Make healthy eating fun with "Go, Go, Grapes!"

Hip, hip, hooray for April Pulley Sayre and Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant! How do you make healthy eating fun? With Sayre’s vibrant photos of fruits taken at her local farmer’s market paired with her contagious rhymes:
“Nectarines, tangerines,
hit the spot.
Glum? Go plum.
Or apricot!”

Before you read the book, ask your kids, “What do you think a mangosteen is? Or a pomegranate?” Read Go, Go Grapes! and see if your kids can discover what those uncommon words mean. Reread the book and encourage kids to chime in (“Fruit is fun!”) Then, bring the book with you to the farmer's market or grocery store, and see how many of these fruits you can find. See if there are some new fruits your family wants to try! Load up on fresh fruits and have a fruit-tasting party!

Next, play “Cross the Line”: have all the kids stand on one side of the room and put a string line down the middle. Say “Cross the line if you liked kiwi,” and go through the fruits you tried. Take photos of the fruits and have kids use those Logic Smarts to sort the photos – by color, or by which they liked and which they didn’t. With all the gorgeous colors of fresh produce, you can make a “color wheel” using fruits –  challenge kids to eat a rainbow! Go, Go, Grapes, hooray for healthy eating, and super job, Ms. Sayre!

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