Round Bundle of Harvest Vegetables to Color

A round bundle of vegetables fills the page, packed tightly so the shapes overlap. You can spot eggplants with leafy caps, bell peppers, round tomatoes, striped onions with long stalks, ridged cucumbers, and broccoli florets covered in tiny dots. Wedges of sliced tomato or watermelon show seeds in the middle. Three carrots have small smiling faces, and two of them peek out from behind the other vegetables with leafy tops. The line work is clean and the shapes are fairly large, so it suits kids who are learning to stay inside the lines. Try coloring each vegetable type in its own real-life shade, then talk about which ones might show up on a Thanksgiving table. Older kids can use the dots on the broccoli for stippling and shading practice. It also works well as a table activity while dinner is being cooked.