Vegetables Above & Below Ground

by Kim

Are you planting a Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter garden this season? Obviously, this depends on where you live. Here is a fun vegetable lessons craft that helps teach your children about the different kinds of vegetables that grow in a garden. I got this idea from my son’s teacher and we did it at home with all of the kids.

Vegetable Lessons Craft

You will need two paper plates (for each child), a paper fastener, markers, scissors, and glue.

Draw out some various kinds of vegetables. Be sure to make sure you have root veggies and surface veggies. Oh, and no laughing at the drawings. I never claimed to be an artist. 😉

Let your child color in the vegetables. We got silly and I said that carrots are blue. She was quick to correct me and inform me that I must not know my colors well. Then she offered to teach them to me. So we went through all of the colors. It was fun.

Cutting these out can be a little difficult, so be sure to let your child know it doesn’t have to be on the lines.

Draw a line through the middle of both plates. Have your child cut along the line of only one of the plates. Close enough counts here, too.

For the other plate, color one half blue for the sky and the other brown for the ground.

Now glue the vegetables on the plate. This is a great time to talk about the different ways the plants grow. We also talked about the different ways they are harvested, too. Some cut, some pulled.

Next, take the cut plate and label the halves “Tops” and “Bottoms”.

Finally, attach the halves of the vegetable lessons craft to the decorated plate. Now the halves slide open and reveal the top growing vegetables and the bottom growing vegetables.

The kids are even more excited for our garden to start producing now. Of course, we can’t wait to pick/pull the vegetables. The kids suggested some recipe ideas, as well.

 

Kim is a contributing writer for No Time For Flash Cards, a mom to a toddler, a preschooler, and a foster parent, too. She juggles her day by trying out fun activities and crafts with the kids. After all, she is just a big kid herself. See what she has been up to over at Mom Tried It.