What Can we Create With the Food in Our Lunchbox?

Materials:

• Plain cookies or crackers

• Peanut butter or jelly

• Children’s lunchbox fruits/snacks (raisins, banana slices, strawberries, grapes, seeds, etc.)

• Plastic knives

• Plates

• Paper and markers

Instructions:

• Invite children to look inside their lunchboxes and choose fruits or snacks they can use to decorate their cookies.

• Children spread jelly on the cookie. Then, they use the food from their lunchbox to create designs, faces, patterns, or pictures.

• After decorating, children draw their cookie creation on paper.

Powerful InterACTions - PK3:

• What food did you choose from your lunchbox?

• Where did you put it on your cookie?

• How does it look now?

• What shape do you see?

• What comes next?

Powerful InterACTions - PK4:

• What happens when you add more pieces?

• Where did you decide to place each food? Why?

• What pattern or picture do you see?

• How are the foods the same or different?

• What would you change if you made it again?