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Where Does It Grow? Sorting Game
Here's one to try together!
Draw yummy foods on paper scraps, then sort them into piles by where they grow. Dig deep, look up high, or follow the vine!
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Safety first
- Food allergy mention: peanut is one of the foods named, though only as a drawing or word, not actual food
- Crayons and paper scraps could be a mouth-placement risk for very young children
What you need
- Paper, 10 scraps
- Crayons or markers, a few
How to do it
Grown-up prep: Tear or cut about 10 paper scraps and grab some crayons. Pick a flat spot for four piles. You can make the cards ahead of time for a waiting room.
- Pick a food and draw it on a paper scrap.
- Keep going until you have 10 food cards.
- Set up four piles: underground, tree, vine, and bush or plant.
- Say the pile names out loud and act each one out.
- Shuffle your cards and flip one over. Ask: Where do you think this food grows?
- Put the card in the pile where you think it grows.
- Sort all the cards the same way. Ask: Which pile has the most cards so far?
- Check your answers together, one pile at a time.
- Now show a friend your piles, or draw more foods! What will you add next? Ask: Which new food do you want to find out about?
Play it again
- Mystery card: hold a card behind your back and give clues until someone guesses where it grows.
- Beat the timer: sort all 10 cards before a song ends, then check your answers.
- New foods: draw 10 brand new foods and see which pile grows the biggest.
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