B is for Berries

• Exploring Berries
1. Buy different kinds of berries at the store (or pick them if you have that ability near you). We used Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, and Huckleberries. 
2. Explore the berries through the 5 senses
• Sight – what color are they, what shape are they, are they big or smal
• Hear – Say the name of the berry. When you say “berry” in the name (ie: StrawBERRY) say it loud or clap.
• Smell – Smell it. Does it smell good or yucky
• Touch – is it bumpy, smooth, rough, slimy, soft, etc.
• Taste! – is it sour, sweet, salty, etc.

• Pom pom Berries
1. Using craft pom poms (we used blue, pink and black, big and small sizes) put them in a pile on the table, thrown out on the floor, in a sensory bin, or on a piece of green paper to look like a bush.
2. Have your preschooler “pick” the berries and sort them by color. We put them on matching colored paper.
3. Then sort by size for each color.

• Water bead Berries
1. Sensory bins are always a win, even if you don’t put anything else in but water beads! Again I used black, blue and pink (and clear) water beads.
2. They then sorted by color and played with them in the water.
• I like water beads for this one because they are round and small like a lot of berries.

• Berry Math
1. Pick a color (or many colors) of playdoh to make “berries” – small round balls of playdoh.
2. Cut out a piece of green paper, felt, foam, etc to resemble a bush.
3. Berry Math – (Berry picking [subtration] or berry growing [addition])
• Put all the berries on the bush and roll a die/dice.
• Count the dots and “pick” that many berries.
• Repeat until all the berries are picked.
• Roll the die/dice again.
• Count the dots and add that many berries to the bush (they’re growing).
• Repeat until all the berries you made have grown.

• Cheerio Box Blueberry activities
1. Cheerios had a perfect activity on the back of their Blueberry Cheerio's box and I saved it for today. They had:
• Blueberry memory match
• Berry Rhyming questions

**For more BERRY inspired preschool activities, click HERE**