Make Farmer's Market Cards from Seed Catalogs

Don't throw your seed catalogs away yet! The pictures in our catalogs were so beautiful I just had to do something with them.

The kids and I love to go to farmers markets and shop.  They know common fruits and vegetables.  However, when I tell them we're looking for an eggplant, they don't know what to look for.  I decided to make them some picture catalogs by recycling our seed catalogs.

Using our seed catalogs, I cut out pictures of vegetables that we typically, and not so typically, purchase at the farmers market.  After gluing them to index cards and writing the name at the bottom, I laminated them.   

I think these cards will make fun shopping lists at the farmers market!

I'm also hoping that it will encourage them to try new vegetables.

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert is a great go along book.

We visited a farmer's market and took our cards with us in this post.  They worked great!