Vegetable Printing
No matter how often
you've been told not to, it's still fun to play with food. Kids know it.
Objectives
Children ages 4-5 years can cut with knife SH I
Children ages 3-4 can use texture, shape, size, and color to describe an
object Cog. I
All children participating will be able to identify or names a variety of vegetables
and understand the process of printing or stamping.
Materials
Serrated table knives;
various vegetables that can be sliced into
firm pieces, e.g. cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, onions; paint-soaked sponges in
saucers; paper
Procedures
Language to emphasize:
vegetable names, seeds, pulp, crunch, few, cold, hot (any qualitative
descriptors).
With children sitting around a table, let each choose a knife and vegetable
to cut in half. While they're cutting, ask them how they like to eat these
foods (hot, cold, with sauce, not at all) and talk about qualitative
differences (e.g., weight, color, shape, texture, taste, etc.). Next, suggest that
the vegetable halves can be trimmed off at intervals with a sharp knife
(wielded by teacher only).
Extension: Sculptures: Cut the vegetables up after the printing is done and
save for the next day. The pieces can be stuck together with straws and toothpicks
to make organic sculptures. They can even be painted. Variations 1. Potato prints: Carve shapes of several different animal footprints into potato halves (bird, fox, horse, sheep, mountain lion, person, etc.). When used on white paper these prints can serve as the bssis for great adventure stories of people and animals in the snow. Give children felt pens to draw houses, trees, lakes, etc. to illustrate the stories. 2. More potato prints: Carve designs, letters, facial expressions, etc. into the ends of potato halves. Leave some halves for the children to try carving their own designs. .
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