Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1526 - 1593
The Gourmet Paper Maker
by Ellaraine Lockie
Rah, Rah, Radishes! A Vegetable Chant
by April Pulley Sayre
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
by Lois Ehlert
more ideas for a book display:
From Peanuts to Peanut Butter by Melvin Berger
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow
No Small Potatoes by Tonya Bolden
Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy
Three Perfect Peaches retold by Cynthia DeFelice
The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Apples by Jacqueline Farmer
Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer
The Zieglers and Their Apple Orchard by Alice Flanagan
Granny Smith Was Not an Apple by Sarah Glenn Fortson
The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons
The Princess and the Pea illustrated by Rachel Isadora
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
The Potato King by Christoph Niemann
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
Dragonfly's Tale retold by Kristina Rodanas
Tops and Bottoms retold by Janet Stephens
The Gigantic Turnip retold by Aleksei Tolstoy
also
Art History Kids - November 2021
Week 1 Project
Produce Portrait, p.13
Week 2 Project
Portrait Collage, p.14
Week 3 Project
Portrait Sculpture, p.15
Week 4 Project
Self Portrait, p.16
Week 5 Project
Vertumnus I Spy, pp.39-41
Food Faces ~ Giuseppe Arcimboldo inspired
Picture Books Illustrated with Potato Prints
Is It Cake or Is It Salad?
The New York Times - Aug 12, 2025
Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York
NPR - May 19, 2013
The Four Elements
Air
Fire
Earth
Water
The Encyclopedia of Artists
volume 1, pp.20-21
week of September 1:
Mon
- read Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements
look closely at fruits & vegetables using jeweler's loupes
(limes, peaches, grapes, watermelon, onion, shallot, kale, radicchio)
come up with analogies and write a collaborative poem of imagery... can your parents figure out which fruit or vegetable it is describing?
- what else does it look like?
what else does it remind you of?
The Private Eye Looking/Thinking by Analogy: A Guide to Developing the Interdisciplinary Mind by Kerry Ruef
Tue
-
choose papermaking activities from Ellaraine Lockie's book
week of September 8:
Mon
- read Tops and Bottoms retold by Janet Stephens
look at New York Times article Is It Cake or Is It Salad?
create a display of different kinds of lettuce
do "Produce Portrait" activity from p.13 of Art History Kids
(paper, colored pencils, watercolor-soluble oil pastels, Gelatos)
in the past, we have always done Pumpkin Portraits in the fall:
week of September 15:
Mon
- read
Hello, Fruit Face! The Paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Adventures in Art) by Claudia Strand
look at examples of Arcimboldo's work:
- in Hello, Fruit Face!
Spring, 1573
Summer, 1573
Autumn, 1573
Winter, 1573
Self-Portrait, ca. 1575
The Vegetable Gardener, ca. 1590
THe Librarian, ca. 1566
The Lawyer, 1566
Rudolf II as Vertumnus, ca. 1590
Earth, ca. 1570
Water, 1566
Air, date unknown
Fire, 1566
in
The Encyclopedia of Artists
Summer, 1563
shows the entire body of Summer and not just the head
do "Portrait Collage" activity from p.14 of Art History Kids
(magazines, scissors, glue, plain paper to use as background)
week of September 22:
Tue
- read The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
do "Portrait Sculpture" activity from p.15 of Art History Kids
(set out a white cloth and a variety of play kitchen foods)
week of September 29:
Mon
-
read the legend of Vertumnus and look at painting
(Heroes, Gods, and Emperors from Roman Mythology by Kerry Usher, pp.124-125)
do "Vertumnus I Spy" activity from pp.39-41 of Art History Kids
do "Self Portrait" activity from p.16 of Art History Kids
(have children work from a photograph of themselves)
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