Fruit salad

Age group:
5-6 years
Food group:
Fruit and vegetables

Fruit salad is a refreshing dish you can make to suit everyone’s tastes. Whether you like bananas, pineapple and strawberries all in one bowl, or apple mixed with melon and grapes, fruit salads are a wonderful way to enjoy a mix of your favourite flavours. This recipe is great way to help 5-6-year-olds develop their cutting techniques by chopping up the ingredients.

This toolkit contains a recipe, along with ideas about how you could include it in your lesson. Take a look at the recipe below and refer to it alongside the teaching resources. 

The cooking skills and recipes have been developed in collaboration with the British Nutritional Foundation.

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Available Teaching materials

Art

Art

Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination 

  • Make close observational drawings linked to the science activity above, using magnifying glasses to focus on the detail. Extend by using pen and ink, chalks or pastels. 
  • Make fruits for use in role play from clay, modelling dough, junk modelling or paint.
  • Print with fruit. Use the textures of the skins or cut them in half, dip in paint and stamp.

Curriculum

WELSH: Mix shape, arrange and combine materials to create their own images and objects, communicate and express their ideas, feelings and memories creatively. 

SCOTLAND: Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design

NORTHERN IRELAND: From observing and recording first hand experiences and responding to memory and imagination to being able to collect, examine, select and use resource material to contribute to the development of ideas  

Equipment

  • Colander

  • Chopping board

  • Knife

  • Bowl

  • Spoon

  • Measuring spoons

Steps

  • Step 1

    Wash the strawberries and grapes.

  • Step 2

    Step 2

    Peel the satsumas and separate into segments.

  • Step 3

    Step 3

    Pull the stalks from the strawberries.

  • Step 4

    Step 4

    Halve each strawberry. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 5

    Pull the grapes off the stalks.

  • Step 6

    Step 6

    Peel the bananas and carefully slice into small pieces. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 7

    Place all of the fruit in a bowl and mix together.

  • Step 8

    Step 8

    Add the orange juice.

Ingredients

Makes:
4
5
strawberries
8
seedless red grapes
8
seedless white grapes
2
satsumas
2
bananas
2 x 15ml spoons
orange juice

Handy Hint(s)

Try using different types of fruit, such as peeled and sliced kiwi, chunks of fresh mango or canned pineapple pieces.

Use other types of fruit juice instead of orange juice.

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Recipe:

Fruit salad

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