Berries, fruits and vegetables, perhaps, remain the most suitable objects for developing activities with children. On the example of a variety of fruits, one can study forms, colors, smells, textures, tastes. And most importantly, these products are only beneficial. If you want to teach your child a healthy lifestyle from an early age, use available fruits and vegetables and instill a love for them with the help of riddles, short poems and original puzzles.
What banana puzzles teach
An exotic guest - banana - one of the most inexpensive fruits on the Russian market. You can even make scientific experiments with him: let the child watch day after day, as the bright yellow peel turns black, and then peel the fruit and make sure that the flesh remains snow-white inside. Explain the difference in the usefulness of yellow-green bananas and their more ripe counterparts, covered with the first dark spots: the latter bring more benefits to the body, but contain a lot of sugar. Greenish fruits cannot boast such an impressive amount of nutrients, but they are not sugary and usually tastes better than ripe bananas. Here is the first banana puzzle for children:
Hanging on a tree - green,
And he lay down on the shelf - turned yellow.
Lying, lying - black outside!
And I took it and ate the white one!
Unexpected associations
Riddles about a banana are numerous: here are comparisons of its shape with a crescent or rocker, and hints of a sweet taste, and descriptions of delicate pulp, and references to slippery peels and classic Disney jokes. Who doesn’t remember cartoons about Mickey Mouse, where the famous black mouse slips on a dropped banana peel? Encourage the children to safely repeat experiments: of course, it is not worth falling, but it is always interesting to check whether the peel really glides so if you step on it.
"Banana" is one of the few words that sound very similar in different languages. Create your own children's riddles about bananas based on dictionaries - let the name of your favorite fruit be the first word you learn in English, German or French.