Arts, see Language Arts below

• Weighing Fruit
• Children predict and experiment which is heavier:
• 5 grapes or 1 kiwi?
• How many apples will equal 1 cantaloupe, etc.

• Favorite Fruit Graphing
• Poll and graph the children’s favorite fruit
• Compare more, less or equal

• Fruit Sorting
• Have the children sort fruit by:
• Shape
• Color
• Seeds on inside vs outside
• Texture
• Size, etc.

SCIENCE

• Compare seeds and pits
• Some are edible and some are not:
• EDIBLE: strawberry, banana
• INEDIBLE: mango

LANGUAGE ARTS

** continued Fruit Symmetry from MATH above:
• Mixed-Up Fruit Stories
• Children combine two halves of different fruit to create their own new fruit
• Let them:
• Name it
• Describe where it grows
• What its flavor is, etc.

• Fruit Phonic Bingo
• Provide children with a board of fruit pictures (3 rows of 3)
• Create letter cards for the beginning sound of the fruit on the card
• Example:If the board contains pictures of a banana, pear, grape, blueberry, apple, etc.; your letter cards will begin with B, P, G, B, A, etc.
• As you call out the letter children place a marker (they can use a small fruit or clean fruit pit)
• Three in a row is bingo
• Variations:
• Top row bingo
• Bottom row bingo
• Diagonal bingo
• Full card bingo

• Cold soup is the opposite of hot soup
• Give children a word and let them state the opposite of that word

• Have the child state the difference between fruit and non-fruit items by identifying which doesn't belong.
• "apple", "pear", "truck", "grape", "carrot"
• Which items are not fruit?
• Which items are fruit?

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Discuss the areas where each fruit used in this recipe is grown

ART

• Fruit Bowl Collage
• Cut out fruit pictures from magazines (or cut from colored construction paper)
• Collage paper fruit into a styrofoam bowl

• Fruity Scented Art
• Children can paint fruit shaped paper with appropriate scented watercolor paint
• Add Kool-Aid to some water and have the children water color with scented paint
• Variation: Provide them with a bowl of fruit and let them paint a scented still