10 apples– Mathshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxcLRxdCl0Y Read this and then print rows of apples. I apple, then a row of 2 apples all the way to 10. Can you match the number to the right quantity of apples?

Fruit salad– DT/PSEDMake a fruit salad – Do you know which fruits need peeling or chopping or coring. If you are careful an adult will let you chop them – you may need some help.

Where is the best place to keep the fruit salad until you eat it? Can you use a big spoon to share it into small bowls for your family? Which

fruits do you like best?

Balloon games– PEUse fruity coloured balloons to play these games with ‘apples’, ‘oranges’ and ‘strawberries’

Balloon balance, how far, how long?

Balloon tennis – how many passes? How far can you hit it?Balloon catch – how many times did you miss?

Bendy banana - EnglishListen to these poems. Choose a fruit and use a colour word and a taste word and a doing word to make a poem like this

Try different fruits and make an ‘I like… but I don’t like…’ poem like this one.

Make a veg- creature Clap out the syllables for fruit names –

A - pple, Ba - na - na

Make up a pattern and ‘play’ your fruity song.Perhaps you could ‘write’ the music by placing the real fruit (or pictures) in order then playing the song.

Blue banana – Music/Science/PSEDhttp://pupils.stlukesprimary.com/music.htmlFind the blue banana song and sing along. An adult can make foods in the wrong colours and see if you still want to eat them. Paint a banana blue (like the song), add green food colouring to mashed potato, add black colouring to milk. Try this on another family member and see if they like them.

Kebab patterns MathsCut up some fruit and use skewers or straws to thread on the fruit.

Can you make a repeating pattern or copy one an adult has made. Try to copy left to right.

Banana goes bad? -Science Can you use a cocktail stick to draw a picture on a banana skin?

What colour does your picture become?

Adults- Because the cocktail stick has bruised the skin, some of the banana’s cells become damaged. This allows oxygen from the air in to the cell, which causes a chemical reaction making it turn brown.

Famous fruit art –ArtFamous artists have painted pictures of fruit. Choose some of the pictures below and see if you can make them in real life.

Can you use the same colours to make a painting? Paint round shapes for the fruit (making anti-clockwise circles helps with writing skills)

Odd one out - MathsCan you spot the odd one out if you have 3 apples and a banana? What about 3 pears and an apple? Try trickier ones -an apple, a pear, a lime and an orange (one is a different colour). Explain which one is the odd one out & why? Parents – try having one facing a different direction or higher or lower than the others.

Have a go and keep in touch

If you have a go at any of these activities we would love to see what you do. Send a picture

or video to stlukes@stlukesprimary.com It may appear in our gallery on the website.

Have a look at http://pupils.stlukesprimary.com/gallery.html

Food, glorious food –fruit.