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Arts and Crafts

Favorite-Food Drawings

Skills: Creativity, Fine-Motor Skills, Drawing Activity:

Give each child a paper piąte and crayons. Ask the ehildren to draw pictures of their favorite foods on the paper piąte. As the ehildren work, circułate among them to writc the names of the foods on the pictures. Lot students compare their pictures to their classmates’ and then display them on a bullctin board or wali.

Cheese and Fruit Sculptures

Skills: Fine-Motor Skills, Creating Sculptures Activity:

Gather toothpicks, chccse, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, raisins and bananas. Cul the cheese into different shapes, scoop the melons out with a melon-baller and slicc the bananas into a variety of shapes. Explain to the students that cheese and fruit are healthy foods that are often served together as a snack or appetizer. Since these foods are usually cut into smali pieces, toothpicks are often used to pick them up instead of forks or spoons. Allow the ehildren to use toothpicks with the food shapes to create sculpted snacks. (Supervisc students as they work with the toothpicks.) When students havo finished, have them removc their toothpicks and eat their snacks.

Ice Cream Biot Painting

Skills: Fine-Motor Skills, Crcativity, Following Directions Activity:

Use one of the page 55 pattems as a template to cut an ice cream shape from construction paper for each child in the class. Place the paper shapes, along with tempera paint and paint brushes, on the art table. Allow each child a tum at the table. As each student works, instrucl him to begin by folding his pattem in half verlically and then unfolding it. He is then lo use the paint brushes to pul blobs of paint a)l over his ice cream cone. When he has finished dabbing the paint on his cone, he is to fold the pattem and gently press the sides together. He is then to opon the ice cream paltem to reveal a unique design.

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