To play, everyone stands in a circle with a fruit picture around their necks. You, the teacher, start the game by standing in the center of the circle. This game can be done with v egetables too. Then throw a towel over the fruits. Reach in and remove one.
Children then guess which fruit is missing.
Increase the difficulty by adding more fruit pictures, or add v egetables to the mix and have the children tell you whether a fruit or vegetable is missing. On a table, children take turns laying vegetables out in a pattern. Play the same game with fruits. Set up a pretend grocery store with empty food boxes, plastic fruit, etc. Catrina, the cat, fixes a spaghetti dinner every Wednesday for her feline friends although the human family she lives with thinks she spends the day all alone while they're away at work and school.