Grocery Shopping with a Berry Good Twist!

Berries

For this blog I decided to focus on berries, because they're (mostly) super sweet, colourful and yummy. There are a wide variety of Berries available to us, made up of a wide assortment of colours, shapes, and sizes. Berries most often have tiny little seeds located inside the fruit. 

There are Berries everywhere!

Just the Bare-Berries Necessities

Blueberries

Strawberries

Blackberries

Raspberries

Cloudberry

Boysenberry

Marionberries

Tayberries

Gooseberries

Reducurrants

Blackcurrant

Cranberries

Huckleberries

Elderberries

Goji berries

Mulberries

Acai berres

Bearberries

Holy Berry! There’s Berries in there!

Milkshakes: strawberry, strawberry banana

Smoothies: strawberry, fruit

Drinks: Strawberry daiquiris,

Jams: blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, wildberry

Muffins à Blueberries, Apple Rasberries

Pies: Strawberry Rhubarb, blueberry, rasberry

Pancakes

Strawberry Crepes

Strawberry Shortbread

Strawberry cheesecakes

Rose

Strawberry Salads

Rasberry Vinagrette

My Sketches:

 /  Shape \

I chose to sketch these particular berries because of their unique shape. In Art and Creative Development for Young Children, Schirrmacher and Fox state that "shape is an appropriate criterion for critquing two dimensional art that has length and width" (2009). Shape is created by connecting lines. The berries that I chose to sketch could be characterized as realistic, clearly defined, small and little, angular, complex, precise and proportional (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009). I also chose them because I wanted to sketch berries that I had never heard of or seen before. The Tayberry has a very similar shape to a raspberry, looking very oval. The cloudberry has a shape and look very similar to that of a flower. The gooseberry's have a shape that is similar to a coconut, very round.  

Talking about shape, colour, patterns etc. is important in the Early Childhood Education classroom because it helps children to see the connection between art and their everyday life. Because the curriculum often places a strong focus on language and math, this helps children to understand that art is something that is a part of everyday life, not just a leisure activity to be done in spare time. 

Picture Retrieved From:

Assorted Berries: www.thehealthyjunky.wordpress.com

Raspberry Heart: www.lemonmeringue.com

Strawberry Salad: www.justsimplycook.blogspot.com

References:

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^th Ed.).Belmont, CA: Delmar.