Item-no.: 22377

Fruit salad

Healthy and colourful! Recognising different parts of fruit and putting them together to form whole pieces of fruit. Encourages colour and shape recognition.

Age: 4+

Number of players: 2-4

Contents: 62 wooden pieces of fruit in total

8 currants, each whole

3 strawberries, each in 2 parts

3 raspberries, each in 2 parts

3 gooseberries, each in 2 parts

3 cherries, each in 2 parts

3 plums, each in 2 parts

2 oranges, each in 3 parts

2 apples, each in 3 parts

2 pears, each in 3 parts

2 bananas, each in 3 parts

1 special dice with the numbers 1-3

Game idea: Marianne Ulrich

Illustration: Marianne Ulrich

Leonie and Michi are at the weekly market with their grandma. There’s so much to look at there. The two children love looking at the stands with the mounds of fruit in many different colours. The tables are laden down with the weight of oranges, apples and bananas. Grandma takes a big bag of different pieces of fruit home to make a beautiful, colourful fruit salad. Can you find which pieces of fruit Grandma bought? Who’ll be the quickest to sort out his pieces of fruit?

Very young children can put away the dice and use the pieces as jigsaws.

Game preparation:

Mix all 62 pieces of fruit well and place them on the table with the printed side facing upwards. Now, everyone takes turn throwing the dice. The first to throw the joker may begin the game and also throw the dice again straightaway.

The number of dots thrown shows how many parts of fruit a player may take. Each player should think carefully about which parts or pieces to take because the aim of the game is to finish as many pieces of fruit as possible.

In addition, the number of parts needed to finish a piece of fruit can help you win the game. It is important to look carefully and pay attention to gain points.

If the number 1 is thrown, a current may be taken (assuming there is one left on the table). It is now the next player’s turn.

Note: If you throw a joker, you may swap something. You may put one part back on the table and take another instead.

Variant: A more difficult version is to play with the pictures concealed.

The rest of the game is the same as described above but in this variant the 8 currants must be taken out first.

End of the game:

The game is over when there is no piece of fruit left on the table. The players show what they have collected. The points are awarded now. It is best to write these down on a sheet of paper. For each currant collected, the player receives one point since the current consists of just one part. For each piece of fruit that consists of two parts that have been put together correctly, the player receives 2 points. For each piece of fruit that consists of three parts, the player is given 3 points, but only if the fruit has been put together completely. There are no points for single jigsaw pieces left over.

The winner is the player with the most points.