The Very Hungry Caterpillar Fruit Salad

In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, as we know, the caterpillar eats through a lot of different foods before he turns into a butterfly. His Monday through Friday foods are, conveniently enough, all fruits, and could make a good fruit salad together. After and while reading the book, the caregiver and the children can practice counting, reading comprehension, and kitchen skills using the following fruits:
-1 apple
-2 pears
-3 plums (perhaps dried prunes)
-4 strawberries
-5 oranges (maybe clementines or another tiny citrus)

While the caregiver does the cutting, the children can sort and compare piles of the cut fruit, making more than/less than comparisons. It can also be interesting to discuss what happens the last day when the caterpillar eats a lot of junk food (hint: he gets a stomach ache) and how he felt better (he ate some leaves) and what happened after he ate all his healthy foods (he grew up and turned into a butterfly).

A little bit of lemon juice on the fruit will help keep it from turning brown while stored in the fridge, so it should keep for at least a day. If the kids eat the fruit salad again the next day, it can be a good opportunity to review the story.