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Themed units are an excellent way to teach a wide variety of content in a fun and engaging way for young children. Exploring a fruit theme with your toddlers, preschoolers, or kindergarten learners this year is a great way to explore lots of different early learning topics! This Fruit Matching Game Printable is a fun activity to add to any health or nutrition theme. You can explore our sense of taste with a fruit taste test and build early literacy skills with fun fruit themed stories. For even more fruit learning fun, I’ve created a really cute fruit matching game that’s tons of fun for young learners to explore at home or in the classroom. This fruit matching game printable is perfect for building important critical thinking skills, improving problem-solving skills, strengthening spatial awareness, and enhancing visual perception with your kids. Plus, it’s a lot of fun to play! Keep reading to discover more fruit-themed fun and get your own fruit matching game printable today.
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Reading aloud to kids is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do. Reading builds vocabulary, encourages children to practice reading fluency, and helps kids fall in love with the magic of books. A fruit-themed unit study wouldn’t be complete without some creative, fruity stories to read aloud to your kids. When your fruity tales are done, encourage children to create their own fruit-themed story. Provide plenty of paper, pencils, and crayons or markers. Very young children can tell their stories through art. Encourage older children to practice their writing skills by writing their stories as well as illustrating them. Fruit salad is easy to make, it’s healthy and delicious! It’s the perfect recipe to make with kids. Even very young children can help make a fruit salad. Getting kids into the kitchen at an early age is a great way to encourage curiosity about food and cooking. Plus, helping prepare meals is the perfect way to encourage picky eaters to try something new.
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In a viral TikTok video, fitness influencer Jeffrey Harris dumps strawberries, blueberries, and grapes into bowls. He fills the bowls with water and tops them off with a mix of apple cider vinegar and baking soda. A quick cut later, the water is so brown it makes him grimace. That’s probably the moment when more than 1 million people hit the like button and added "start cleaning fruit with baking soda and vinegar" to their to-do lists. But do those extra steps really help remove more dirt and pesticides from the fruit you snack on at work and at home, or is it just a social media trend? To find out, we spoke with Meta Dunn, a food safety consultant who has helped The FruitGuys keep our office fruit deliveries healthy and safe for over ten years. She’s a certified Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and has also completed the Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) training on regulatory requirements for growing fresh produce.
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