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Activities:
*Make a rainbow snack with blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, grapes, and pineapple. Clean the fruit and cut it into bite-size pieces. Children take wooden skewers and insert the pieces of fruit on the skewers to make a rainbow kabob.
*Brainstorm different parts of plants that you can eat.
Leaves – lettuce, spinach, cabbage
Stems – celery, asparagus, rhubarb
Roots – sweet potatoes, carrots, onions
Flowers – cauliflower, broccoli Seeds – sunflower, pumpkin, walnuts.
As you are eating lunch or snack, comment, “Mmmm! Don’t you love these leaves? How does that root taste? Would you like some more flowers?”
*What is a vegetarian? What do you eat that would make you a vegetarian? What do you eat that would make you a non-