Fruit and Vegetables – Healthy Eating

Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2

In our fruit and vegetable art lessons in the K-2 category, students will create a bright and textured pineapple using finger printing and painting techniques. They will learn colour mixing and use contrast and layering to create texture. Students will learn about texture, shape, colour and balance as they create a wonderfully vibrant artwork.   

Students will discover how to represent bright coloured strawberries and watermelon slices in the ink drawing project. They will use a range of mixed media—from drawing ink and paint to oil pastels. Students will learn about scale and proportion and composition as they arrange their fruit to create a dynamic artwork.  

In the fun super sandwich project, kids will use a range of coloured papers and various drawing and collaging techniques to re-create a giant stacked sandwich. This lesson will teach students all about colour and texture and would be a great tie in with the children’s book, Sam’s Sandwich by David Pelham. 

Grade 3 and 4

Fruit and Vegetable art lessons in the grade 3-4 year category will have students learning about radial symmetry with a colourful citrus fruit drawing. They will use a combination of oil pastel and watercolour paint to create a finished artwork that looks bright, fresh and juicy! Students will discuss the importance of colour mixing and attention to detail as they recreate the intricate patterns within the fruit slices.   

Students will have fun creating a series of drawings as they eat their way through an apple, right to the core in the eat an apple lesson plan. They will learn realistic drawing techniques and will look at how to use colour and texture to create representational art.   

In the vegetable garden painting, students will look below the soil surface to create their own cross section of a garden full of bright, colourful veggies. Students can focus on their favourite vegetables and learn how to use shape, colour and texture to bring these to life in their artwork. They will learn to use a mix of tempera paint and oil pastel to enhance the realistic appearance of their artwork. Students can add their own special touch with earthworms and other objects beneath the surface of the soil of this garden delight! 

Grade 5 and 6

In the Kiwi Fruit Macro Painting, students will zoom in on the details in this intricate fruit. They will create a cross section artwork to represent the beautiful shapes and patterns in the centre of a kiwi fruit. Students will use a combination of sketching, painting with acrylic, and adding details with paint pens to bring this mixed media artwork to life. This project will teach students to focus on detail and use their observational skills to create a tantalizingly realistic painting.  

The pomegranate mixed media project will allow students to work on their sketching techniques by drawing a realistic representation of a pomegranate. In creating this detailed artwork students will learn to select and mix appropriate colours, with the use of tonal variations, to create the appearance of form in the fruit. By the end of the project, students will have a luscious pomegranate, which will look good enough to eat!