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Letter C Activities: C is for Carrot

Welcome to our Letter C printables in our preschool/kindergarten fruit and vegetable series. Our picky eaters may be receptive to our Letter C word this week. This week’s word is Carrot.

If your unfamiliar with our fruit and vegetable series, they are activities that are designed to familiarize children with a fruit or vegetable that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Did your child enjoy the Letter A and Letter B activities? If you missed them, you can download them the Letter A activities here and the Letter B activities here. Additionally, the printables will help them with cutting skills, writing each letter in the word, and eventually working their way to writing the actual word of the week.

Have the kids find the fruit/vegetables in the magazines or seed catalogues. They can practice cutting and pasting the picture on to a piece of paper. I requested catalogues from various on-line seed sites. They are wonderful for this activity, and they are free. If you have other magazines that you can use, that’s fine too. Pictures are great visuals for kids.

They can also color our carrot coloring page. Did you know that carrots can be orange, but also yellow, purple, black, red, and white.

Additionally, talk about how carrots can be used. For example, with dips, soup or feeding animals. Use our Carrot Fact Sheet to come up with a few other interesting facts to share. For example, discuss how carrots are different colors. You can also discuss the animals who love carrots.

Also, fix a snack using carrots for our Letter C activities. Making food fun can help eliminate picky eater problems too. Whip up a batch of hummus and dip carrot sticks in it. How about a carrot smoothie or a piece of carrot cake. Letter C is for Carrots. Also, stay tuned for Letter C Snack ideas.

Finally, you can download more of our Letter C activities here. Our next lesson will be Letter D Activities: D is for Dates. You may also like our carrot Kindergarten Matching Activities.

Preschool Garden Vegetable Printables

Today, I’m sharing parenting tips on preschool garden vegetable printables for kids. I found these kids coloring pages at www.vegetable-gardening-online.com. So, I thought I would share them with my readers. These vegetable coloring pages are a fun way to expose children to gardening. Furthermore, you can discuss the importance of vegetables in our diet.

It’s also a great way to start a conversation about backyard vegetable gardening with your children too. They can become familiar with growing their own food. Getting children involved in gardening teaches them to nurture and to become self-sufficient. Furthermore, children should learn to be responsible at an early age. Responsibility will become a life lesson.

Teaching children to become self-sufficient is imperative. One of the best ways to become self-sufficient is to grow your own fruit and vegetables. So, start small and build you garden over time. First, try planting kaleidoscope carrots to peak your child’s interest. Orange can be boring so add a little color. Plant kaleidoscope carrots that are yellow, purple, orange, red and sometimes white.

Another interesting project is to plant colored popcorn. Popcorn is a favorite on movie night. Husk the corn after it has dried and store for movie night. Furthermore, tomatoes come in different colors too. I plant red, yellow, orange and purple tomatoes. Get creative and make it a family event. Children often like what you like. If you introduce them to things early, it will stick with them.

My grandchildren love gardening. I introduced them to gardening by allowing them to water my garden. I allowed them to pick peppers and green beans. Soon they wanted to plant their own vegetables.

Furthermore, allow your children to explore seed catalogues. They can check out different varieties of plants and flowers. For example, sunflower are big deal at my house. We plant Russian Mammoth, Lemon Queen, and Autumn beauty for a colorful summer display. The Mexican Sunflower is small and could be a variable option for children. Don’t leave pumpkins off you list. Remember they do require lots of space though.

I plan to let my granddaughter color these preschool garden vegetable printables. So, grab a box of crayons and print these tomato, green beans, carrot and corn printables, and let your kids go to work too.

Last, stay tuned for our April Showers posts this month. We’ll be sharing more activities for kids, craft roundups and other ideas for those rainy days. You can download the preschool garden vegetable printables here. You may also like: Kids Gardening Crafts