We took Grant strawberry picking. He wasn't too thrilled, so after about 10 seconds, we showed him that he could eat the strawberries out of the bucket, and then spent the rest of the time taking him up the row, putting him down, & letting him run back to get more strawberries from the bucket (fortunately for us & Jean's Berry Patch he didn't realize he could pull them directly off the plants himself...although he did enjoy taking a bite, then dropping the berry back in the bucket...)
Testing the first strawberry:
Several strawberries (& sprints down the berry row) later, we were glad that we'd put him in a red shirt:
Grant's going with the take-a-berry-and-run approach here (he suspects he's had too many strawberries by this point, or just knows the drill that Mommy's about to take him back down the row):
In case you were wondering what 8lbs of strawberries looks like:
