Art
- Ask students to paint what fresh produce are healthy, fast and delicious alternatives to takeaway food
- Draw fruit or vegetables that grow in your local area. Highlight the colours and textures of fresh produce
- Draw the fruit or vegetable they eat at home
- Draw fruit or vegetables using different media such as pencils, watercolours, crayons, chalk or pastels
- Investigate how food changes over time, through drawing a picture of a whole banana, one with some brown spots and a very overripe banana
- Create fruit and vegetable collage or mosaics from magazines or food catalogues
Performing arts
- Use fruit or vegetable characters to write a catchy jingle or rhyme that promotes healthy eating
- Students can perform a short play using a fruit or vegetable character that promotes healthy eating
- Create a fruit and vegetable rap, chant or dance that promotes healthy eating
- Explore fruit and vegetable sounds using real produce (cutting, biting, chewing) and recreate these sounds with musical instruments. Create a short musical piece with these sounds
- Sing songs that include a fruit or vegetable theme (e.g. Apples and Bananas, Fruit Salad - The Wiggles, I like to eat apples and bananas).
STEM
- Investigate the impact of the foods we eat on our teeth
- Investigate the seasonality of fruit and vegetables. Which grow in each season?
- Explore the distance travelled by some fruits and vegetables and how this might affect their freshness and cost
- Compare the cost of different types of fruit and vegetables (e.g. fresh vs frozen vs canned)
- Weigh and measure different types of fruit and vegetables
- Track food eaten over the course of the week, with a focus on vegetable intake. How many different vegetables are consumed?
- Visit a local market or farm. Where does your fresh produce come from?
- Plant your own fruit or vegetables and track their growth
Visual arts
- Get inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo and make a fruit or vegetable face portrait. Use photos, magazines or draw/paint
- Use food packaging to create art with messages about healthy food
- Create still life drawings of fruit and vegetables with pencils, watercolours or pastels
- Design a healthy lunchbox with cartoon fruit and vegetable characters
- Use recycled materials to design and make a lunchbox or picnic set
- Create a pattern or print using fruit and vegetables (e.g. cut apples or potatoes, roll corn in paint)
- Make a 'super smoothie' – draw a picture of your ingredients, name your creation and design your packaging.
