Fruit salad

Age group:
5-6 years
Food group:
Fruit and vegetables

Fruit salad is a refreshing dish you can make to suit everyone’s tastes. Whether you like bananas, pineapple and strawberries all in one bowl, or apple mixed with melon and grapes, fruit salads are a wonderful way to enjoy a mix of your favourite flavours. This recipe is great way to help 5-6-year-olds develop their cutting techniques by chopping up the ingredients.

This toolkit contains a recipe, along with ideas about how you could include it in your lesson. Take a look at the recipe below and refer to it alongside the teaching resources. 

The cooking skills and recipes have been developed in collaboration with the British Nutritional Foundation.

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Science

Working scientifically

Observe closely using simple equipment e.g. magnifying glass

Arrange for the children to work with real samples of fruit. If possible choose unusual fruits such as pomegranate, guava and star fruit.

  • Talk about how important it is in science to look very carefully at objects.
  • Together or in groups, ask the children to look carefully and describe the look, smell and feel of the outside of the fruit. Encourage them to use all their senses.
  • Under supervision, cut the fruit open and again encourage them to look carefully with a magnifying glass and again to use their senses.
  • Ensure that you get children to record their findings – e.g. take photographs, paint or draw, record their descriptions using simple recording devices, write simple sentences or create word banks of exciting vocabulary.

Curriculum

WALES: They ask and answer a range of questions, observe, collect and record information in a variety of ways 

SCOTLAND: Observe, collect, measure and record evidence

NORTHERN IRELAND: Exploring and examining photographs, objects and other items

Equipment

  • Colander

  • Chopping board

  • Knife

  • Bowl

  • Spoon

  • Measuring spoons

Steps

  • Step 1

    Wash the strawberries and grapes.

  • Step 2

    Step 2

    Peel the satsumas and separate into segments.

  • Step 3

    Step 3

    Pull the stalks from the strawberries.

  • Step 4

    Step 4

    Halve each strawberry. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 5

    Pull the grapes off the stalks.

  • Step 6

    Step 6

    Peel the bananas and carefully slice into small pieces. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 7

    Place all of the fruit in a bowl and mix together.

  • Step 8

    Step 8

    Add the orange juice.

Ingredients

Makes:
4
5
strawberries
8
seedless red grapes
8
seedless white grapes
2
satsumas
2
bananas
2 x 15ml spoons
orange juice

Handy Hint(s)

Try using different types of fruit, such as peeled and sliced kiwi, chunks of fresh mango or canned pineapple pieces.

Use other types of fruit juice instead of orange juice.

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Recipe:

Fruit salad

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