Simple Fruit Mobile
Have you ever heard the term child directed? Â Basically it is letting the kids’ interests guide their learning. Â It is the very best way for kids to learn… but it is not always easy to accomplish. Â This fruit mobile, provided by my Mom, is a perfect example of child directed in action! Â Thanks Mom, for writing the post… but more so for being such an awesome Grandma!
It all started with a banana.
Little M got a banana off the fruit plate but not to eat.  She also got some markers and scissors.  She didn’t realize it but she was drawing a still life picture.  By the time I saw what she was doing she had a beautiful banana drawn, colored and cut out.
I put the fruit plate on the table and the still life art continued. Â Big M joined in and before long we had a table full of fruit colored and cut out.
I added string, tape and a hole punch and now the project turned into a mobile. Â A very fruity mobile. Â We hung them with tape from the ceiling fan over the kitchen table.
Big M had worked up an appetite by the time they were done.
What a fun morning inspired by Little M’s desire to draw a banana.
For more fun with fruit… make our healthy camping snack: fruit cones.
Great idea. You clubbed art and nutrition in one activity
Wasn’t it great!?!? My Mom is pretty awesome. 😉
This project would be perfect for the study of food groups. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea!
That is wonderful that your daughter initiated this project, I love your kids still life.
Thanks Ali!