B is for Banana

Here are some additional Banana activities.

• Read: Baxter The Banana by Sean Sullivan 
• A friend gave me this book YEARS ago, before I was even married and had kids, but I’ve kept it around and it is perfect for banana preschool. I CANT find it anywhere online….but it’s a book about a green banana that wants to be yellow. Then after awhile, he turns yellow like all the other bananas. (see activity below)

• Green and Yellow Bananas (this goes along with Baxter the Banana board book)
             ***This is a cutting, sorting and gluing project
1. I drew some banana shapes on green paper and yellow paper (you could also draw them on white paper and have your preschooler color them!)
2. Practicing cutting skills and cut out all the bananas
• Sort them by color, and if you drew them different sizes, sort them by size too!
3. Glue the sorted bananas on another piece of paper, divided in the middle – Green and Yellow.

• Banana counting and matching
1. Print this banana worksheet and have your preschooler trace all the B’s
2. I made these banana stickers on with my Silhouette, designed just for this project, or you can buy these banana stickers.
3. Match the 1 banana stickers to the 1 banana on their worksheet, cover up a B with it. Keep going until all the B’s are covered with the matching number of bananas in their column.

• Banana Cutting
1. Get a banana and a plastic knife (or a butter knife if you trust your preschooler!) and let them practice cutting a banana into slices.

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