Preschool Lesson on Plants We Eat
Oh the weather outside is frightful!
In Calgary anyways. 
It snowed over the weekend! Hopefully it’s nicer wherever you are.
But my calendar tells me it’s spring, and that’s got my green thumb itching to grow something!
I’ve settled for talking to my preschool class about plants we eat.
Here is the lesson we did today. This lesson will help your preschoolers learn the parts of a plant, and where the food we eat really comes from.
What You Need:
Note: You can prepare materials on your own beforehand, or enlist your preschool child to help. It’s good practice for cutting with scissors, and could be a fun activity to do together if you have time!
5 Cardboard squares - I use 6″ squares
Pictures of vegetables cut from magazines or newspapers
Colored yarn or cord
A picture of a plant that shows the roots, stem, leaves, seeds and flowers. You can draw one (or your child can). This should be larger than your pieces of cardboard and other picture you found.
What You Do:
Place the picture of plant on a table.
Place a piece of cardboard on either side of the flower
Place the remaining 3 cardboard pieces on the top of the plant picture.
Connect the pieces of cardboard to the flower picture with the pieces of string: Attach one piece to the root, one to a leaf, one to the stem, one to the flower, one to the seeds.
Now, look at the vegetable pictures you cut out of magazines. What part of the plant did they come from? Paste the pictures on the appropriate piece of cardboard.
Here are some examples:
Flowers we eat: cauliflower, broccoli
Stems we eat: celery, chives
Leaves we eat: spinach, chard, lettuce
Roots we eat: radish, carrot, beets
Seeds we eat: corn, nuts
Conclusion: Some of our food comes from different parts of plants.
