Materials
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fruits and vegetables |
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tempera paint |
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foam trays |
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white construction paper |
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markers |
Preparation
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| Cut cross sections of apples, peppers,
carrots, potatoes, oranges, and other fruits and vegetables
that produce clear prints. Place some sections that still contain
seeds on paper towels and label. Prepare other sections for
printing: Remove seeds from fruit. Place these fruit and vegetable
sections on trays. Pour tempera paint into separate trays, matching
the natural colors of fruits and vegetables as closely as possible.
Set up several stations with printmaking supplies so that children
can work in small groups. |
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| CAUTION: Remind students that
the fruits and vegetables they are using to make prints are
not for eating. |
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Teaching the Lesson
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Demonstrate how to lightly press
a fruit or vegetable section into paint and then press on paper
and lift up to make a print. |
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Let children make
their own prints, dipping fruits and vegetables in paint that
best matches their natural colors. |
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When the prints dry, have children
study the corresponding samples on the paper towels that still
contain seeds and draw the seeds on their fruit prints. (The
prints made with vegetables will not have seeds.) This will
reinforce children's understanding that only fruits have seeds.
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Stack bottles to display, or arrange
them along a chalkboard ledge. |
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 Let
children make more fruit and vegetable prints, using whatever
colors they like. This is a good opportunity to add patterning
extensions, letting children start patterns for other children
to continue. You can do the same, using fruits and vegetables
to start patterns for students to continue. (You can make
copies of them after the paint dries to make a class set of
patterns to play with.)
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 Share
Lunch by Denise Fleming (Henry Holt, 1992), the story of a hungry
mouse who eats nine fruits and vegetables and leaves little
stains that have everyone guessing. Begin by reading the story.
Together, write a sequel that introduces the hungry mouse to
some new fruits and vegetables. Using the fruit and vegetable
stamps, have students work in groups to illustrate and write
pages for a class book. One child can draw a mouse on the page,
another can use a fruit or vegetable to make a print, a third
can write or dictate the text. Before putting pages together,
decide on the order in which the mouse will eat the fruits and
vegetables. Have children use their fingertips to smudge the
colors of each previous fruit or vegetable on the mouse (like
the mouse in the book). Brainstorm a title for the sequel (perhaps
someone will recommend Dinner), and add a colorful cover. |
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