Week 8 of Nutrition Expedition: Creepy Carrots!
October 27-31, 2014
Creepy Carrots!
Creepy carrots are creeping everywhere! We had so much creepy fun this week in Nutrition Expedition! After doing some Animal Aerobics, I read the book Creepy Carrots!, by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown. It's a funny story about a rabbit named Jasper who enjoys picking and eating carrots from a field near his home. One day, he begins to get the feeling that the carrots are following him, and are out to get him. Ultimately, he builds an impenetrable wall around the carrot patch to keep them in, and we learn in the end that was the carrots' goal: to keep Jasper Rabbit out! The children absolutely LOVED this story, and they have been begging me all week to "read it again"!
After finishing the story, I took the children to the Rec Room, where there were "creepy carrots" hiding (I planted large carrots in gift bags with glow bracelets tied to them all around the Rec Room). With the lights off, they had to find a glowing creepy carrot to take with them for snack time! They really enjoyed eating them up!
The toddlers had fun reading the book Where is Baby's Pumpkin?, by Karen Katz. Then they had to find mini gourds hiding around the Rec Room! The infants also enjoyed the book, and had fun playing "Peek-a-Boo Pumpkin".
Check out the pictures of all the creepy fun:
