Seven Days Creation Fruit Salad
Kitchen/Cooking Workshop Idea
Why - a fun way to remember what happened on each of 7 days.
Here's a suggested list of fruit that 'kind' of represent the 7 days. Feel free to brainstorm and come up with your own list of fruits.
Day 1. Let there be light/light in the darkness -- Blackberries.
Day 2. Seas and water -- Watermelon
Day 3. Fruit and trees -- Apple
Day 4. Stars and sun -- Star fruit
Day 5. Creatures, birds and fish -- Kiwi fruit
Day 6. Humans -- Mango. (For those like me whose feminist side bristles a little at this, have fun with the kids by creating new names for the fruit like, Hu-mango, or Man-go and Wo-mango, Boy-go and Girl-go, Baby-go.)
Day 7. Rest. How about strawberries. They seem to be resting under a shady canopy of leaves when you go out to pick them in the field!
Describe and taste each fruit and draw a connection to the Day of Creation and something fun and important to remember about it.
For example, an Apple has seeds. God's design is for things to grow and replace themselves. People do that too! What good things can you grow and share about God?
You can add a topping to each student's bowl of fruit. What is the "topping" in the Creation Story? It's not in one of the days, but rather, it's God's loving presence throughout Creation and continuing in our lives.
You can also add or substitute candies, like "gummy bears and fish" in the Day 5 layer.
