I was reminded of this set when I made the berries a few weeks ago. It doesn’t look like I ever blogged it though!
I now have three sets of food in the same envelope–this one, the berries, and the Very Hungry Caterpillar fruit. They overlap in different ways so it’s handy to have them all together!
This is a rhyme that I am sure I found online somewhere, but originally came from an old teachers’ resource book by Marlene and Robert McCracken called Fall. The poem as it appears in their book is:
ORANGE as a carrot,
YELLOW as a pear,
PURPLE as a plum,
BROWN as a bear,
GREEN as the grass,
BLUE as the sky,
BLACK as a witch’s hat,
RED as cherry pie.
I liked the simplicity of it but wanted to avoid a reference to witches. I also wanted to use it for a food storytime, too, so once I decided to adapt the witch’s hat line, I went ahead and adapted all the colors to match to foods:
Orange as a carrot,
Red as a cherry,
Yellow as a pear,
Blue as a berry,
Pink as a lollipop,
Purple as a plum,
Green as an apple,
And now we’re all done.
Here’s the pieces I made to go with:
The blueberry and the cherries are borrowed from the berries set, and the plum is borrowed from the Very Hungry Caterpillar set. I just duplicated the green pear and red apple from the VHC set to be a yellow pear and a green apple for this rhyme. Now I have a good set of foods to use in lots of different ways!
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