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Fruits Games for Preschoolers

Preschool children can learn about counting, colors and patterns by playing games with fruit. Incorporating fruit into games is a fun way to teach children about the healthy snack. You can use real fruit, fake fruit or pictures of fruit to create a variety of games for your preschool class. Awarding the game winners with an apple, orange, banana or any other fruit can entice the young children to try their best.

Bowling Games
- Place Styrofoam cups on the ground in a pyramid shape form, like in bowling. Use an orange to roll at the cups to knock them down. The preschooler who knocks down the most pins in two rolls wins the game. Help the preschoolers learn how to count by having them add the amount of cups they knock down in each roll. For a variation, use pineapples as bowling pins and coconuts as the bowling balls.
Memory Games
- Print several pictures of fruits (two of each fruit) and laminate each picture. Place the cards face down on a table and have the preschoolers play a game of memory. The child who finds the most pairs wins the game. Another idea for a memory game is to put several pieces of fruit on a tray. Show the preschoolers the tray and tell them to look at all the fruit. Have them close their eyes and remove one piece of fruit from the tray. After they open their eyes, the first child to say what piece of fruit is missing wins a small prize.
Sorting Games
- Mix several pieces of fruit in a large bucket and place other smaller buckets around the large bucket. Have the children take turns sorting the fruit by color or type. Award a small prize to each preschooler who correctly separates the fruit. For another sorting game, mix several vegetables in with the fruits and have the children sorts out all of the fruits. Each preschooler who can identify all the fruits wins a small prize.
Tossing Games
- Have the children try to toss pieces of fruit into plastic buckets to earn points. Draw a picture of a fruit on a bucket. For example, draw an apple on a red bucket and have the children try to toss all the apples into that bucket. You can also just have the children try to toss the fruit in the corresponding colored bucket. Line up a purple, orange and red bucket. Children must toss purple grapes into the purple bucket, oranges into the orange bucket, and apples into the red bucket. To make the game more difficult, write the name of the fruit on white buckets and have the children try to toss the fruit into the correct bucket.

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