Friendship Salad Activity for Back to School

Description

Start your school year off with this engaging Friendship Salad Back to School Activity. This fun activity will help you build a sense of classroom community and friendship within your Pre-K through 1st Grade Classroom. Students and teachers both love this packet!

(Optional) Pair it with The Fruit Salad Friend by Maria Dismondy for a literacy component!

 This Friendship Salad Packet Includes 

• Labels for your fruit cans, marshmallows, and yogurt
• *A Friendship Salad Recipe mini book
• “NO Rotten Bananas Allowed” sign to post on your classroom door or wall
• Text-to-Self Response Page
• Make your own Friendship Fruit Salad recipe response page
• Parent Letters explaining the project, checking for food allergies, and requesting ingredients to be sent in
• Friendship Salad Ingredient Posters for the classroom

 

⭐️ WHY Do the Friendship Salad Activity? ⭐️

This low prep, high engagement activity is one that kids will remember all year long. This community-building activity makes a fun first day of school activity as you begin talking about classroom rules, expectations, and creating a kind classroom.

Students practice important literacy skills while working together to make a healthy and delicious snack. This packet would be great in Vacation Bible School or Sunday School as well.

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS LIKE YOU:

❤️ I loved this! It was my back-to-school and all-year bulletin board to build community and expectations. We read the book and made the salad. The students love anything you make in the classroom! It brought a meaningful discussion about how to treat each other and how not to be a “rotten banana”. (1st Grade Teacher)

❤️ This was a perfect learning experience in our unit about being a member of a community. It is one the students reflect on often. (Kindergarten Teacher)

❤️ This truly helps my students and I bond together and learn about friendship. I do it every year. The parents love it, too!! (Kindergarten Teacher)