Funny fruity faces!
Funny fruity faces!
Make fruit into fun faces
Materials Required
- A variety of fruit
- Knife
- Plate
- Chopping board
Shopping list (if you go together to buy the fruit)
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime5 - 15 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Prepare a clean and clear space - Talk with your child about the fruit - If your child is old enough they can cut up some softer fruits - You might like to already have some fruit cut up.Experience Steps
- Take your child to the supermarket and select fruits they enjoy (optional).
- With close supervision and support, allow your child to cut some of the fruit.
- Have fruit sliced into different shapes and sizes.
- Arrange/sort fruit on a plate.
- Make some silly faces with your child using your own facial expressions.
- Talk about each fruit e.g. s it crunchy, soft, squishy?
- Enjoy eating the funny faces you have created!
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- Texture: crunchy, soft, hard, squishy
- Fruit names
- Chop/cut
- Talk about different facial expressions/emotions - happy, sad, angry, etc.
- Talk about the differences/similarities of the fruit
Build on this...
- Make fruit stick kebabs.
- Decorate biscuits with funny faces.
- Making the different expressions/emotions with our faces in a mirror.
- Add some interesting vegetables (e.g. celery, carrot, cucumber).
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This is a quiet fun activity. Walking around the supermarket to collect the fruit for this experience would encourage more physical activity.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
- Children feel safe, secure, and supported
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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