The Carrot Seed Preschool Activities

Enrichment Activities

Crunchy Carrot Connections

• 1Carrot Top Painting
  
  Use the tops of fresh carrots to dip and paint.
• 2Carrot Graph
  
  Have children taste carrots. Graph who liked and disliked them.
  
  Serve carrots crunchy as well as cooked. Graph who liked them crunchy or cooked.
• 3The Life Cycle of a Carrot
  
  Research a carrot life cycle. Discuss the parts of a carrot and how they grow.
  
  What does the carrot plant need to grow? Sunlight, water, and soil.
• 4Carrots in the Kitchen
  
  How else can you prepare carrots? Carrot strips, carrot slices, shredded carrots, boiled carrots, and mashed carrots.
• 5Above and Below
  
  Use pictures of growing carrots to discuss the concepts of above and below.
• 6Play-doh
  
  Have students make carrots from orange play-doh.
• 7Move the Carrot
  
  Have students practice using a wheelbarrow. Students place blocks into the wheelbarrow and move them across the room/playground.
  
  Note: Large wheelbarrows are difficult for children to use. A small adult-size wheelbarrow should be manageable for elementary school children.
• 8Reenactment
  
  Have students act out the different charactersof the story as you read the story aloud.
  
  Props: Watering can, wheelbarrow, pretend carrot.
• 9Prediction
  
  Stop reading before the end of the story. Ask students to predict the ending.