Crafts for Kids: S is for Strawberry!

by Nov 27, 2019abcd, Alphabetical, Crafts, Food, Fruits and Veggies

 

S is for sweet delicious strawberry! Use strawberry crafts like this one to teach your kids the letter S! It is nice to see your child decorate the strawberry. Strawberries fall under a Fruits and Veggies theme and are very healthy.

Skills

Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this strawberry applies these skills:

Math

There is not much math, but you can have your child practice counting as they are decorating his/her strawberry. Afterwards, you can ask what number they count to. You’ll be surprised as they skip the numbers all around. This would be a good teaching moment to help them count correctly.

Science

Ask the student if strawberry is a fruit or vegetable. Label the parts of an apple: stem, leaves, core, skin, seeds, and flesh. This is a great way to introduce new vocabulary to young students. Imagine your child labeling and teaching you parts of a strawberry.

Fine Motor Skills

With the tissue papers, the child will use their hand-eye coordination to glue it on the strawberry template.

Your child will focus and do their best to trace and cut out the strawberry template.

Using their cutting skills, your child will cut out the strawberry with your supervision.

Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional

Your child can pretend to eat the strawberry and tell you how it tastes; if it is sweet, sour, bitter, delicious, and so on. Just be careful your child doesn’t get too excited and accidently put the strawberry in his/her mouth!

Boundaries

Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.

Materials

You will need the following items: a strawberry template, a letter “s” template white construction paper, red and green tissue paper, markers, and glue.

White construction paper, red tissue paper, strawberry shape template, and a letter S template

Scissors, pencil, glue, markers, and do-a-dot markers

Steps

Depending on the child’s fine motor skills, have the child trace the strawberry template and letter “s” template onto a white construction paper and cut it out. If the child does not have the cutting skills, you can prompt or do it for the child.

Use the pre-cut tissue papers and have your child glue it on the strawberry template.

Use the Do-A-Dot green marker to decorate the letter “s” for the stem.

With your guidance, have the child cut approximately two to three pieces of yarn about 2 inches long.

Have the child glue the letter “s” which is the stem on the front of the strawberry.

And ta da! Your strawberry is ready to go!

Modifications

Instead of using white construction paper for the stem, you can use green construction paper. The same goes for the strawberry; use red construction paper. You can always have the child decorate it with yarn, markers, colored pencils, and/or crayons.

You can also have the child paint the apple with a paintbrush, their fingers, or sponges to create different effects. This will give the child an opportunity to explore sensory skills.

Strawberry For ALL!

Strawberries are delicious and healthy, just as all berries. Lots of vitamin C and antioxidants to keep your skin and teeth healthy! Use strawberry crafts to get your kids to enjoy something healthy!

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