Berries, fruits and vegetables, perhaps, remain the mostsuitable objects for developmental activities with children. On the example of a variety of fruits, you can study shapes, colors, smells, textures, tastes. And most importantly, these products only benefit. If you want to accustom a child to a healthy lifestyle from an early age, use the available fruits and vegetables and instill love for them with puzzles, short poems and original puzzles.
Exotic guest - banana - one of the mostinexpensive fruit on the Russian market. With him you can even put scientific experiments: let the child watch day after day, as a bright yellow skin turns black, and then cleanse the fruit and make sure - the flesh inside remained white. Explain the difference in the usefulness of yellow-green bananas and their ripe brothers, covered with the first dark spots: the latter bring the body more benefit, but contain a lot of sugar. Greenish fruit can not boast such an impressive amount of nutrients, but they are not at all sugary and usually taste more palatable than ripe bananas. Here is the first riddle about a banana for children:
Hanging on a tree - green,
And lay down on the shelf - turned yellow.
He lay-lay-black outside!
And I took it and ate it white!
Riddles about the banana are numerous:here and a comparison of its shape with a crescent or a rocker, and hints of sweet taste, and a description of the tender pulp, and reference to slippery skins and classic Disney jokes. Who does not remember cartoons about Mickey Mouse, where the famous black mouse slips on a peeled banana peel? Encourage the children to safely repeat the experiments: it is not necessary to fall, of course, but it is always interesting to check whether the skin is so slippery if it comes.
"Banana" - one of the few words, very similarsounding in different languages. Make up your own children's puzzles about bananas based on dictionaries - let the name of your favorite fruit become the first word learned in English, German or French.
