What are some good preschool crafts for the theme vegetables?

Question

This is for 4 and 5 year olds.

Answer 1

Well I would have the children make some their favorite vegetable out of macaroni, and use water paint that is always fun you can also have them do paper-filled vegetables first you draw some vegetables with little faces and punch little holes around them so they can put yarn through so they can later fill them with paper and then they can have fun painting them .... well hope you like these ideas and they help you .... please let me know

Answer 2

Well my mom showed me how to make objects out of veggies and i showed my sister. She was four at the time and had alot of fun. She made a car and little people too. Just search how to make vegetable crafts and it should come up.

Answer 3

well since its vegitables, cut potatoes with shapes in them (like stars, circles, triangles things like that)

have them draw their favourite vegitable, but then spice it up and get the vegitable to be doing something special like being a superhero

Answer 4

Check out www.perpetualpreschool.com they have theme based activities for almost anything.

Answer 5

I'm not a fan of preschool crafts but here are some art and other activities to do with vegetables.  :-)

Potato Masher Art:  Use the potato masher as a big stamp for making interesting prints with thick tempera paint.  Rub a thin layer of petroleum jelly on the ends of the aluminum masher to make the paint stick better.

Carrot Dough:  Make basic playdough and mix shredded carrots and enough powdered tempera paint to give a bright orange color.

Colorful Corn:  Set out several ears of colorful Indian corn for the children to examine.  What colors do they see?  Remove the kernels from the corn.  Let the children use to create colorful collages on heavy paper.

Digging for Potatoes:  Fill a large bucket or barrel with dirt.  Bury 10-20 potatoes in the dirt.  Talk with the children about how potatoes grow in the dirt.  Ask them to think about how a farmer might harvest potatoes.  Then show them the bucket of dirt.  Let the children gently dig through the dirt and “harvest” the potatoes in it.

Kitchen Scale:  Have the children weigh as they clean them for snack.  What weight more/less?

• May wish to use for fruit as well.

Groomed Veggies:  Near the water table, set out a tray of small root veggies such as carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, and turnips.  Provide the children with veggie brushes so that they can wash the fresh vegetables for their snack.  Serve raw root vegetables with dip, toss them in a salad, or cook them in soup.

• Transfer the brushes into a puppet by placing small circular stickers on the handle for eyes and nose.  The brush bristles become the puppet’s hair.

The Root of the Matter:  Need:  One bunch of carrots with the greens still attached, knife, cutting board, foil pie pans, sand, container of water

Cut out a carrot-shaped chart from paper; and label with yes and no on top.  Show the children the bunch of carrots.  Ask if they think we can get them to grow.  Discuss and then record each child’s response.  Show the students a carrot and explain the orange part is the root and grows under the ground.  Then show students the spot on the carrot where the leaves begin to grow.  Explain that this is called the growing tip.  Pass the carrots around for your youngsters to examine.  Cut off the leaves of each carrot without cutting into the growing tip.  Cut off the bottoms of each carrot leaving one inch below the growing tip.  Fill the pie pans with sand; then push the carrot tops into the sand.  Wet the sand thoroughly. Have the student predict what they think will happen to the tops.  Check on the carrots each day and water the sand to keep it wet.  In less than a week, new leaves will begin to sprout out of the carrot tops!  Why:  Each carrot top contains almost everything the plant needs to grow.  The root contains food for the plant, but the plant also needs water.  Watering the roots help the carrot top receive the food and begin producing more leaves.

Shucking Corn:  Cover a table with newspaper and set out a bucket or bowl of corn to be shucked.  Show the children how to removed the husk and silk from each ear of corn.  Place a big pan in the center of the table to hold the shucked corn.

Mashed Potato Fun:  Stir water into instant mashed potato flakes. Then add food coloring.

Snip Soup: Materials: Several colors of construction paper cut into strips, small bowls and scissors. Description: Have the children cut the paper, one color at a time, into the bowl.  They can pretend that they are cutting vegetables for soup.  This activity can also be used to assess children's knowledge of colors.

Answer 6

PRINT/PAINT WITH  VEGETABLES

Try corn,  cucumbers, radishes,  carrots, beans, cauliflower, peppers, avocado, mushroom, shapes carved into a potato

Materials you'll need: Paint, Flat pan for Paint, Fruits and Vegetables, Paper towels for drying vegetables, newspapers, cloth or paper for printing/painting.

Cut  the vegetables---then dip them in paint and print.

ON THE FARM VEGETABLE PUPPETS

What you need:

--large carrots

--Popsicle sticks (craft)

--cream cheese

--raisins and/or olives

--celery

--parsley

--green beans

Peel a carrot & cut off both ends.

With a paring knife (adults only), make a slit in the bottom of the larger end and insert a craft stick.

Using the cream cheese as "glue", affix raisins or olives for eyes and a nose, a slice of celery for the mouth and parsley sprigs for the hair. Let the kids be creative with the different vegetables.

For the arms & legs, cut green beans in half & affix with generous amounts of cream cheese (cut the legs at an angle).

For a veggie PUPPET SHOW, the puppeteers need to hide below a table, holding the puppets above the edge!

Yummy puppets to eat when finished

CORN ART

Eat corn on the cob with children, (or at home) save the husks and corncobs, and let them dry. Have the children use them for art activities.

1. Make prints by dipping the corncobs into paint and then pressing them on paper

2. Dip ends of husks into paint and then brush the paint on paper.

GARDEN COLLAGE OF SEEDS

Need: Large piece of green construction paper, glue, and several types of inexpensive dried seeds and beans (popcorn, lima beans, pinto beans, and navy beans, etc.)

Directions: Have children squeeze out a long stripe of glue along the length of paper. Spread the glue slightly, keeping the long thin shape; sprinkle or place one type of seed along the glue strip.

Make two or three more stripes of glue--adding different types of seeds to each. The finished collage should remind one of the rows of seeds planted in a spring garden

SPRING/SUMMER HUNT FOR SEEDS

Put a selection of fruits and vegetables out. (you could just do vegetable) Ask the children to tell you which items have seeds inside them. Have the children sort them into seed and no seed piles. Open them up to see what you find out. Keep the seeds for other activities.

Slice the fruits and vegetables and enjoy.

Put out a batch of different colored PLAY DOUGH---and invite children to make pretend vegetables with it!

MAKE MASHED POTATO PLAY DOUGH

Need:Five potatoes, Flour

Bake potatoes in their skins until 'eating consistency' soft  Peel and then mash the potatoes. Combine three cups flour to every four cups of mashed potato and roll until you form a good dough.

A GAME...VEGETABLE MEMORY GAME

Use a small basket or box and put in about 6 to ____ items. (The amount depends on the age of the children) Show the items in the box to the children---and then play What's Missing? Remove one or more items out of the box (without children seeing you). Have the children guess what items are missing.

Answer 7

use celery leaves to paint, have the children hold the stalk and paint with the leaves, the same can be done with hlding a carrot and painting with those leaves.

you can cut up a potatoe in different shapes and use them as a stamp..

you can take a cucumber and paint while rolling it back and fourth on a big sheet of paper.