--- title: "Apple, avocado, custard apple: forty fruits and the words kids use every day" description: "Apple, avocado, custard apple: forty fruits and the words kids use every day. Ask a small child what they want and the answer is usually something to eat..." author: "Tahmina Yousafzai" published: 2026-11-04 canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/93548/apple-avocado-custard-apple-forty-fruits-and-the-words-kids-use-every-day category: "Early Learning" tags: ["kidszone", "fruit names for kids", "vocabulary for toddlers", "vehicles for kids", "preschool learning"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Apple, avocado, custard apple: forty fruits and the words kids use every day Ask a small child what they want and the answer is usually something to eat. Ask what they saw on the way to school and the answer is usually something with wheels. So it makes sense to build early vocabulary around food and vehicles. These are words children actually use, every single day. KidsZone has a picture page for each. This post is mostly about [Fruits](https://www.mindstick.com/kidszone/learn/fruits?from=little-learners), with a word about [Vehicles](https://www.mindstick.com/kidszone/learn/vehicles?from=little-learners) at the end. ## Forty fruits, real photos The Fruits page has forty fruits, and every one of them is a proper photograph. You can see in the screenshot how appealing that is: a glossy red apple, a bunch of yellow bananas, a halved coconut, a cut fig. Children recognise real food much faster than cartoon food, because it looks like what's in the kitchen. What I like most is that the list isn't only the fruits in Western picture books. Custard apple is there. So are gooseberry, guava, jackfruit and coconut. A child in India will see fruits from their own market, which makes the whole thing feel familiar rather than foreign. Tap a fruit and its name is spoken. The "Seen" tracker at the top counts how many of the forty your child has explored. ## Take it to the fruit cart The real fun starts outside. Next time you stop at a fruit cart in the evening, ask your child to name what they see before the vendor does. Point at the custard apple. Point at the guava. If they get it, great. If they don't, you've just found tomorrow's word. At home, keep it going in the kitchen. Ask them to fetch "two bananas and one apple" and you're practising counting too. ## From browsing to playing The two buttons at the top, **Play the quiz** and **Memory game**, turn the same forty fruits into games. And when the names feel easy, the [Word quiz](https://www.mindstick.com/kidszone/play/picture-quiz?topic=fruits&level=medium&from=letters-words) in Letters & Words uses fruits at a harder level, so your child moves from recognising pictures to recognising words. ## And for the vehicle fans Some children would rather talk about buses than bananas all day. For them, the [Vehicles](https://www.mindstick.com/kidszone/learn/vehicles?from=little-learners) page works the same way: tap a picture, hear its name. On your next drive, play "bus or truck?" and see how many they can call out before you do. Words learned on a screen stick far better once they've been spotted in real life. That's the whole trick, and it costs nothing. ## A small healthy-eating bonus There's a nice side effect here too. Children who know the names of many fruits are often more willing to try them. A child who has tapped "fig" and "guava" a few times is curious to taste the real thing. If you've been struggling to get fruit onto the plate, this is a gentle place to start. [Explore Fruits on KidsZone](https://www.mindstick.com/kidszone/learn/fruits?from=little-learners). --- Original Source: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/93548/apple-avocado-custard-apple-forty-fruits-and-the-words-kids-use-every-day Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.