Food and Learning?
by Kristin Miller on 04/18/16
Yes - we love learning with food. I mean, come on, how many times growing up were you allowed to paint with your yogurt??? Super fun!
From painting with our applesauce and ketchup, to smearing our yogurt, coloring on tortillas, learning the colors with our fruit loops cereal, scooping up rice, and making letters with our cheese and crackers. There are endless opportunities to learn using food. It is so practical and easy; and the best thing, the kids LOVE it (because they get to eat their "homework" - literally!)
5 Foods to Easily Learn with at Any Home:
1. Tortilla or Bread - Have your child build their fine-motor skills to tear the pieces apart. Then, color on them!
2. Thick Liquids or Foods as Sauce (Ketchup, Yogurt, Applesauce, Mustard, Jelly, ect) - Just for some messy fun, let your child finger-paint (or use a paintbrush) to smear these fun sauces around on thick white paper!
3. Foods you can Cook (spaghetti noodles, rice, ect.) - After they have cooled off, throw some noodles in a bucket (or rice). Give your child a cup, fork, and a spoon to stir. Creative imagination and pretend play will be sure to keep your child busy as they make some spaghetti or rice for you!
4. Snack Time Foods - Like crackers and cubed cheese - Use these to teach tons of learning skills, like letters, numbers, counting, and making shapes. Check out our other blog post specifically for ideas
HERE.
5. Breakfast Time Foods - Using a variety of cereals to teach learning concepts, such as colors, counting, making letters, and using to build fine-motor skills and literacy awareness!
- See more at: http://www.eteachingme.com/Mom-Blog.html?entry=food-and-learning#sthash.yvSzqBTg.dpuf
