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Harvest Food Garland

Harvest festivals are celebrated by many cultures around the world. Students will learn about some of these holidays and create a fall harvest garland.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Paper
  • String

Steps

  • Step 1

    Ask students to investigate some harvest festivals celebrated in different cultures. For example, Sukkot is a seven-day Jewish festival during which people eat meals in a "Sukkah," a temporary structure that represents the huts that farmers would live in during the last period of the harvest. Chuseok is a three-day Korean harvest holiday during which people visit their ancestral hometowns and share a feast of traditional Korean foods. Dożynki is a Slavic festival observed in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and other Slavic countries.

  • Step 2

    Have students create a harvest garland. They can draw fruits, vegetables, and flowers on paper, then cut them out. Ask them to make a hole in each cut-out and attach them to a long piece of string.

  • Step 3

    Hang the garlands around the room so that everyone can enjoy a fall harvest bounty.

Standards

SS: Culture: Create, learn, share, and adapt to culture.

SS: Culture: Through experience, observation, and reflection, identify elements of culture as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups across time and place.

Adaptations

Ask students to look up some of the traditional foods eaten during harvest festivals such as songpyeon (pine cakes) and wanjajeon (meat patties) eaten in Korea during Chuseok, pickled cabbage eaten at Slavic harvest festivals, and stuffed foods (such as stuffed cabbage, potato knishes, and dumplings known as kreplach) during Sukkot.

Thanksgiving is a harvest holiday celebrated widely in the United States. Have students research the origin of the Thanksgiving feast as well as some of the controversies.