Choose what to grow in your garden, feed a picky child, and make the whole thing fun with a paper fortune “cootie catcher.”
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What’s your favorite vegetable? Choose what to grow in your garden, feed a picky child, and make the whole thing fun with this cute and clever pick-a-veggie printable fortune game. Encourage your kids to eat a rainbow and get the whole family trying something new.
With backyard gardens, farmer’s markets, and even the rainbow in the produce aisle, summertime is full of vegetables.
When I started making this paper fortune game, I was thinking about my backyard garden. We just planted herbs this year, but I spent a lot of time thinking about which vegetables I wanted to plant. Using a paper fortune to pick vegetables for the garden might be fun.
If your kids are like mine, they have a narrow list of vegetables they’re willing to eat. (If I’m being honest, I have a few that I don’t want to eat either.)
Helping me grow them in the garden helps, but I definitely don’t have the time or space to grow everything we eat. When they were younger, helping me choose vegetables at the grocery store and then cook them at home also encouraged them to try more.
For little kids, the trick to getting them to do anything is really making it a game.
Laundry becomes fun when you can throw it across the room into the basket. Picking up your toys becomes fun when you get to sort them into special containers. Eating vegetables is fun when they’re the prize at the end of the game.
Fair warning: This doesn’t always work. But if you give your child this printable pick-a-veggie fortune, I’ll bet that they will be willing to at least try the vegetables that they picked themselves.
Pick-a-veggie printable fortune
In case you need a refresher on how to fold a paper fortune, I made a video tutorial.
The printable fits on an 8.5×11-inch page. Each section is labeled with colors and under each color are four vegetables that match. I printed mine on card stock, but I think regular printer paper might be easier to fold and get the creases really neat.
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