Unplug Your Kids-Fruit

This weeks theme for Unplug Your Kids was Fruit. After last weeks failed attempt I was bound and determined to be successful. So, we did two projects.

The first one was a matching game with fresh fruit and dried fruit. I used muffin tins and put the fresh fruit on one side and the dried fruit on the other side. I explained to the boys that when you take the water out of the fresh fruit you dry it and it ends up like the dried fruit. So then I had them match up the dried fruit to what it used to be. They did really well. I only had to help them once (with the raisens). We had grapes/raisens, bananas, strawberries, apples, and pineapples. After the game they enjoyed the food for a snack.







Our second project was butterfly feeders (thanks Unplugged Mom for this inspiration). I let the boys get busy cutting strawberries (butterflies are supposed to be attracted to red) and they were really excited about using knives. I never let them use knives and I think my sweet husband was utterly appauled when he found out. We also put out some old plums and oranges. From what I read several internet sites the more rotted and nasty the fruit the better, so that's what we went with: nasty old plums, strawberries and oranges.

We hung the strawberries from a latern over a bush that I see a lot over butterflies hovering around.
I placed the plate of plums and oranges in the small bush.
We watched and watched and only saw one small yellow butterfly on the orange. I was surprised because we see butterflies in the backyard ALL the time. HMMMM....oh well, the boys had a lot of fun with the project anyway.