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Spring Craft with Carrots

April 20, 2014 by Sheryl Cooper

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Painting with carrots is a fun spring craft during a gardening theme. We display books about carrots in various areas of the classroom, learn how carrots grow in the ground, taste carrots, and then paint with carrot tops. This ties in beautifully with our spring activities! We add some fine motor by peeling the carrots and we use our sense of taste when we eat them. Later, we plant carrot seeds and add them to our garden.
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Spring Craft with Carrots
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The invitation:

Each day our preschoolers draw a line beside their name on a clipboard, or write part or all of their name. This happens as they arrive each morning. On this table we display hints of what we will learn that day.

Spring Craft with Carrots

Getting ready for this activity:

Before starting our spring craft with carrots, we read “The Carrot Seed” and talked about how carrots grow in the ground. We then invited the preschoolers to grate carrots at our fine motor table. We cut them and served them with our snack.

Spring Craft with Carrots
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Spring Craft with Carrots
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What you will need for this carrot craft:

  • Carrots, with their tops
  • Orange tempera paint
  • Orange construction paper, cut into carrot shapes
  • Green construction paper, cut in rectangles to make the carrot tops. While a teacher could cut snips into these, we had our preschoolers do it prior to painting the carrots.
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Spring Craft with Carrots
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Preparing this craft:

  • Cut the orange construction paper into carrot shapes.
  • Pour the orange paint into containers and place the carrot tops on top.
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Spring Craft with Carrots
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The Activity:

Have the preschoolers dip the carrot tops into the paint and then press onto the orange paper.

 

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Spring Craft with Carrots
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Spring Craft with Carrots
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Finishing this activity:

Add the green “fringed” paper to the top of the painted paper carrot.

Spring Craft with Carrots
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Additions to this spring activity:

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More spring gardening activities:

 
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  • Broccoli Painting (No Time for Flash Cards)
  • 50+ Flower and Garden Activities for Kids (Fun a Day)

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Angie

    April 21, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    I actually pinned this on Pinterest last night when I saw it. I love this idea!

  2. Anonymous

    April 21, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    I love idea of the sneak preview as they enter the class room. Are there other garden books you read as well? I would love to start this with my daughter as we are about to start our container garden.

    Thanks,
    Melissa

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