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Vegetable Stand Pretend Play

By Shaunna Evans 18 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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It has been a long time since we’ve shared a theme series, and I still have a couple to share from last year. Now that we are getting back into our school routine I am going to pick up where we left off after our U is for Underground Animals series.

For the letter V we learned all about vegetables. To kick off the week I set up an invitation to play with vegetables. The kids were SO excited to discover this on Monday morning. They chose to spend almost all of their free time playing with this vegetable stand throughout the week.

V is for Vegetables Invitation to Play

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To set up the stand I gathered a fresh produce, a large cardboard box, a table cloth, one of our toy bin organizers, and a few store related accessories we had around the house.

The real novelty here was the fresh produce. The kids were so excited to have real food to touch and play with, and it led to so many wonderful conversations and discoveries about vegetables throughout the week. As we cooked and prepared snacks we also selected produce from the vegetable stand so that it did not go to waste.

Vegetable Stand Pretend Play for Kids...use real produce so kids can explore and investigate the different vegetables

With a little supervision, this was an activity that the toddlers and preschoolers could enjoy together. Little Buddy and Big Buddy loved to shop and feel the vegetables.

Vegetable Stand Preschool Activity

Lovey took her job as store clerk very seriously. She was quite professional and loved helping her customers choose the right vegetables.

Vegetable Stand Pretend Play

Next week I’ll be back to share some of the learning activities we did to go along with our vegetable stand.

 

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Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) Vegetable Emergent Reader (2 versions)
2) Syllable Sorting Activity
3) Vegetable Photos (color and B/W)
4) Vegetable Letter Puzzles (color and B/W)
5) Vegetable Stand Pretend Play Signs
6) Vegetable Number Cards (Color and B/W)
7) Shopping for Vegetables Counting Game
8) Vegetable Cards with and without labels (color and B/W)
9) Vegetable Sink or Float Predictions and Results Recording Sheets (color and B/W)
10) Vegetable Taste Test Recording Sheets (color and B/W)
11) Design a Vegetable Garden Planning Sheet (2 versions)

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Home Preschool Vegetable Theme Lesson Plans

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  1. Mary Catherine

    August 23, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    LOVE this, Shauna!! I’m going to try this out with my preschoolers later on this school year. I’m featuring you veggie stand at Share It Saturday tomorrow. 🙂

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    • Shaunna

      August 25, 2013 at 2:41 pm

      Oooh, I can’t wait to hear about it. I would really like to try this in a diverse class and invite the kids to bring in a favorite vegetable. I bet it could be a great cultural activity as well as science, literacy, and math! Some days I miss the classroom 😉

      Reply
  2. Allison

    August 23, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    I love this – I’ll be featuring it on The Sunday Showcase this weekend. Thank you for linking up!

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    • Shaunna

      August 25, 2013 at 2:41 pm

      Thanks so much for the feature, Allison!

      Reply
  3. Jackie Higgins

    August 23, 2013 at 12:57 pm

    I love this. We are learning about colors this week. Vegetables of different colors would make a great addition to our theme, plus Grandpa has tons of fresh freebies in his garden for us! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

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    • Shaunna

      August 25, 2013 at 2:49 pm

      Oh, how fun to be able to choose the vegetables right from the garden! Have fun!

      Reply
  4. Kaysha

    August 22, 2013 at 8:07 am

    What a wonderful idea! I never would have thought to use real vegetables!

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    • Shaunna

      August 25, 2013 at 3:08 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Jackie

    August 17, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    I love that you had them exploring real produce! The hooligans would absolutely love this!

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    • Shaunna

      August 17, 2013 at 8:42 pm

      Thanks, Jackie! I don’t think they would have been near as excited or engaged throughout the week if we had used our regular pretend play food. The real produce really was a great teaching tool. Hope you and the hooligans try it out some day.

      Reply
  6. Deborah

    August 16, 2013 at 8:12 pm

    This is wonderful!

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    • Shaunna

      August 17, 2013 at 8:46 pm

      Thanks, Deborah!

      Reply
  7. Jeanette Nyberg

    August 16, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    Wow, those vegetables look real 😉 I truly love that you didn’t just use fake vegetables. How novel!

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    • Shaunna

      August 17, 2013 at 8:50 pm

      lol! You’re funny, Jeanette. Isn’t it funny how sometimes the smallest changes to an ordinary activity can make a HUGE difference for the kids?

      Reply
  8. Kelly at Little Wonders' Days

    August 16, 2013 at 7:32 am

    I love that you used real veggies and then they picked what to have for snacks from them. Visiting from TGIF!

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    • Shaunna

      August 17, 2013 at 8:52 pm

      Thanks, Kelly! I love how it turned out to be the focus of our week and inspired us to test out a few new recipes.

      Reply
  9. Holly Giles

    August 15, 2013 at 10:35 am

    Great idea with fresh vegetables! The kids will remember what it is next time because they got to feel it! Thank you for sharing. Holly

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    • Shaunna

      August 17, 2013 at 8:58 pm

      Thanks, Holly! They really did make some connections and great observations during that week.

      Reply

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