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Vegetables

A Harvest of Color

Sophie and her friends work together to grow a neighborhood vegetable garden. From zucchini to potatoes to carrots, the kids grow it all. Page by page, vegetable by vegetable A Harvest of Color gives great gardening advice in the voice of the children, and offers hints that are helpful to any gardener, old or young. You’ll love the book’s realistic photographs of Sophie and her friends gardening.

Children gain knowledge and interest in new fruits and vegetables through making an alphabet boarder for the classroom. Students learn to identify new fruits and vegetables. Students work together to complete a class project.

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Children gain confidence in trying new foods and become familiar with a new vegetable. Through a hands-on activity, children explore a new vegetable and taste two varieties of cabbage.

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Students learn to identify new fruits and vegetables. Students associate vegetables and fruits with a positive experience making a fun art project.

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Children gain knowledge and interest in new fruits and vegetables through making fruit and vegetable spinners.

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Cool as a Cucumber

A lift the flap book featuring a variety of vegetables, their different parts, and things that they are similar to.

Davenport Dumpling

Chef Henri sets out to make the perfect vegetable stew, and winds up with a melting pot of different vegetable personalities and cultures. Each vegetable finds that they are even more delicious with the help of their friends. The story is told in rhyme and teaches the importance of acceptance and cooperation.

Delicious A Pumpkin Soup Story

The only kind of soup that the duck, squirrel, and cat eat and enjoy is pumpkin soup, but when they can’t find a ripe pumpkin they are forced to try something new! This book includes a recipe for pink beet soup.

Do Lions Like Lettuce

Find out who eats lettuce, fish, bananas and more in this fun lift-the-flap guessing book!

Eating the Alphabet Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

A good way to introduce new veggies and fruits.