A week ago, I published a Montessori-inspired vegetable unit. Today, I want to share ideas for a Montessori-inspired fruit unit. Since grocery stores today have fruit year-round, you can have a fruit unit at any time. Still, summer is my favorite time for a fruit unit, especially when there’s access to some homegrown fruits.
Montessori-Inspired Fruit Printables
Fruit Printables(a number of different types available for purchase) from Montessori Print Shop
Free Whole and Half Fruit Cards and Fruit Printables (available for purchase) from Montessori for Everyone
Free Inside Outside Fruit Cards from At Home with Montessori
Fruit Match-Up and Memory Cards (Image from 1+1+1=1)
Free Fruit Memory and Match-Up Cards and Free Letter Aa Printables from 1+1+1=1 (Photo from Tot School Printables)
Free Fruit and Vegetable 3-Part Cards from Homemade Montessori (with download page at Homemade Montessori Free Downloads)
Free Fruit Cards from Le Jardin de Kiran
Free Fruit Nomenclature Cards from Montessori for Learning
Free Tropical Edibles 3-Part Cards from Mother of Discussion
Free Printable Fruit Preschool Number Sequence Puzzle from Montessori By Mom
Free Fruit and Colors Matching from Z Lesa
Free Fruit and Vegetable Matching Cards, Fruit Inside and Out Matching Cards, and Fruit Matching Game from The Helpful Garden
Free Montessori Botany Materials for a Gardening Unit (my roundup post)
Humans and Plants (Botany Elementary Sample Lesson), including activities for exploring fruits and vegetables from North American Montessori Center
Montessori-Inspired Fruit Activities
Montessori-Inspired Fruit Matching and Tasting for Toddlers
Montessori-Inspired Food Art
Montessori-Inspired Food Preparation for Preschoolers (my roundup post, which includes LOTS of activities with fruit)
Montessori-Inspired Gardening Unit (with a number of applicable botany posts)
Montessori-Inspired Apple Unit (my roundup post)
Very Hungry Caterpillar Lunch (Photo from OurMontessoriHome.Wordpress.com)
The Very Hungry Kiddo Pair from OurMontessoriHome.Wordpress.com
Montessori for Toddlers: Transferring Lemons from Bluebirdkisses
Sensorial Activity: A Basket Full of Fruits and Vegetables from Montessori DOTNET
Fruit Activity for a 16 Month Old (from Montessori ici)
Multi-Age Activity – Fruits from Montessori ici
Transferring Fruit Erasers with a Strawberry Huller (Photo from Counting Coconuts)
Transferring Fruit and Fruit Cards and Counters from Counting Coconuts (and a number of fruit food preparation activities linked to in my Montessori-Inspired Food Preparation for Preschoolers post)
Inside Outside Fruit Art (Photo from How We Montessori)
Inside Outside Fruit from How We Montessori
Watercolor Blocks with Fruit Colors (Photo from wordplayhouse)
Make Watercolor Blocks from Wordplayhouse
Fruit and Vegetable Sorting by Kylie from How We Montessori at Modern Parents Messy Kids
Fantastic Fruitty Fruit (and Veggies Too)! (with ideas for encouraging kids to eat healthy foods) from Kathy’s Montessori Life
Healthy Food Activities the Montessori Way: Getting Children to Taste New Foods by Jocelyn Scotty at Kids Activities @ Suite 101
Enjoy some delicious and healthy fun with fruit! 🙂
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Yes, young preschool students love to study food. My students love reading The Hungry Caterpillar book then playing the game to go with the book. Lots of fruit in that book. http://www.brennaphillips.com/hungry-caterpillar-game
Thanks for your comment, Brenna! I always loved The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and activities that went with it. It’s great that it can reinforce the idea of eating fruit along with a number of other skills. Thanks for sharing the link to an activity your students enjoy! 🙂
What a terrific unit! I just love all the colors of fruit and the things you can do!
Thanks so much, Deborah! I feel the same way … I love fruit for healthy eating as well as all the great things that can be done with it! 🙂
Thanks for sharing my printables Deb! 😉
My pleasure, Carisa! And thank you for all the awesome printables and great activities you offer at your site! 🙂
What a wonderful unit! When my kids were little, I loved exploring new foods with them. I’d take them in the vege/fruit isle and let them pick out new fruits,etc. to try.
Thank you for your sweet comment about my most recent post.
Take Care,
Jen
Thanks so much Jen! What great experiences you’re giving your children! 🙂
Thanks for sharing the printables. This will be a great unit to make picking healthy back to school lunches and snacks fun!
Thanks for your comment, Amy! I hope you’re able to use some of the printables and activities. Have a great school year! 🙂
Deb – I made up 3 part Montessori cards for the tropical fruit trees (lemongrass & sugarcane are the non trees)in our yard. They’re fun for anyone who wants to see where a banana comes from.
http://motherofdiscussion.blogspot.com/2012/08/tropical-edibles-3-part-montessori-cards.html
Thanks so much for letting me know, Christa … and thanks for generously sharing your cards! I added your link to my post! 🙂
Deb – Thanks for adding them. Hope they’re useful for people. Christa
What a teriffic resource! Love how it’s all in one place. Thanks, just pinned this. Vicky from http://www.messforless.net
Thanks so much Vicky … and thanks for pinning my post! 🙂
Great post Deb, as always. We just wrapped up an apple unit, and I intended to expand it to include fruit in general but ran out of time. I’m pinning this for another unit! Thanks for linking up to The Sunday Showcase.
Thanks for your kind comment, Allison! I just pinned your apple post to my Apple Unit Study Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/apple-unit-study/. 🙂
Featured this fabulous post today on The Sunday Showcase!
Thanks SO MUCH … I really appreciate your featuring my post! 🙂
This a a great unit, especially to teach healthy eating and to add to a unit on the food pyramid.
For an activity for technology/computer learners, check out the Fruit Finder app for the Kindle Fire.
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