Learning Spanish Fruits With the Wiggles: Fruit Salad
If you have a preschooler, you surely know all about The Wiggles. This wildly famous kiddie band from Australia became an obsession for one of my boys. I remember the magical moment when it all began. I innocently popped in a Wiggles video for my then 11 month old son. He went crazy dancing and bouncing around. Life as we knew it became, well . . . wiggly!
From that day forward, our family lived and breathed The Wiggles. We had two Wiggles-themed birthday parties, a vast DVD collection, Wiggles pajamas, pillows, guitars . . . you name it! I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but I even saw Anthony, Murray, Jeff, and Greg in my dreams. (Sorry, Sam, but that was before your time.) Wiggles songs played in my house and in my head continually for close to three years. The Wiggles are awesome, but I must admit it was a relief when my second-born showed no interest. Mommy is slowly regaining mental health!
Still, I wish I had stumbled on this Spanish version of the Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad song a couple of years ago. Check out the Mariachi Wiggles singing “Ensalada de Fruta Fresca.”
If you have a Wiggles fan in the house, use this as a springboard for learning Spanish fruits. Here are some of the vocabulary words from the song:
- ensalada de fruta fresca – fresh fruit salad
- las bananas – bananas
- las uvas – grapes
- las manzanas – apples
- los melones – melons
And here are a few more:
- las fresas – strawberries
- las naranjas – oranges
- las frambuesas – raspberries
Teach the names of the fruits using plastic play food. Line them up, then listen to the song with your children as they touch the toy when they hear it on the video. Create picture flashcards and play a variety of Foreign Language Vocabulary Games, like tic-tac-toe and concentration.
Next, isolate some of the verbs from the Fruit Salad song and get ready to act them out using Total Physical Response (TPR). Incorporating the kinesthetic aspect is powerful.
- pela – peel
- corta – cut
- come – eat
Act out gestures with the Wiggles song and play charades. Combine the verbs with a variety of fruits to make up new variations. Then use your new Spanish phrases as you make your very own Spanish fruit salad, put it on a plato (plate) and eat it with a cucharo (spoon.)
Finally, por favor, do not leave your children with nothing more than these cheesy stereotypes of sombreros and mustaches. Look at pictures of real people in Mexico, like this one at a fruit market.
Have a Wiggly Spanish lesson!
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