Guess what a fruit looks like inside, draw your guess on the printable card, then cut the real one open and compare. Kitchen science that ends in a tasting plate.
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My daughter refused to try a kiwi for two years. Then we cut one open as an experiment rather than a meal, and she ate three.
That is the whole trick of this basket: the food is a puzzle first and a snack second. Guessing what is inside makes children curious rather than suspicious.
We do it with whatever is in the fruit bowl, and the drawings go on the fridge.
Print both pages and cut them into nine photo cards and nine drawing cards, or keep the pages whole.
Put one whole fruit or vegetable on the table. Ask your child what they think is inside — the colour, the seeds, the pattern.
Let them draw their guess inside the dotted circle on the matching card, before anything is cut.
Now cut the real one open, place the halves next to the card, and compare. Was there a star inside the apple? How many seeds in the pepper?
Count the seeds together, look at them with a magnifying glass, and talk about which ones we eat and which we do not.
Repeat with the next item. Four or five is plenty for one session.
Arrange all the halves and slices on a plate as a tasting board with the cards tucked beside them, and eat the experiment.
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Cut an apple across its middle instead of top to bottom to reveal the star of seeds — it gets a gasp every time. Keep a card for anything unusual you bring home: star fruit, pomegranate, fennel, passion fruit.
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