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Age range: 3-6

Theme Area: Making Fruit Salad

Related Episode: The Big Cake Mix-Up

Subjects/Skills: Listening; Following Directions; Nutrition

Materials Needed:
A variety of your child's favorite fruits
Bowl
Spoon
Paper
Marker

Directions:
Write the ingredients and directions for making a fruit salad on a sheet of paper. You can make the ingredients any mixture of your child's favorite fruits, for example, 1 banana, 1 orange, and a handful of raisins. Then, write the steps below the ingredients list, for example.

Peel a banana.
Ask a grown-up to cut the banana into slices.
Put the banana slices into a bowl.
Ask a grown-up to peel an orange.
Take apart the orange sections.
Put the orange sections in the bowl.
Sprinkle a handful of raisins into the bowl.
Use a spoon to mix it all up.

Read the ingredients and directions aloud to your child. Help her to gather the ingredients. Ask her to use her memory to remember the list. If she has trouble remembering, ask her to think of ways that can help her remember the list.

When all the ingredients have been gathered, read the steps aloud to your child. Ask her to repeat the steps after you. If she has trouble remembering the steps, again ask her to think of a way to solve the problem.

Work with your child to make the fruit salad. Then enjoy it as a snack together.

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