Fruit Kebabs

Reception read the story of Handa’s Surprise. They named all the animals but hadn’t heard of some of the fruits so they tried them. They prepared them for the fruit kebabs (lots of peeling, slicing and even some scraping). They were delicious! Mangoes and pineapples were their favourites. This made them curious about lots of other things … Why do fruits have different smells? Which foods are healthiest? Why do these fruits grow in Africa? Is it tricky to balance a basket on your head? Lots of interesting ideas to follow up in our play, alongside African drumming, call and response singing, making traditional necklaces, building pyramids and skyscrapers and learning some Swahili.