Art’s Explorer # 7: Grocery Shopping with a Twist

Gorcery shopping is something all of us and our families do every week. Most of us can spend up to an hour visting the grocery store looking for food to buy for weeks breakfast, lunches, dinners and snacks. With the amount of time we spend in the gorcery none of us take the time to look outside the box and see the unqiueness in different foods. Foods come in different sizes, shapes, textures, colours and even taste.

    I love going to the grocery and buying food especially fruits. I have tons of fruits I love to eat as list below. The great thing about fruits is that they can be made into many different forms including blending fruit into a variety of smoothies, squeezing fruit into juice and lastly cutting up the fruit and making it into a nice healthy salad. Fruits come in different sizes, shape, texture and even colours. No fruit looks or even taste exactly the same. For instances apples come in a variety of sizes and colours such as yellow, green and red. I have tasted all and I definitely have a preference on which apple I’d rather buy and enjoy which are green apples (granny-smith apples).

Art Word of the Week: Shape

    Shape refers to the outside form of an object (Schirrmacher, & Fox, 2009, P 140). A shape has its own qualities and personalities some of the characteristics include hard, soft, big, small, large, solid, heavy and geometrical shapes including circle, square and triangle (Schirrmacher, & Fox, 2009, P 140).  I chose this word because fruits come in all different shapes, sizes etc. 

                     Below I have listed 15 favourite fruits that I enjoy eating Jà

Favourite Fruits:

v  Strawberries

v  Raspberries

v  Blackberries

v  Blueberries

v  Watermelon

v  Pear

v  Grapes

v  Banana

v  Oranges

v  Cantaloupe

v  Melon

v  Pineapple

v  Kiwi

v  Apples

v  Pomegranate  

                     Three Sketches: Strawberry, Watermelon & Pear:

    This art’s explorer can relate to children it is a great way for children to learn and recognize their fruits. This can be a great start to help children learn the different fruits that are in our grocery stores. Here children can also see that fruits come in different sizes, colours and even taste different. Educators can make a creative activity such as making a part of the classroom into a grocery store and matching the fruits with their names and descriptions. They could also bring in the real fruit and allow children to analyse by tasting feeling and through observing.

  Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J., E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.