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Instructions

Favorite Fruit
Use this petal book and pictures provided to pick 6 favorite fruits.  Write the name of the fruit under the picture if you so choose.

Favorite Vegetable
Use this petal book and pictures provided to pick 6 favorite vegetables.  Write the name of the fruit under the picture if you so choose.

Color Match
This is a matching game.  Place the correct colored fruit or vegetable into the correct color pocket.

My Cooking Project
Pick out a recipe from your favorite cookbook or website.  One site I like is www.recipezaar.com.  Review the recipe with your child and make a shopping list.  Take a field trip to the grocery store to pick out the ingredients.  Once you are back home make the recipe.  Use the file folder to copy or print and paste your recipe!  If you want take a photo of your finished project and add it to the file along with your recipe.

Money/Grocery Store Game
When we go to the grocery store we spend money.  This is a good way to introduce money to your child.  Print out your play money from one of the site above and store it in the money pocket.   Review what each coin is with your child.  Play store and practice counting with the dollar bills.  Use the picture cards and vary the amount you “charge” your child for each item.  Picture cards can be stored in the picture pocket.

Healthy Eating
Eating healthy is important for a healthy body.  Things your body needs every day are fruit, vegetables, grains, protein and diary.  Limiting sweets and fatty foods is important for a healthy body.  This activity had two minit books and pictures of different types of food.  Have your child glue the pictures of the healthy foods in the “Good for Me” book.  Have your child glue the pictures of the junk food in the “Bad for Me” book.

Use the matchbooks to introduce the concept of the five different food groups.  (Remember, meat includes things like beans, eggs, and peanut butter, too.) 

What do I see at the Grocery Store?
Use this accordion book to glue pictures and write things that you see at the grocery store!  There are two pages for this book.  Just glue the tab to the underside of the first book and keep folding. 

Songs and Poems
Enjoy teaching your little student the songs and poems in the simple fold books.  For extra fun, add hand motions!

My Grocery List
~Give your student a grocery ad.  Let him cut out the items he would like to purchase and paste them in the book.
~Write a list on the inside of the book (leaving appropriate space between words).  Let your student search through a grocery ad for the items and paste them to the inside of the book.
~Give your older student a budget.  Help him look through the ad and decide how he will spend his money.   As he decides on each item, help him enter the numbers in a calculator to see how much he has left.  Write the amount he had to spend at the top of the inside of the book.  Cut and paste the items to the inside and write the price by each item. 

My Coupons
~Help your student sort the coupons by department.  Departments included are dairy, health & beauty, cleaning supplies, bakery, produce, frozen foods, and pet supplies.
~Print two copies for a memory matching game.
~Use the play money to show your student how much each coupon is worth.  Which one is worth the most?

Other Ideas
~Have a “scavenger” hunt and give your child a list of things to find while shopping.

~Built your own grocery store with a cardboard box.  Add a pretend cash register, play food and play money and go shopping.

~If your child has a set of play food, let him sort it by size, color, or group (fruit, vegetable, dairy, meat, bread). 

~Play I Spy with the grocery ad- look for colors, shapes, numbers, and letters.  Let your older student find and circle items as you call them out. 

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Resources

Web Sites to Visit

http://www.mypyramid.gov/KIDS/

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/money.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/money.shtml

Books to Read

Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell

Don't Forget the Bacon by Pat Hutchins

To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda The Kid’s Cookbook by Abigail Dodge

Why Should I Eat this Carrot? By Louise Spilsburg

The Kids Guide to Money and Cent$ by Keltie Thomas

Learning about Coins by Rozanne Williams

Pigs will be Pigs by Amy Axelrod

Showdown at the Food Pyramid by Rex Barron

Grandpa’s Corner Store by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert

Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat