Fruit Week: Lemons

We started off our fruit week with lemons, but before we did Iasked Jack if he could list as manyfruits as he could think of. He started off with pineapples and apples, paused for a minute and then listed grapefuits. I tried to help him out by mentioning colors like red, which led him to blood...ok,true - blood is red, but definitely not a fruit. I then asked about yellow, so he said bananas; I tried to lead him to lemons asking what we make lemonade with, but no luck. So...we went downstairs to read our first book about fruit: The Red Lemon. Love this book - very cute! It's about a lemon farmer (Farmer McPhee) who unhappily finds a red lemon growing on his lemon tree. This led us to our first art project...

Once the kids finished their apple trees, they worked on gluing yellow pieces of construction paper to lemon printouts while I dusted off and figured out how to work my juicer/kitchenaid that has been sitting in our cabinet since we got married nearly 5 years ago. Finally figured it out, and we were off to make lemonade! So fun, and a great lesson for Jack who had no idea lemonade comes from lemons!! Both kids loved smelling the lemons, using the juicer and mixing the ingredients (ie lemon juice, water and sugar).

The lemonade actually turned out delicious - Jack wasted no time giving it a taste test (and a thumbs up!).